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You belong to the European startup avantgarde who fights for a sustainable world without waste? Help turn the linear into a circular economy with your green business idea and apply to the Green Alley Award, Europe’s first startup prize promoting digital circular economy solutions, recycling innovations and ideas for waste prevention. Applications including a customized pitch deck must be sent until 1st July 2018 via an online form at www.green-alley-award.com. The offer: At the finals in Berlin, six startups will meet high-ranking expert practitioners in one-on-one mentoring sessions and pitch their idea to a great network of partners in the European circular economy and startup sector. The one and only Green Alley Award winner receives 25,000 euro in cash. A new asset this year: one applicant will win the Seedmatch Crowd Award including the chance to start the perfect crowdfunding campaign. Don’t miss out on boosting your green business across Europe!
Find out more about the Green Alley Award at www.green-alley-award.com.

What will the future of work look like? That could be up to you.

The upcoming “Hack-a-bot” Merck Hackathon in Darmstadt gives you the chance to build a solution to one of five key challenges around automating manual work at Merck or in the healthcare industry using bots!

Within 24 hours, you could be on the way to implementing your idea for real!

• When? 2-day event on June 15 and 16
• Where? At the new Merck Innovation Center in Darmstadt, Germany
• Who? Merck, Microsoft, University Clinic Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) and You!

Apply now and take part in the biggest Merck Hackathon so far to create solutions for the future of work.

EPC 2018 is a live trans-border pitch up competition across India (Mumbai) and Germany (Heidelberg) for startups designing innovations with a social impact, and translation technologies. Through this event, startups get a platform to pitch their ideas to a wide range of experienced entrepreneurs and investors from India and Germany; seek mentorship from them; publicize their ideas; understand the Indian legalities to set-up their enterprises; and a chance to win cash-prizes. As your incubation-center supports many exciting startups, thus through this mail, we'd like to invite the startups mentored by your centre to apply their ideas to us at EPC 2018.

Why to participate in EPC 2018?

Platform: This event provides a unique platform to present your ideas, or showcase your startup to German and Indian investors; and chance to win cash-prizes.
Seek mentors: Get a chance to have tête-à-tête conversation with seasoned entrepreneurs from both the countries. This is an excellent occasion to seek mentorship for your startups, or get valuable feedback on your ideas. India is the world's third largest consumer market. German startups can tap on this opportunity, seek advise from entrenched entrepreneurs on how to venture into the Indian market and understand the Indian consumer behavior right from the people who have led several successful startups in India.
Understand the legalities to set up your company in India: Officials from the consulate general of India in Germany will be present at the event. German startups that are eager to enter the Indian market can get into contact with the specific authorities so to advance their understanding of the Indian legal system.
Translate your ideas, or learn from others: This is beneficial especially to the startups that would like to franchise their ideas in India.

When and Where?
EPC 2018 will be held on the 7th of July 2018 in Heidelberg (11.00 CEST - 8.00 CEST) and in India (14:00 – 21:00 IST) at the conference center Technologiepark Heidelberg – BioPark Im Neuenheimer Feld 582, 69120 Heidelberg

About the organizers:

Heidelberg Indian Students Association (HISA) is a non-profit student organization established in the year 2003 in Heidelberg, Germany, and has been working from last 15 years towards the welfare of the Indian students and community. Presently the organization has more than 500 Members from the Uni-HD, EMBL, MPIs, and from companies like SAP and BASF

Bluebilities GmbH is a Berlin based startup, which focuses on helping companies to open new channels for accessing international talent in Germany and Europe through www.bluebilities.com, using a combination of a unique referral mechanism, talent database and active sourcing. In collaboration with its partners Bluebilities is creating international talent bridges that allow the flow of ideas, competencies and investment.

Z Nation Lab provides an ecosystem to tech-entrepreneurs and startups to help them accelerate their growth. It brings together high-quality mentors, subject matter experts, experienced professionals, investors and VCs under one roof to curate a community that offers an environment for innovation to thrive. With head-quartered in Silicon Valley, USA and office in India, Z Nation Lab helps startups expand globally. Z Nation Lab invests seed capital in early stage startups.

