Descrizione del progetto
Promuovere la parità di genere negli ecosistemi dell’innovazione
I risultati dell’innovazione europea stanno migliorando, ma l’accesso alle opportunità di investimento è tuttora caratterizzato da disuguaglianze. Una consapevolezza e una comunicazione efficaci tra i diversi settori e gli investitori attivi in tal ambito sono essenziali per colmare il divario tra i forti innovatori dell’UE settentrionale e occidentale e quelli moderati ed emergenti presenti nella parte meridionale e orientale del continente. Il progetto INVEST-HER, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di facilitare la condivisione delle conoscenze e la collaborazione al fine di potenziare la prossima generazione di start-up prestando particolare attenzione alle imprese guidate da donne e agli investitori attenti alle questioni di genere. Il progetto identificherà le migliori pratiche, condurrà attività di sviluppo delle capacità e svilupperà linee guida allo scopo di incentivare la competitività dell’UE. I partner di INVEST-HER creeranno un hub guidato dalla comunità per sviluppare i territori meno collegati in poli di innovazione riconosciuti.
Obiettivo
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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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinatore
1000 Sofia
Bulgaria