Deadline: 18-Apr-23
Is your Start-up focused on Bioeconomy working within the Industrial Circularity bio-based sector? Join the Future of Industrial Circularity programme and get the chance to boost your Business solution.
The programme is running its third open call and is looking for around 65 European Innovators, involving start-ups, scale-ups, spinoffs and SMEs developing solutions in the vast bioeconomy circular economy sector domain. The Future of Industrial Circularity programme aims to support the innovators by enabling them to showcase their developments, access funding and networking opportunities that could take them to market.
BioeconomyVentures will organise three rounds of Open Calls (OC) for Innovators for identifying cutting-edge innovative solutions from across Europe under the framework of Bioeconomy in the following domains:
- Future of Food
- Future of Chemicals
- Future of Industrial Circularity
Benefits
- The Future of Industrial Circularity Programme will encompass the following services and value adding services:
- Access to the first bioeconomy platform for networking, partnerships and investment seeking,
- Business and Investment readiness training,
- Mentorship,
- Access to and ability to solve corporate challenges and explore long partnerships,
- Investor matchmaking,
- Value-adding reports and insights into bioeconomy,
- Public Funding access webinar and support,
- Access to events and workshops.
- Ready for Business – Pre-recorded webinars & e-learning courses
- Main circular bioeconomy concepts,
- Relationship between “knowledge”, “innovation” and the “(natural) environment”,
- Roadmap to “deploying close-to-market” products inside the biobased sector,
- The EU Circular Bioeconomy and its relationship with the KETs,
- The key elements of the Business Plan,
- Bioeconomy strategy overview,
- How to make an impressive pitch,
- Scaling up and access to pilot plant facilities’ costs and risks,
- Make my innovation scale-up bullet proof for investors.
- Investment Readiness Training
- Practical overview of innovation and internationalisation support networks for bioeconomy SMEs in EU,
- Why investor brand matters and how to make it work for you,
- Optimizing your access to capital: investors, grants, or crowdfunding.
What they are looking for?
They are looking for ambitious teams to address the corporate challenges with their innovative solutions, identified by corporates based on the following verticals:
- Forestry, Pulp and Paper
- Bioenergy & Biofuels
- Wood & Furniture, Building materials & constructions
- Bio-based Textiles and wearing apparel
- Food and Feed from side and waste streams
- Waste Processing & Up/Recycling
Eligibility Criteria
The following eligibility criteria apply to the Bioeconomy Ventures programme:
- Applicant
- Applicants can be natural person or legally established SMEs/Start-ups
- Applicants must be based in European Union countries or H2020-associated countries.
- Sector fit
- The applicants should have a main product targeting one of the domains indicated in the call they are applying to.
- The applicant should have a product/solution clearly answering one challenge listed in the open call they are applying to / or in case of applying without a challenge that they indicate a clear market challenge within one of the domains of Future of Industrial Circularity.
- The applicant’s primary product or service must present a scalable bioeconomy innovative solution/ or innovation.
- Motivation
- The applicant must be interested in cross-border collaboration.
- The applicants commit to participating in the Bioeconomy programme, including training, matchmaking, and promotional services.
- Team
- The applicant’s team members must demonstrate technical and business competence.
- At least one person from the applicant’s team has confirmed availability to participate in the entire programme.
- Prior BioeconomyVentures applicant status
- Each applicant may submit only one (1) application form for each BioeconomyVentures open call. Multiple submissions per call is a disqualification factor.
- An applicant may resubmit its application for subsequent open calls if the original application was unsuccessful.
- Applicants may participate in a maximum of one (1) accepted programme participation.
For more information, visit BioeconomyVentures.