The OGV Entrepreneurship Programme is a week-long start-up boot camp of practical business training on innovation, IP and entrepreneurship, hosted on the premises of Saïd Business School, Oxford University.

The course is designed to fast-track students to business launch in just a week with our agenda of world-leading business speakers, practical workshops and a final pitch for investment at our PitchFest event. It offers great value for aspiring entrepreneurs worth up to £30K: https://www.oxfordglobalventures.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Value-PDF.pdf

European students can avail this opportunity at half the cost of our regular fees for professionals (£1450 only versus the standard £2950). We welcome applications from both undergraduate and postgraduate students of any academic background, as long as there is a passion to start a business. Students may have a business idea already, or they may wish to explore our curated and commercially viable IP to develop their plan.

Registrations are now open but places are limited. For more information and to register interest, please visit: http://www.oxfordglobalventures.com/registeror email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to book the next available date.

The "Gründerwettbewerb – Digitale Innovationen" is an ideas competition organized by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). There are two rounds of this competition every year. At award ceremonies, the eleven-member jury, comprising experts from business, finance, and science, each award up to six start-up ideas with prizes of up to € 32,000 each. In addition, up to fifteen other start-up ideas receive € 7,000 each. The special prize "Smart Living" of the current round is endowed with 10,000 euros. The award ceremony of the first round of 2018 will take place in autumn at the IFA in Berlin. All participants receive a written assessment of their founding ideas on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and risks.

Further information on the startup competition at www.gruenderwettbewerb.de.

What is IUIA

International Universities Innovation Alliance (IUIA,国际大学创新联盟) is a Chinese organization, which focuses on connecting young entrepreneurs worldwide to the Chinese market. It launched in 2015 with support from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Technology. Its Mission is to support international start-ups financially and operationally, to accelerate their business and to help them connect with the biggest market in Asia. In Germany, IUIA offers cross-border acceleration services for excellent start-ups. It co- incubates and invests in young entrepreneurs and ideas with great potential on the Chinese market.

What is „IUIA Innovation Awards“

A Program: The „IUIA Innovation Awards“ is a „Competition + Boot Camp“ program in a larger sense.
A Label: The „IUIA Innovation Awards“ is a „China Label“. The winning start-ups can show it as a proof of their great potential on the Chinese market.
A Channel: The „IUIA Innovation Awards“ discovers and rewards excellent german start- ups and helps them prosper and grow in an global context. 
2018 IUIA holds its 1st IUIA Innovation Awards in Germany.

Organizer: IUIA COSDF (China Oversee-Educated Schlolars Development Foundation)
Co-organizer 2018:Unibator (Geothe University Business Incubator Frankfurt am Main)

Who Can Apply

Start-ups with an academic background(alumni, student, researcher, drop-out...) Regardless of whether you are student or not. Regardless of whether your company is registered or still in establishing.

All start-up teams in Germany that meet the following 3 criteria can apply for the awards:

1. Interest in Chinese market. Wish to expand into China sooner or later.
2. Age: under 39
3. Project in the following 7 categories: Energy / Mobility / Med&Health / Fintech / Artificial Intelligence / Blockchain / Mechanical Engineering in general

Benefits for the Winners

1) Prices:
1 x 1. Prize, 15.000 Euro
2 x 2. Prize, 10.000 Euro per team 3 x 3. Prize, 5.000 Euro per team
2) Innovation Boot Camp in China: One team member of each winning team Chance to get closer to investor, partners and clients in China. Travel expenses covered by IUIA.
3) IUIA Innovation Awards Certificate: The „China Label“ of your start-up product. International branding tool. Your proove of market potential in China in front of investors, clients, competitors, and partners.
4) Exhibition: The winning projects will be presented in all IUIA Innovation Centers in China (in total 6 persons) will be invited to China.

