The best 5 Italian science based Business Ideas have just been selected and will be competing at European level at the SCIENT EU Business Idea Competition (Cyprus, September 2017), together with the other 30 top ideas developed and selected among the other PhD SCIENT project participants from Portugal, Lithuania, Spain, United Kingdom and Cyprus.
The SCIENT educational pre-accelerator programme in Italy has been provided by CESIE, in cooperation with Consorzio ARCA (consortium for the application of research and the creation of innovative enterprises), offering different type of activities:
40 hours in-class teaching: 6 Module for 12 Learning Units:
- Innovation starts with You
- Innovation, research, technology transfer and entrepreneurship
- Get out of the building and test your customers
- Lean business Plan
- Protect your business idea
- How to pitch in front of investors
Study Visits to local enterprises and science research centres around the City of Palermo:
InformAmuse S.r.l. A spin-off of the University of Palermo operating in the area of ICT for cultural heritage fruition, developer of a number of state-of-the-art apps for iOS and Android for some of the most beautiful location in Sicily.
E.Lab S.r.l. Academic Spin-Off of the University of Palermo provides high-tech content integrated services about: Remote Sensing, Remote-controlled drones, GIS, environmental consultancy. Since 2009 the company addresses environmental issues with synergy, passion, dedication and commitment in order to supply its customers adequate planning, management and assessment instruments of environmental resources.
Securproject.It S.r.l. A consulting, technology and innovation company able to achieve outstanding results with lasting impact on businesses: one of the most effective security-oriented innovation enablers on the European market. We provide the essential ingredients that companies need to develop successful new technologies, services and products in a secure environment.
Italtel Designs, develops and implements products and solutions for networks and next-generation communications services based on IP protocol. In its offer are present proprietary products, engineering and network consultancy services, managed services and solutions such as VoIP, unified communications & collaboration, HD video, interconnect solutions, Next Generation Data Centre and Mobile Broadband solutions. SDN, NFV and WebRTC are among the focus areas of its R&D activities.
We would hereby like to thank all companies for their availability and the sharing of experiences on how to make it happen!
20 hours of Mentoring, including Creative Thinking, promotion the EU programmes that fund and support researchers and entrepreneurs, such as Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs (EYE) and H2020, Business Plan peer-review and coaching.
A glance on the Creative Thinking session!
International Internship abroad in an European research related company (40 hours/1 week) – exchanging entrepreneurial experiences, getting known the company and processes, participation in projects, research and other areas.
The learning path has come to an end for the learners, we would like to thank all students for their presence and interest!
For the learners the SCIENT experience is almost over, but the international partnerhsip is working to still improve the learning material that will be available in all partner language in the upcoming months.
Stay tuned!
Learn more about the project at euscient.eu or social at facebook.com/euscient
For further information on the Italian implementation, please contact research@cesie.org
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