The European Commission has selected 94 SMEs from 19 countries to each receive a grant of up to €2.5 million (€5 million for health projects) to finance innovation activities and the development of their business plans. The companies will also be entitled to benefit from up to 12 days of business coaching.
Source: ec.europa.eu

293 SMEs from 30 countries have been selected in the latest round of under Phase 1 of the SME Instrument. For each project, the participants will receive €50,000 to finance feasibility studies. They can also request up to three days of business coaching. For this phase, the Commission received 2,363 proposals by the third cut-off date of Phase 1 on 17 December 2014. 320 received an evaluation score above the application threshold and 259 or 81% have been selected for funding.
Source: ec.europa.eu

The ‘INNOVEIT 2015 – The EIT Innovation Forum’ combines a set of activities which were organised as separate events in the past: the EIT Stakeholder Forum, the EIT Awards, the EIT Roundtables and the EIT Alumni Connect event. During three days, INNOVEIT 2015 will bring together 600 participants comprised of start-ups, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, higher education and research institutes, EU, national and regional policy makers, as well as over 100 entrepreneurial students and graduates.

DRIVER's project partners Pôle Risques and ARTTIC organise an international workshop on Innovation for Crisis Management (I4CM). This event aims at sharing best practices between crisis management professionals from all over Europe. The objective is to support innovation by highlighting technological development needs and experimentation benefits; and enlarge the DRIVER Community. The DRIVER Community includes crisis management practitioners, policy makers, technology suppliers and the citizenry and will enable an intensive collaboration with and between these crisis management stakeholders.
Source: eurtd.com

A workshop dedicated to “Cliamte Techngologies Transfer to Developing Countires", organized by D’Appolonia with the support of the European Commission DG CLIMA, UNIDO and UNEP, will take place in Vienna on the 25th of March.

At a Startup Sauna Local Event, local early stage startups will receive honest feedback and advice from coaches, who are experienced serial entrepreneurs and investors. By impressing the coaches, attending startups have the opportunity to be shortlisted for the Startup Sauna acceleration program held during May 2015 in Helsinki, Finland.
Source: startupsauna.com

Stretch is a leadership and management conference to learn from the best and stretch yourself. Join us in Budapest, Hungary this December and get inspired by stories from leaders in great organizations as they talk about the challenges of leadership coming from within the team. This year we will invite great individual performers and great collaborators to show everyone how to stretch themselves. This will enable you to change your mindset and improve your soft skills to have a great impact on your teams, your communities and on your own life.
Source: stretchcon.com

Stretch is a leadership and management conference to learn from the best and stretch yourself. Join us in Budapest, Hungary this December and get inspired by stories from leaders in great organizations as they talk about the challenges of leadership coming from within the team. This year we will invite great individual performers and great collaborators to show everyone how to stretch themselves. This will enable you to change your mindset and improve your soft skills to have a great impact on your teams, your communities and on your own life.
Source: stretchcon.com

We’re proud to announce the European Chapter of the famous Page Fights landing page competition! Oli Gardner of Unbounce and Peep Laja of ConversionXL are back with German optimization wiz, André Morys of WebArts. Throw your landing page into the ring for the chance be crowned the first European Landing Page Champion and win a trip to Las Vegas with the European Startup Seed Investor, Traction Tribe. Deadline: 12.00 PM PST, 25th of November.
Source: traction-tribe.com

H. E. Junichi KOSUGE, Ambassador of Japan to Hungary and László Lovász, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences cordially invites you to the seminar „Material Research Strategy and Structural Materials in Japan” and the following reception to be organised as a distinguished event of the Hungarian Science Festival and on the occasion of 2014 V4+Japan exchange year.

H. E. Junichi KOSUGE, Ambassador of Japan to Hungary and László Lovász, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences cordially invites you to the seminar „Material Research Strategy and Structural Materials in Japan” and the following reception to be organised as a distinguished event of the Hungarian Science Festival and on the occasion of 2014 V4+Japan exchange year.

Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator is holding lectures at Stanford University called "How to Start a Startup" (CS183B). Over 130 cities and universities have signed up to follow along and stream the lectures together, as well as peer evaluate the projects. CEU Business School and Design Terminal are proud to host the online lecture series in Budapest on a weekly basis. We will watch and discuss the course videos together, their applicability for entrepreneurs in Hungary and CEE, and have live discussions with special guests about startups, entrepreneurship, technology, and everything in between. Date: November 6, 18:00-21:00. Venue: Design Terminal.
Source: startupcafe.hu

The Green Mobility Conference is a cross-sector event exploiting synergies between aviation and logistics with special focus on green and sustainable innovation. Target group are cluster associations, private companies, R&D institutions, public bodies and technical experts from all over Europe.
Source: greenmobilityconference.talkb2b.net

Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator is holding lectures at Stanford University called "How to Start a Startup" (CS183B). Over 130 cities and universities have signed up to follow along and stream the lectures together, as well as peer evaluate the projects. CEU Business School and Design Terminal are proud to host the online lecture series in Budapest on a weekly basis. We will watch and discuss the course videos together, their applicability for entrepreneurs in Hungary and CEE, and have live discussions with special guests about startups, entrepreneurship, technology, and everything in between. Date: September 25, 18:00-21:00, venue: Central European University,
Source: startupcafe.hu

Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator is holding lectures at Stanford University called "How to Start a Startup" (CS183B). Over 130 cities and universities have signed up to follow along and stream the lectures together, as well as peer evaluate the projects. CEU Business School and Design Terminal are proud to host the online lecture series in Budapest on a weekly basis. We will watch and discuss the course videos together, their applicability for entrepreneurs in Hungary and CEE, and have live discussions with special guests about startups, entrepreneurship, technology, and everything in between. Date: November 13, 18:00-21:00, venue: Central European University,
Source: startupcafe.hu

Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator is holding lectures at Stanford University called "How to Start a Startup" (CS183B). Over 130 cities and universities have signed up to follow along and stream the lectures together, as well as peer evaluate the projects. CEU Business School and Design Terminal are proud to host the online lecture series in Budapest on a weekly basis. We will watch and discuss the course videos together, their applicability for entrepreneurs in Hungary and CEE, and have live discussions with special guests about startups, entrepreneurship, technology, and everything in between. Date: November 13, 18:00-21:00, venue: Central European University,
Source: startupcafe.hu

The US Embassy of Budapest brings Robert Mitchell to the Prezi House of Ideas. Come and listen to Robert's presentation, learn from the pioneer of crowdfunding! Robert Mitchell is an entrepreneur and crowdfunding pioneer who has been involved with Crowdfund Investing since its inception. Date: September 25, 2014 at 18:30-20:00, venue: House of Ideas (Prezi HQ).
Source: startupcafe.hu

In response to the result of the vote on mass immigration held on 9 February 2014, the European Commission had suspended negotiations on Switzerland’s association to the Horizon 2020 package and Switzerland now has the status of a third country.

On 26 September 2014 the Commission will organise a “coordinators’ day” for coordinators of successful proposals. The purpose of the event is to explain the details on the preparation and signature of grant agreements.

Redefine conference will provide a platform for people that embrace today’s opportunities and, through their work, question the role and essence of design. Professionals whose hands-on experience is leading to different outputs, processes, scope, and territories for design. People who are inspiring the possibility for new definitions of design.
Source: redefineconf.com