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!

Seed&Click and 080 Barcelona Fashion Consorci de Comerç, Artesania i Moda de Catalunya are hosting the fourth edition of their #080FashTechTalk, a free webinar on January 28th 2021 at 5:00 PM CET. Alba Garcia Betorz & Anna Cañadell, CoFounders at BCOME, will be discussing how Environmental Impacts act as Drivers of Change in the Fashion Industry.