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Dear partners,
Hopefully the European Union is going through an unprecedented sanitary, social and economic crisis, which might lead to a sharp increase of Euroscepticism in public opinion. Despite the fact that the future of the Union is at stake, Cap Digital is working hard to develop new European projects, together with our partners, to fight against this new challenge, to maintain the European spirit and to contribute to the emergence of a new future.
Our team is mobilizing itself during this difficult period by creating a dedicated crisis unit to best respond to the needs and requests of our members, and by promoting solutions from our community. Joining our forces to enhance a digital and ecological transition, could play a major role in our continent in the post-Covid period.
In parallel, the current situation should not reopen a political and budgetary fight on the Green Deal. Pillars of what was at the heart of the Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen’s project, are still pending today. The Commission, in the process of revising its long-term budget proposal for the 2021-2027 period, still considers that the fight against climate change must guide investments in the years to come. Cap Digital and its team plainly advocate and support the Green Deal ambition.
> Check all our lastest news and events here
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ACCELERATING CARBON NEUTRALITY
Save-the-dates to contribute to zero-carbon transition
AI4Cities just launched its Open Market Consultation. The OMC aims at actively approaching the market to find out about the state of the art, as well as future developments - in this case, in the fields of AI technology and climate change. On Thursday the 28th of May, the consortium invite you to a webinar to present the AI4Cities project, through which it is running a pre-commercial procurement process (PCP) to challenge suppliers to develop AI solutions for the mobility and the energy sectors that aim at reducing CO2 emissions. The following webinar will be organized by Cap Digital on the 23rd of June (in French) to present the project to local authorities.
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🔎 Our European Projects 🔎
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A NEW H2020 PROJECT TO BUILD 'THE DAY AFTER'
DigiCirc
We're proud to announce the launch of DigiCirc project this May. DigiCirc is a H2020 INNOSUP-01 project gathering 11 partners and aiming to boost the circular economy using digital tools by supporting very innovative SMEs in the development and marketing of solutions, products, processes based on circular value chains in different sectors and different countries. 2,4M€ will be distributed to 90 SMEs which will be selected through Open Calls. The winners will participate in one of the three acceleration programs on Circular City, Blue Growth and Bioeconomy.
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EIT HEALTH ACCELERATOR PROGRAM
EIT Health Catapult
EIT Health Catapult, coordinated by Cap Digital since 2017, has become more and more successful. Recognised as one of the best training and competition program in medtech, biotech and digital health, EHC boosts the development of top-notch European start-ups (42 per year) through exposure to leading experts and international investors. In 2020, Cap Digital has launched a new service, the Alumni Booster, a follow-up program in deal negotiation delivered by a group of investors for the Catapult Alumnis, supported by a new-established high-level Advisory Board.
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EIT HEALTH INNOVATION PROJECT
ROLINER
This project combines academia (Imperial College London), science (GE Healthcare) and industry (Cap Digital) for the development of a game-changing adaptive wearable for prosthetics lower limbs. The solution, AI controlled and with adaptive robotics technology, understands the daily changes in the body and adapts to them allowing amputees to control their prosthetic fitting via their mobile phones.
Roliner is introducing a new paradigm in the way it is made, and will provide a real impact that will change lives of millions of people.
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Cap Digital called for 50% of EU fundings for SMEs: alongside other clusters and associations in Europe, Cap Digital signed an open letter asking that 50% of the European funding should be dedicated to Digital Innovation in order to benefit the start-ups and SMEs.
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182 proposals submitted to DAPSI 1st Open Call - the NGI Data Portability and Services Incubator! A big thank you for the effort to everyone that contributed to this success and to innovators that applied. Winners will be notified about the evaluation process in June.
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Welcome to Mélanie, Margot and Alvaro in Cap Digital’s Europe team! Our organisation was recently enlarged with new forces to support the development and implementation of new European projects.
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👏 Successes from our community 👏
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- Epiconcept, a French medical company member of Cap Digital, has just won the European project Project I-MOVE-19 as leader: 3 years, 20 partners and 2.6M€ to boost research, prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Wefight is one of the start-ups who won the first round of Bridgehead Europe, a EIT Health programme that aims to providing support to European start-ups to expand their business beyond home markets!
- Alan raised €50M to unify the French Health sector! This start-up offers 100% supplemental health insurance online to companies, and it has raised 50 million euros to strengthen its offer and to grow its business in other European countries.
- Back Market raised $110M for its refurbished device marketplace. The company will expand its quality control team and introduce new services around refurbishments in order to control a bigger chunk of the stack.
- Whoomies, DeeWee, Sitowie and 10 other start-ups members of our ecosystem are among the top 100 start ups to invest in 2020 from the magazine Challenges. More information here.
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