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The Health-i Award offers the best talents in the health industry a stage to present themselves and their ideas. The finalists of the award will be selected in the three categories young talents, start-ups and companies and a high-caliber jury will select the winners at the award ceremony on 16 November 2017 in Berlin.

Be part of it and convince with pioneering spirit and innovative power. The application is open until 15 June 2017. Participation is free.

Go to the website for more information and the application. Apply now!

Discover Iran as the one of the world's biggest untapped markets. This program is directed at startups and SMEs to join the market entry and technology transfer program.

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Application deadline: 31.03.2017

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WhataVenture is calling for the Pitch im Paternoster 2017! Convince the CEOs of Austria's industry leaders in the area of Greentech.

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Application Deadline: 27.04.2017

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Bridging the subjects Organic Food, ZeroHunger and the Throwaway Society – the Global Entrepreneurship Summer School, this time on the topic "Food", is starting the application phase.

The application for this year´s Global Entrepreneurship Summer School (GESS) in September opens on February 20th, 2017. Within seven days students from everywhere in the world are invited to develop innovative and entrepreneurial solutions concerning the topic "Food". For the second time, the GESS will take place in three mega cities spread around the globe: Munich, Shanghai and Mexico City.

Munich, February 9th, 2017 – Food trends are a hot topic right now: Whether chia seeds, sea grass or insects - one food trend follows another and customer demands on the products are rising. At the same time, however, sustainability, hunger and limited resource availability are often overlooked: According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 795 million people are still suffering from hunger. Yet, our global food waste could feed three billion people every year. There have already been initial approaches to solving these global problems. The solutions, however, are still preliminary, as they usually lack innovation and the possibility of global scaling.

Our world population is growing and despite the latest technological advancements, food supply is still not guaranteed. "We must face the global "Food" problem and work together in international teams to develop innovative solutions that are scalable and sustainable," says Klaus Sailer, co-founder of the Global Entrepreneurship Summer School.

During a seven day period, interdisciplinary student teams will develop business models within the problem area "Food" which are economically viable and have a lasting positive influence on society. With the GESS, young and prospective entrepreneurs get the unique experience of achieving greater things together. Host is the Munich-based Social Entrepreneurship Akademie. Collaborating with Tongji University in Shanghai and Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico City, GESS will be taking place on three different continents - Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Application is open until April 17th, 2017 on www.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". The topic for the 10th anniversary is "Food"; www.globalsummerschool.org

Are you a Medical Device or Technology start-up looking to bring your product to market? Medtec Europe offers the perfect platform to showcase your innovation to the industry, and we are inviting a select number of the most exciting young companies to exhibit at the 2017 event free of charge as part of our Start-Up Academy. The Start-up Academy is an opportunity for innovative new businesses to showcase their latest products and technologies at the event through a free exhibition space, and have the chance to present to the market in our Start-Up Forum. For the chance to position your organisation at the forefront of the European medical device industry, send us a proposal by 31st January 2017! Winners will be announced in February 2017.

For more information go to medteceurope.com/europe/visit/start-academy.

Elevator Pitch BW is an event series for founders, startups and aspiring entrepreneurs initiated and organized by the initiative for start-ups and business transfer of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Housing Baden-Württemberg. Looking for the best founders in the county of Baden-Württemberg, the Elevator Pitch BW events offer stagetime for the participating teams to present their business ideas within three minute pitches to a jury and the audience. Participants have the possibility to win price money, receive feedback from the jury members and to socialise with other founders and entrepreneurs from their local startup scene.

Apply Now with your amazing idea! Application Deadline is the March 23, 2017 at noon. You can find more info at elevatorpitch-bw.de/events/mannheim-heidelberg.

You can also cast your vote for your favourite team at elevatorpitch-bw.de/events/mannheim-heidelberg!

The regional pitches will be held on March 30, 2017, at MAFINEX Technology Center (Julius-Hatry-Straße 1, 68163 Mannheim). Save the Date!

The Startup Lounge is your place to get inspired to create something new, to discuss great ideas while hanging out with cool people and to meet startups, students and creative minds in a laid-back atmosphere. Join us if you are into start-ups and want to build a network in the Rhein-Neckar area!

We are going to kick off 2017 with a special startup lounge as we will find and award the winner or the MCEI Seed Award! 

15 startup teams submitted their pitch decks by the January 15th deadline (some just before midnight!), most of which meet the eligibility requirements set forth in our call for the best University of Mannheim Startup 2016. Eligible pitch decks will be rated by a panel of independent external experts leading to three finalists, which will be announced on or around February 7th and will then receive invitations to pitch for the prize on February 14th at the Startup Lounge (from 7:30 pm), accross the street from the Mannheim Castle.

The final jury will include representatives of VC and law firms, the city of Mannheim and organizations that coach startups in the Rhein-Neckar region. After a brief decision period, the winners will be announced at the award ceremony.

The prize money (€ 10 000), kindly sponsored by the Heinrich Vetter Foundation, is meant to support the market launch of the startup’s product or service. All applicants will be eligible to join our new startup mentoring program in cooperation with the university’s alumni association, Absolventum.

JOIN THE EVENT ON FACEBOOK!

Date & Time: February 14, 2017 at 7:30pm

Location & full address: Cafe L3, L3 9, 68161 Mannheim

Apply now for your pitch! Deadline January 31. 2017!

For the first pitch series with focus on municipal economy. Pitches will be in Berlin and the winner will get coaching and access to the network.

Check out further detail at vku-innovation.de/innovation-pitch/.

UX:challenge A new interaction concept for the DB Information

What’s it about?

As a result of technological progress and rapid digitalization DB Station & Service wants to reposition the DB Information to better address the needs of its customers and employees. Deutsche Bahn has thus, in cooperation with StartUp Germany and the DAI-Labor of the TU Berlin, created the DB Information UX:challenge. The goal of the challenge is to identify and develop innovative UX-concepts for displaying information relevant to customers and employees.

Who are they looking for?

The competition is open for designers (Interaction-, interface-, UX-, communication desig- ners), developers, coders, information scientists, data experts or creative multi-talents. The DB is looking for both individuals and teams.

Why participate?

The three winners can expect...

• to improve work and travel for many people.
• a chance to win cash prizes worth a total of 14.000€.
• a unique reference for their portfolio.

For further information check the Website of the UXC and the attached information.

Students, research assistants and professors are encouraged to join the start2grow entrepreneurship competition 2016 -  a contest for people with an exciting business idea. Application is now open!

Start2 grow offers the following benefits:

• Free participation
• High prize money (30.000€ for the top 3 ideas)
• Special technology prize pool of 10.000€
• Support from over 600 coaches from the fields of economy and science
• A large network which supplies participants with useful contacts from economy and science
• Events like workshops and coaching
• Support in setting up a business plan, which is able to win over investors and decision makers

Start2grow is a competition which helps german founders to implement their business idea. More than 600 voluntary coaches will support participants with their expert knowledge and potential business contacts. Over 4000 teams have participated in the last 34 competitions and have presented their individual ideas and concepts. From these 4000 teams, 900 actually launched their venture and have been able to create more than 5200 jobs - a very promising ratio. Start2grow is the only german entrepreneurship competition which is certified by ISO 9001 for its quality management. It is an initiative by dortmund-project, belonging to the department for economic advancement of the City of Dortmund.

For more information regarding the application please visit www.start2grow.de.