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Apply for the venture contest 2009 semi-final in Budapest

Published on September 29, 2009 in Current events, eCommerce, Hungary and Venture capital. 5 Comments Tags: budapest, contest, entrepreneurs, European, event, final, hi-tech, ICT, Innovation, investment, vc.

A concrete opportunity for hi-tech innovative companies in Centrope is arising from the Eurecan European Venture Contest (EEVC) Semi Final hosted by ITD Hungary and NKTH in Budapest on October 28. 10 winners will get a free ticket to present themselves at the European Venture Summit in Düsseldorf on Nov 30 – Dec 1. They will also become a part of the EEVC Top 100, out of 25 most promising companies will be selected by a jury for the final in Barcelona (90,000 euros cash prize) in December.

The contest is organised by Europe Unlimited, our long-term partner located in Brussels, that has been working in this field for more than 10 years. Some readers may remember Steven Carlson and me assisting local companies from Hungary and Czech Republic to present their ventures at similar events a few years ago. This is where the efforts around the European Venture Forums turned into.

The EEVC aim is to identify, promote and reward the most innovative early stage companies in Europe with breakthrough innovation in ICT, Cleantech and Healthcare technology or services with international ambition and potential. 25 finalists will be selected within six semi-finals – to be held in Dusseldorf, Pamplona, Budapest, Turin, Luxembourg and Lisbon – and get a chance to network with investors, industry leaders and potential partners.
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Interested in research cooperation on Digital Content?

Published on May 7, 2009 in Current events, Czech Republic, eCommerce, eGovernment and EU funding programmes. 2 Comments Tags: "digital content", brokerage, communities, cooperation, discussion, event, FP7, R&D, research, web2.0.

On Thursday last week Gunther Krumpak and I were facilitating one of the discussion tables within the ICT Brokerage in Brno, the event co-organised by our FIRST Innovation Park. See Gunther’s post about the event. The second day consisted of interactive discussions divided into six tables according to the FP7 5th & 6th call’s challenges. Ours was dedicated to Digital Content, Technology Enhanced Learning and Intelligent Information Management.

We had an interesting bunch of researchers, companies, both experienced Framework Programme players as newcomers around the table. As usually the most useful talks happen with those you choose (or who choose you) for coffee conversations. We have also distributed copies of two documents that may be also of your interest – the relevant part of the FP7 workprogramme and the examples of projects funded under FP6 or FP7 1st call. By the way the 4th ICT call (closed on April 1) attracted in total 1267 project proposals – 954 STREPs 954 and 172 integrated projects (IPs).

If you are interested in international R&D projects around building virtual communities, Internet application including web 2.0 and social networks and if you are looking for a partner in the Czech Republic for 5th or 6th call proposals, feel free to contact us.

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Internet World 2009 in London

Published on April 10, 2009 in Business innovation and Current events. 0 Comments Tags: england, event, london, trade fair, vienna it enterprises, vite.

The Austrian Federal Economic Chamber in London has organised together with VITE a trip to visit the promising Internet World 2009, taking place from the 28th to the 30th of April in the capital of the United Kingdom (London). A one-day fact finding mission will complete the programme in England.

Most of you might know that London is by far the most important IT location in Europe, thus I think this is a very interesting event to find out more about this market, new trends, technologies etc.

As I will also be there as a representative of VITE, I wanted to ask whether someone has already been at this fair. I would appreciate if you shared your experiences and impressions with us! Or will anyone visit the fair this year as well? If yes, which expectations do you have?

In general: do you think that due to the current economic crisis we should more than ever concentrate on larger markets?

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Coming to Budapest for the ICT Proposers Day?

Published on January 17, 2009 in Current events, EU funding programmes and Hungary. 2 Comments Tags: call, Centrope, cooperation, event, FP7, ICT, ideas, Innovation, media, meeting, reputation management, research, smes, social networks.

On Thursday, Jan 22, the ICT researchers and innovative companies are going to meet at a large event in Budapest. The ICT Proposers Day organised by the European Commission’s Information Society and Media Directorate-General, in cooperation with the Hungarian National Office for Research and Technology, should help them to form FP7 consortia for the 4th upcoming call and especially the SMEs from Centrope countries have a unique chance to network with their peers.

Already now you can browse research ideas on the web and add your own presentation (by Monday noon). I may attend for example Computational trust and reputation management, CrowdSourcing with Logica or Advanced Social Networks covering projects integrating social excluded groups, a new generation of on-line games, education & training and content aware networks & network aware applications.

If you are coming to Budapest, let me know at vesely@park.cz and we could have coffee together while discussing how CITT can help you to find the right partner in the region. Moreover it’s always nice to see faces behind your comments.

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Event: “Visual Computing Trends 2009″

Published on January 8, 2009 in Austria, Business innovation and Current events. 0 Comments Tags: Austria, Business innovation, event, ICT, it, trade fair, vienna.

Please note that on the 28th of January not only the IT’n’T fair (27th to 29th) but also the very interesting event “Visual Computing Trends 2009” takes place in Vienna.

Those who come to Vienna could take the chance and visit both events!

Would be nice to see you there, Participation is free.

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The European Venture Contest semi-final results

Published on November 14, 2008 in Current events, Czech Republic, eCommerce, Hungary and Venture capital. 0 Comments Tags: biotechnology, business plan, contest, event, hi-tech, presentation, semifinal, software, venture, Venture capital.

On Monday I had a chance to participate as one of the reviewers in the European Venture Contest semi-final held in Prague. As I announced earlier here there was seven semi-finals all together taking place in Brussels, Stuttgart, Linz, Copenhagen, Pamplona, Eindhoven and Prague, each picking up three most promising hi-tech companies for the final to be held in Barcelona on December 17 with the cash prize of 90,000 euros.

So who won in Prague?

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