How innovative are you? Beta-i Newsletter

How innovative are you?

I think that is okay if you don’t know how to answer that. I know I can’t, anyway, evaluate how innovative I am. But the latest ranking of Global Innovation Index 2019 places Portugal as the 32nd of the most innovative countries, with Switzerland in the first place, followed by Sweden and the United States of America in the second and third one. Bangladesh is number 116 and has already brought us SOLShare, the winner of Free Electrons 2018, and now 1st prize winner of the Empowering People Award 2019 by Siemens Foundation. SOLShare allows rural people to trade their electricity excess and make money out of the sun while empowering them. Congratulations, your work is definitely inspiring! This is how we get that the word startup holds a direct association with innovation. In fact, startups are becoming more and more as another piece of the rich and diverse tissue of economy. Take Portugal, for instance, where startups were in charge of 1.1% of Portuguese GDP in 2018 according to the data shared by Startup Portugal last week. As for Beta-i, startups are in charge of innovation, always, even during the summer. Check Under the Radar for our open calls and celebrations. See you soon! Best, Cristina Tomé

Under the Radar - 2 minutes or less reading (depending how fast you are)

Meet the ones open for Innovation We have high regards for corporates that decide to work with startups to accelerate their innovation. In the programs we run, we always partner with a set of companies that are willing to move forward with the help of a crazy bunch of startups. You can find out all about the Portuguese tourism entities launching the 2019 The Journey and how an Insurance company, a Hospital and a bank got together to launch Protechting. EatTasty: celebrating over lunch Founded in 2016, EatTasty has now received an investment of 1.1M euros and aims to expand in Spain. Congratulations to Orlando Lopes, Rui Costa and the whole team! The portuguese startup that delivers homemade lunches in the workplace is part of Beta-i’s alumni and has now delivered more than 140k meals in Lisbon and Madrid.

SOL Housing As each city is a living organism, any small change can have a major impact. And that is why SOL Housing was created. To boost the small changes that will improve each citizen’s live. As we have to start somewhere, we have started in Lisbon - check what SOL Housing is all about in this video. We like feedback As you may have noticed, we’re taking the summer to make some changes and experiments in our newsletter. It would be wonderful to know what you think! You can reply to this email with some words if you have something to share with us - even emojis are appreciated.

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23 APR 2016 Hack for good Lisboa, Portugal

The Hack for Good is a hackathon organized by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to solve problems with one of the great transformations of our time: the aging population. 

A unique event in Portugal, which will be placed in the same space experts in technological and social areas to find innovative solutions. If you have interest in social causes, join the doctors, managers, designers and engineers, and discover over 2 days of programming and development how you can help change the world!

http://www.hackathon.com/portugal/lisboa/hack-for-good-20941885744

KIC InnoEnergy Webinar - KIC – Knowledge Innovation Community - call from 15 JAN to 4 APR 2016

Projetos inovadores na área da energia

KIC InnoEnergy is looking to support innovative solutions in sustainable energy

 

A KIC – Knowledge Innovation Community está orientada para promover a colaboração entre indústria, investigadores e academia com o objetivo de amplificar o impacto da inovação produzida nestes domínios. Por áreas, centra atividade na energia sustentável.  

Para explicar melhor a call, que abre oportunidades de apoio no próximo ano, a KIC promove um webinar no dia 29 de janeiro, às 12 horas. As inscrições podem ser feitas a partir daqui. 

Achieving a sustainable energy future for Europe is a big challenge - Innovation is the answer.

KIC InnoEnergy is the innovation engine for sustainable energy across Europe and they are now set to launch the next Call for Innovation Proposals to help propel new innovations in the field.

This Call for Innovation Proposals helps to address the challenges that many innovators face in bringing their concepts to market and shorten the journey from lab to launch. Crucially it provides the investment, as well as partnerships and commercial skills, that are so often lacking and without which many concepts would never make it off the drawing board.

The 2016 Call will open between 15th January and 4th April 2016 and is encouraging applications relating to innovation in KIC InnoEnergy’s Thematic Fields:

• Clean coal and gas technologies
• Energy storage
• Energy efficiency
• Energy from chemical fuels
• Renewable energies
• Smart and efficient buildings and cities
• Smart electric grid
• Sustainable nuclear and renewable convergence

For more information on how to get involved, register now and hear directly from KIC InnoEnergy about how best to do so.

http://www.kic-innoenergy.com/

http://www.engerati.com/webinars/kic-innoenergy-looking-support-innovative-solutions-sustainable-energy?utm_source=External&utm_medium=PR&utm_campaign=Aspectus%2FKIC