Descripción del proyecto
Promover la igualdad de género en los ecosistemas de innovación
Los resultados de la innovación europea van en aumento; sin embargo, el acceso a las oportunidades de inversión sigue siendo desigual. La concienciación y la comunicación efectivas entre sectores e inversores son esenciales para cerrar la brecha entre los innovadores poderoso del norte y el oeste de la Unión Europea (UE) y los innovadores moderados y emergentes del sur y el este. El equipo del proyecto INVEST-HER, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende facilitar el intercambio de conocimientos y la colaboración para impulsar la próxima generación de empresas emergentes, con especial énfasis en las dirigidas por mujeres y en los inversores con conciencia de género. En el proyecto se identificarán las mejores prácticas, se llevarán a cabo actividades de desarrollo de capacidades y se elaborarán directrices para promover una UE más competitiva. Los socios del proyecto crearán un centro impulsado por la comunidad para elevar los territorios menos conectados a centros de innovación reconocidos.
Objetivo
European innovation performance continues to increase, yet inequalities, particularly in access to investment, are still noteworthy. There is a need to close the performance gaps, which are still visible between Strong Innovators (North and West EU) and Moderate and Emerging Innovators (South and East EU mostly).
A major asset to successful and sustainable business growth relies upon awareness and strong communication between innovative sectors and investors on available resources, their access and interventions by public/private funders. Improving networking between innovation ecosystems is key to the success of growing businesses and driving continued economic development.
INVEST’HER’s ambition is to foster knowledge-sharing and synergies between innovation actors, existing initiatives/projects in order to support the next generation of startups, with an emphasis on women-led companies and gender-conscious investors. These interactions will notably lead to best practices’ identification, capacity-building activities and guidelines. Strengthening and broadening an interregional collaboration hub will promote a more competitive EU and a more sustainable, inclusive, diverse and resilient world.
This will be done in a community-driven, cross-functional, cross-sectoral, multiplier based way, with partners bringing together communities of experts from different deep-tech sectors from around Europe and beyond. INVEST’HER will 1) transform less connected territories into recognized and attractive innovation valleys that pool and reward investments, 2) create bridges between EU innovation ecosystems increasing access to capital and investment in less connected innovation ecosystems and allowing local start-ups benefiting from foreign investments, 3) raise the number of gender conscious investors in Europe for support to women-led companies, 4) boost women entrepreneurship, especially in Moderate and Emerging Innovators offering them access to more funding opportunities
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