For this fourth edition, we have created a brand-new section for you to "Get inspired" with a selection of French initiatives driven by Cap Digital and implemented together with its community.
Check all our lastest news and events here.
Happy reading 📖
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A "tipping" point for Europe
2020 should be remembered for some decades to come... For all European stakeholders involved in R&I, 2020 also corresponds to the end of a seven-year period. Numerous challenges have paced the EU 8th Multi-Annual Financial Progamme: the Brexit, a strong awareness of the ecological crisis or most recently this unprecedented health crisis. The new EU Research and Innovation programme, whose budget is still uncertain to date, should allow dozens of breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking great ideas from the lab to the market. In the meantime, the European Union has setup new tools to address the huge challenges to come: the Green Deal and the European Recovery Plan.
In parallel, Cap Digital has also faced many challenges, changes and successes over the last 7 years. With more than 40 funded EU projects since its creation, it has shown an increasing ambition to grow at the European level - under the impetus of its pro-European governing board - in order to offer more funding, networking and testing opportunities to its members. As an active member in 2 EIT KICs (Health & Digital) and NGI National Contact Point since 2017, Cap Digital has extended its network of partners to better inform and support its community. With flagship EU projects such as AI4Cities, DigiCirc, EIT Health Catapult and soon SUMITY, Cap Digital is definitely looking at the future in order to accelerate the transition to sustainable and responsible innovation.
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ENGAGE YOURSELF FOR CIRCULAR ECONOMY
DigiCirc First Open Call on Circular Cities
DigiCirc is a H2020 INNOSUP-01 project, that aims to support digital innovations for the circular economy. DigiCirc's first open call on circular cities is open until 14th January 2021. Don't miss the opportunity to get up to €60K per SME and integrate an intensive and innovative acceleration programme. To find out more about this call, join our next webinar planned on 16th December 2020 at 3.00pm.
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DEVELOP THE DATA PORTABILITY FIELD
DAPSI Second Open Call has been launched
DAPSI is a H2020 project aiming to empower internet innovators to develop technology solutions and services for the Data Portability field. For this 2nd open call, selected innovators can win up to €150K to develop Minimum Viable Products or solutions, get technical and business support, access to top infrastructure, promote their solution, network and find real deployement opportunities.
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MEET THE BEST-IN-CLASS EUROPEAN HEALTHCARE START-UPS
Do not miss the Final Pitch and Award Ceremony of EIT Health Catapult on 3rd December 2020
The EIT Health Catapult's Final and Award Ceremony will take place this year online during the EIT Health Summit Series event. The jury of experts will announce the winning start-ups in the Medtech, Biotech and Digital Health categories. Who is going to succeed to Sparing Vision, the last-year Catapult winner in the Medtech category who just raised €44M?
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ACCELERATE CARBON NEUTRALITY
Get ready for AI4Cities Call for tenders opening soon
AI4Cities, a H2020 PCP (Pre-Commercial Procurement) project looking for Artificial Intelligence solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality in cities, will launch its Call for tenders on 1st December. The three-phases project could bring up to €360K for your project to develop an innovative solution addressing cities' challenges in the Energy or Mobility sector.
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DEVELOP HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS FOR THE ELDERLY
Digital Health Entrepreneurs
Covering the fields of entrepreneurship and home care for ageing, the Digital Health Entrepreneurs project is dedicated to train interdisciplinary teams to develop healthcare solutions for the elderly using digital solutions. This year, training sessions are run virtually. Students from Aachen University will have the chance to exchange with French start-ups and experts (iPEPS, Hospitalink, CNRS, VitaDX, KapCode, Inria).
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INCREASE THE USE OF AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS
Shelf-Scanning Robot reaches its end
Supported by EIT Digital, Shelf-Scanning Robot aims to develop an autonomous robot with capability to scan the shelves in shops and detect anomalies (out-of-stock products, misplaced items, missing price labels or wrong prices). In December 2020, the project is scheduled to complete and the start-up partners of Cap Digital (MCq and Robotnik) will present their results.
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DISCOVER OUR FLAGSHIP PUBLICATION TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME
Digest of Cap Digital's Trend Book 2020-2021 is now available
Prepared with its 1000+ members and 120+ experts, Cap Digital has published its last Trend Book. Resilience, crossbreeding competences, inclusion, responsbile and impactful innovation, European digital sovereignty and end to a blind belief in technological solutionsim are some of the key words of this year's publication.
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A PROGRAM TO DISCOVER FRENCH START-UP ECOSYSTEM AND LAND ITS FUTURE JOB
How I Met My Start-up 2020
Organised together with the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, How I Met My Start-up has been a program run by Cap Digital for seven years. This edition proposed to 60 students and learners from Social Builder, Doranco and Simplon to meet up with five innovative, booming and recruiting start-ups (like Matrice or 3DS OUTSCALE). This was the occasion for them to virutally open their doors for the day, meet new talents, inform about their jobs or share their needs to recruit.
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A COOPERATION APPROACH TO IMAGINE TOMORROW URBAN INNOVATION
Urban Innovation Square will enter its 3rd phase
Cap Digital, together with the French Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Cerema, has launched an open innovation platform to gather all the French actors of urban innovation until the end of 2020. After the first phase dedicated to share knowledge and identify needs, the stakeholders have shared their solutions and tools for the urban innovation. The third phase will be dedicated to the construction and formalising of these tools.
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- Learn more about SUMITY, our EDIH project: In our last newsletter, we mentionned the preparation of this very ambitious project led by Cap Digital and aiming to accelerate the digital and ecological transformation of companies and territories in the Île-de-France and Hauts-de-France regions. Since then, we have made great progress: the website has been launched and the consortium submitted its proposal to the French Ministry of Economy for the first selection phase. Results should be known in the coming weeks. 🤞
- Discover the EIT Health Catapult finalists: This year, the EIT Health Catapult semi-finals were successfully held virtually on 21st to 23rd October. The event gathered more than 700 registered participants and showcased young European innovators & game-changes to investor community and prominent health players around three topics: Biotech, Medtech and Digital Health.
- Carlos Cunha is the new CEO of Cap Digital: He succeeds Patrick Cocquet, who is retiring after having led our collective since its foundation 15 years ago. Co-founder, former administrator, treasurer, Deputy Delegate and Director of Operations of Cap Digital, Carlos Cunha will carry out concrete projects designed by and for our community members, in the field of technological and social innovation and for the sustainable city.
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👏 Successes from our community 👏
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- Mirakl, a start-up specialized in software edition that enables retailers and manufacturers to develop their own market place, just achieved a $300M fundraising, the most important of the last ten years for a French innovative company.
- Tralalere, partner of the Mathia Education project, has been awarded by IMPACT EdTech for developing a 3D voice assistant case in mathematics learning.
- Emissive, specialist in immersive virtual reality experiences, completes its first fund raising of €2.9M with the Tech & Touch fund, managed of behalf of the French State by Bpifrance as part of the Future Investments Programme (PIA), Art Nova and HTC, a Taiwanese company.
- Adikteev, a French start-up dedicated to re-engagement technologies in the world of mobile applications, has been propelled onto the podium of the industry’s top players alongside Facebook and Google in the latest Appsflyer ranking, the world’s leading provider of mobile attribution and analytics solutions, which is a benchmark in the industry.
- Agdatahub raises €2.5M in equity capital from API-Agro and the Banque des Territoires, to provide France and Europe with a digital sovereignty tool in the agricultural sector.
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