Timeline

13. May 2018: End of Application
20. May 2018: Announcement of 12 finalists
1. June 2018: Final in Frankfurt
25-29 June 2018: Boot Camp in China
5-8 July 2018: Cambrige Final* (optional)
*The winners in Germany will be invited to participate in the European Final in Cambridge.
*Details about the Final (Demo day) in Frankfurt will be sent later to the 12 selected finalists individually.

Evaluation Criteria

• Innovation and elaboration
• Technological state of the art
• Practical utility and benefits
• Compatibility with the chinese market

How to Apply
No application fee.
You can click on this Apply buttom to apply on our F6S website. http://www.iuiaawards.com/
Or you can send the following application documents to our contact person Dr. Miao Xu
1) Profils of the founders 
2) Pitch deck (max. 20 PPT-Pages) including relevant elements of Business Plan 
3) A short statement (max 500 words) explaining why you think that your product has potential on the chinese market.
*If you have more materials that you think would help you win, please also send us (Videos, road map, etc.)
* If you need an extra confidential agreement for your application documents, please contact us.
Your application will be treated highly confidentially.

Contact

Please send your application documents per email to
Dr. Miao Xu (IUIA Managing Partner in Germany)
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Phone: 0049(0)17661544708
Web: http://www.iuiaawards.com/
If you have any question, please don‘t hesitate to contact us.
Looking forward to receiving your application !

This years topic for the GESS is 'consumption'. Apply now for solve the challenge of consumerism. Cities this year include Munich, Cape Town, Mexico City and Shanghai.

http://globalsummerschool.org/

About the Global Entrepreneurship Summer School

The Global Entrepreneurship Summer School (GESS) is organised by the Social Entrepreneurship Akademie in cooperation with the four entrepreneurship centres of the universities in Munich (UnternehmerTUM, Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship, LMU Entrepreneurship Center and Center for Technology and Innovation Management), their partner universities Tecnológico de Monterrey and Tongji University and their global partner SAP Foundation. Since 2008, GESS has been bringing together outstanding students from all over the world to develop entrepreneurial solutions under the claim "Billion Dollar Projects to Foster Societal Change". www.globalsummerschool.org

The Deeptech4goods#Paris competition is organized by Scale EUp², which is led by 4 innovation hubs from Germany, France, Austria and Spain, working together to identify high potential Deep Tech startups.

The Scale EUp² Program aims to support European Deep Tech startups in the field of “Smart Cities”, “Smart Mobility”, “Industry 4.0”, and “Smart Health” to:

• Accelerate growth
• Cooperate with major European corporates
• Raise funds from European investors
• Attract public funding for their innovation and R&D projects
• Attract talents, reinforce their skills and strategy
• Get higher visibility

You are a Deep Tech startup developing disruptive technologies targeting one or several of the above markets?

Become one of the 20 finalists of the Deeptech4good#Paris event:

• Pitch your project, meet European VCs and attract private funding
• Meet corporate players and create business opportunities
• Participate to collaborative projects emergence and attract public funding for innovation and R&D projects
• Participate to the Scale EUp² Program if you are among the 4 final winners

Apply Now!

Closing of application: March 30th, 2018

https://www.f6s.com/deeptech4goodparis/apply

More information at:

https://www.steinbeis-europa.de/scale-up_eu2_en

The Vetter Pharma GmbH and the bwcon Innovation Academy invite you to develop new ideas for all injection-related processes in a co-creative process. Using the design thinking innovation method, you will rethink all steps in an interdisciplinary team of students, health workers, developers, and employees.

In the end, there is the prospect of 10,000 euros in prize money for the winning team and the opportunity to continue the idea together with Vetter.

Participation in the innovation process is free. To attend, you do not need any specific prior knowledge. Interested parties can apply until 31.03.2018 at this link. The final selection of participants is expected to be announced at the end of May 2018.

Further information about the Vetter Open Innovation Challenge can be found here. 

4th Edition of the European Universities and Graduate Schools Championship

April 12, 2018!

More info at http://www.morpheuscup.com/.