Accelator Updates

Business Plan Aggregator
The call for companies to join the BPA is open until 31 July. Right now, the activities of the working group are focused on marketing, nomination of the panel of experts, preparation of pitch training and pitch videos, and organisation of the session at the EIT Health Summit.
 
Go Global/Go Global DigiHealth
Go Global Medtech has already run two out of five two-day workshop sessions, with the third one coming up in the next few weeks. So far, the focus has been on the EU market, but the next session will focus on the United States. In Go Global DigiHealth, the selection process is finished and the programme is ready to kick off after summer. Eight digital health companies from all over the EIT Health partnership have been selected to take part in a unique immersion programme in Silicon Valley in September.
 
Market Coach Network
The Market Coach Network (MCN) is a programme recently launched to build a European network of experts, who will support start-up acceleration, SME expansion and business creation out of EIT Health activities and projects. Initial steps include defining the global framework of the network, mapping available clusters in the consortium, listing categories of experts and identifying communication tools.
 

30.09.-04.10. Lisbon Vitality Festival: "Lisbon, city with rights, for all ages" (part of EIT Health Campus activities). The EIT Health international day is 3 October, and is dedicated to professionals, civil servants, VIPs and entrepreneurs.

23.-24.11. EIT Health Summit in Barcelona, Spain. Register your interest to participate here.

+++ Belgium-Netherlands: Business Plan Competition - The Business Plan Competition is being communicated to the ecosystem through the partners and the review process for BeNe is being set up.

+++ France: 27-28 June: Bi-lateral meeting CLC Spain – CLC France in Barcelona; June 27 – July 6: the Summer school Big Data for Healthy Living (IBD4Health) took place in Archamps-Technopole (France). It was attended by 24 students from 12 nationalities.

+++ Germany: 9 August, Accelerator Pitch Event on a ship: the German CLC will organize a Pitch Event on a ship in Heidelberg, where promising start-ups will present innovative healthcare solutions. The aim of the event is to select the German winners for the international EIT Health Business Plan Contest 2016, which takes place on 23-24 November in Barcelona. For more information, please contact Bodo Brückner (bodo.brueckner@eit-health.de).

+++ Scandinavia: The Scandinavian CLC is currently selecting nominees for the Business Plan Aggregator competition. CLC Scandinavia has finalised the selection process of the seven recipients out of the 30 qualified applicants for Head Start and Proof of Concept funding. The winners are all very much in line with EIT Health’s focus areas and have very high business potential.

+++ Spain: The Spanish competition to take part in the Head Start/Proof of Concept project closed on 6 June, with good participation. In the end, 41 Proof of Concepts (2 modalities) and 24 Head Starts were presented.

+++ UK-Ireland: The EIT Health Summer School on Innovation and Business Creation provides a creative learning environment for 36 students taking part in a transformational action learning experience, to help them develop the practical and transferable skills necessary for successful innovation. The programme took place in two different locations: 11-15 July at Trinity College Dublin and 25-29 July at IESE Business School Barcelona.

+++ InnoStars: The face-to-face assembly of InnoStars Members took place on 13 June in Munich; Local pitch training events and the finals of InnoStars accelerator competitions took place in the end of June/beginning of July in Wales, Portugal, Italy, Hungary and Poland, with over 70 applications. The 18 winners of the awards receive institutional support and grants to help them develop healthcare innovations.