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

SUSCO Budapest is a two-day international conference on sustainable development, and the first in a series of similar events organised by the Antall József Knowledge Centre. The first edition, which is to take place on 2-3 October 2014 at Millenáris in Budapest, will examine sustainable development by summarising its primary objectives and recounting the history of its realisation.

The prosperity of the European Union relies on its ability to provide SMEs and industry with a favourable business environment and customised support to unlock growth opportunities. Stimulating cross-sectoral cooperation and innovation as well as helping SMEs to access finance, new industrial value chains and to go international are seen as key drivers. The potential of clusters and cluster organisations, notably in emerging industries, need to be better exploited to achieve this objective. The question of how to do this and how to team up with others will be at the core of this conference.
Source: clusterconference2014.eu

REECO Poland invites all interested persons for another, already the fourth, edition of International Trade Fair for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency RENEXPO® Poland, taking place on 23 - 25.09.2014 in Expo Centre EXPO XXI in Warsaw. In 2013 this was the meeting place No. 1 for the photovoltaic industry in Poland.
Source: renexpo-warsaw.com

Eurasia Region’s biggest startup event, Startup Istanbul will begin on 30th of September. Eurasia Regions’ leading startup, investment and entrepreneurship event Startup Istanbul, will bring entrepreneurs, founders, VCs, investors, top executives, decision makers and startups together. Startup Istanbul will host more than 1000 participants, 100 startups and 200 investors from over 40 countries including Turkey, Egypt, UAE, Israel, Azerbaijan, Poland, Greece and India etc. Startup Istanbul is the biggest gathering of international and top expertise in the digital business, focusing on international trends a nd leading regional startups.
Source: startupistanbul.com

The Continuous Innovation Network (CINet) is a global network of researchers and practitioners interested in sharing and developing their knowledge of and experience with (continuous) innovation in the widest sense of the word.

International Geek-Together presents yet another flourishing startup community, this time participants will be able to meet and learn about the startup scene in Portugal! Our guests in person and online will join us to talk about how the Lisbon and Porto startup ecosystems have been ramping up, how the whole scene look like, what their challenges and advatages are.
Source: startupcafe.hu

Lean Startup Circle Budapest are thrilled to announce that Yann Girard, the author of Perfectly Executed Startup will be with us on Aug 5! Yann is an entrepreneur, an author, a blogger and loves photography. He has started, run and advised several startups and worked in the VC scene in Berlin & New York for a while. In his talk he will introduce you to his most important learnings as an entrepreneur and an employee in the VC scene.
Source: startupcafe.hu

In accordance with the previously signed “Cooperation Program for the years 2013- 2014 between the Government of Hungary and the Government of Flanders in implementation of the Cooperation Treaty between the Government of the Republic of Hungary and the Government of Flanders”, a project generating scientific workshop was held in Budapest on June 25 organized by the Flemish Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), the Hungarian Academy of Science (HAS) and the National Innovation Office of Hungary (NIH).

Geneva, 23 June 2014. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world, has started to get ready for its second three-year run. Cool down of the vast machine has already begun in preparation for research to resume early in 2015 following a long technical stop to prepare the machine for running at almost double the energy of run 1. The last LHC magnet interconnection was closed on 18 June 2014 and one sector of 1/8 of the machine has already been cooled to operating temperature. The accelerator chain that supplies the LHC’s particle beams is currently starting up, with beam in the proton synchrotron accelerator last Wednesday for the first time since 2012.

CONNECT competition is now open!
CONNECT is an entrepreneurship programme financed by the European Commission and targeted at European new entrepreneurs starting up businesses with the potential to grow internationally.