"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!

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.

The GALACTICA Hackathon is open to start-ups and SMEs as well as to university students based in European Union or United Kingdom. GALACTICA seeks innovative solutions to combine the aerospace and textile sectors with advanced manufacturing is expected, in order to re-shape value chains and business models, fomenting cross-sectoral and cross-border partnerships. All participants from the first round will be invited to three ‘free-to-access’ workshops from experts on technological and business topics. The ten finalist teams will also be invited to an additional workshop and mentoring during the two-day Hackathon. The first round will take place from February 9th to February 25th, 2021 as an online virtual challenge on open innovation. The GALACTICA hackathon will award 50.000€ in prizes, distributed in 25k€ for wining SME/Start-up team and 10k€ for the runner-up. On the other side, winning team of students receive 10k€ and the runner-up 5k€. The registration for the GALACTICA Hackathon is now open through the website until January 29th, 2021.

Baltic Tech Ventures is excited to invite you to the investor pitching session where you will have a chance to hear from SIZZAPP, another brilliant company from their portfolio. The session will be joined by a famous MotoGP racer Karel Abraham who actively uses SIZZAPP and supports the company's growth. SIZZAPP is a simple smart device that connects your vehicle to an app and allows you to track its location and technical condition while staying connected to the community of drivers and service providers. SIZZAPP is about building a complete ecosystem for drivers around the world and has already attracted 500 active users in 31 countries.  The company has generated revenue of €5,000 and has partnerships with the largest dealerships such as BMW, Harley Davidson, Toyota, Lexus, Yamaha, etc. SIZZAPP is raising €250k at the discounted valuation of €2 million for BTV investors. Another €250k funding is already committed by other investors. Contact lm@baltictechventures.com in order to get the pitch deck.