EBAN is pleased to welcome you to an invitation only round table about Financial innovation for the Agri-food Sector, due to take place online on Wednesday 2nd December at 15:00 - 16:30 CET.  The workshop is powered by the EU funded project AgTech7, whose objective is to develop a MOOC covering a set of agri-tech farm-to-fork applications.    We aim to gather ~15 selected participants representing the financial, entrepreneurial, and policy spheres to brainstorm and analyze relevant financial instruments and case studies that can boost productivity and security in agri-food systems.  The discussion will be moderated by Prof. Panayiotis Ketikidis and Dr. Adrian Solomon and will consist of a guided group discussion on the relevant topics to cover in Module 3 - Financial Innovation for enhanced agri-food availability in funding and insurance. Should this opportunity be of interest, kindly reply to euprojects@eban.org with the object AgTech7 Deep Dive Workshop, and save the date on December 2nd!

The EBAN Institute - EBAN's new online educational initiative offering state of the art knowledge and best practices on how to professionally invest in startups as a business angel - is hosting its last masterclass of the semester on Exit Strategies and Executions. Led by Jesper Drescher, Danish Business Angel Investor of the Year in 2017, it will be taking place on December 3rd at 5:00 PM CET and organized in partnership with  DanBAN.

For the first time, GITEX Tech Week & GITEX Future Stars had a combined conference programme, bringing the best of both worlds – tech titans and startups – in one truly empowering agenda. It will be held on the 6th of December until the 10th of December in Dubai and it is organized by Dubai World Trade Center. This is where the world’s technology leaders, enterprises and startups come together to show you the future of every business and every industry, as it happens. Register your interest for Gitex 2020 and book your stand by following the next links:  

  "The World is Changing. I change too." Juan Alvarez de Lara , co-chairman of EBAN Impact and board member of EBAN,  will be part of #NordicImpactBusinessSummit debating global activities and trends around impact - the startups, the business models, the investors, the measurement systems, the most pressing climate problems… and much more. Anyone who wants to understand the impact ecosystem is encouraged to participate online 9th of December 08.30 - 18.00 CEST. The Studio Sessions, available for everyone, will feature a full day streaming program with leaders from the global impact ecosystem. The Matchmaking Sessions, for investors and business developers, will allow 200 investors to be matched with co-investors and Top 50 Nordic Impact Startups.  

DLT4All is an Erasmus+ project funded by the European Commission. Started in 2018, it is coordinated by the University of Nicosia and executed by 8 partners from 5 different countries. The project has developed an 8-modules innovative learning curriculum about Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies, targeted at students, entrepreneurs, investors and other players in the innovation ecosystem, such as incubators and business coaches. The course will be taught on virtual live classes by a set of Blockchain experts. Dates and Modules: 1. LM0 – Introduction to the course and to the DLT world - January 13th - 15th 2. LM1 – Peer-to-peer Database Design - January 18th - 22nd  3. LM2 – Encryption Techniques - January 25th - 30th 4. LM3 – Consensus Mechanisms - February 1st - 5th 5. LM4 – Digital Signatures - February 8th - 12th 6. LM5 – Smart Contracts - February 15th - 19th 7.  LM6 – Privacy and Property Rights - February 22nd - 26th  8. LM7 – Blockchain-based Decentralized Applications - March 1st - 5th  9. LM8 – Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - March 8th - 18th For more information on the days, timeslots and details, download this brochure. Join the Decentralization movement!

The Ideas Powered for business SME Fund, which opened for applications on 11 January 2021, is a 20 million EUR grant scheme to help EU SMEs protect their intellectual property (IP). Co-funded by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the European Commission, the SME Fund will grant IP Vouchers to EU SMEs in five separate grant windows throughout 2021 on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. Don’t miss the upcoming webinar ‘Ideas Powered for business Support Services for SMEs: What’s new in 2021’, for all your questions on the SME Fund. Join the webinar on 19 January at 10 am CET. More information can be found on the Ideas Powered for business hub.  

The online DEPO Startup Pitch event is scheduled for Wednesday January 20, 2021 at 5PM CET, where eight selected promising early-stage companies with a focus on CEE region will be pitching for three minutes each. Upon registration, you will get access to startup details as well as video-recordings and pitch decks after the event.

Female Founders invites you to the fourth Demo Day exclusively showcasing international female-led ventures on Thursday, January 21st from 3:00 to 4:30 PM. Ten startups from 5 countries and the fields of Media & Content, Enterprise SaaS, Consumer and ClimateTech present themselves in front of an investors community from all over Europe and beyond. Make sure to join!