Project description
Mentoring, coaching, support for startups
Building on the excellence of European blockchain high-growing innovations is a top priority to ensure that startups shape and offer high-tech solutions to address public challenges and business needs. The EU-funded B-HUB FOR EUROPE project will provide to blockchain startups, accurately identified and recruited in five ecosystems in Italy, Germany, France, Lithuania and Romania through dissemination and engagement initiatives, a set of customised, expert-based services. The aim of these initiatives is to accelerate business perspectives, provide mentoring and coaching, support access to finance and improve cross-border networking with the broad EU blockchain community. B-HUB FOR EUROPE will boost matchmaking and co-creation processes between blockchain startups, public organisations, corporates and SMEs to address specific market needs. The project will also contribute to the ongoing efforts for a more favourable regulatory framework in the blockchain domain in Europe.
Objective
B-HUB FOR EUROPE will target deep tech vertical startups in the blockchain domain. The initiative is aimed at: discovering high-potential innovations, shaping suited proof of concepts and business models, providing specialised acceleration services to overcome current market barriers and assist the go-to-market process, unlocking new market channels with potential private/public customers, scaling up innovative businesses across five startups ecosystems in Europe: IT (Rome), FR (Paris), DE (Berlin), LT (Vilnius) and RO (Cluj-Napoca).The initiative will build on the excellence of European blockchain high-growing innovations and will help startups to shape and offer high-tech solutions to address public challenges and business needs.Public and private actors involved will benefit from a tailormade knowledge transfer process on blockchain technologies and use cases for internal barriers removal and faster adoption.The project will open to follow-up initiatives beyond the project conclusion stimulating the uptake of blockchain solutions in the private/public sector, through procurement processes, joint collaborations and fund rising opportunities.B-HUB FOR EUROPE will provide to blockchain startups, accurately identified and recruited in the five ecosystems through dissemination and engagement initiatives, a set of customised, expert-based services aimed at: accelerating business perspective, providing mentoring and coaching, supporting access to finance, improving cross-border networking with the broad EU blockchain community. Collaboration schemes will be explored for co-creation processes between blockchain startups, public organisations, corporates, and SMEs. Connections and cross-border activities will be promoted to favour exchange among grown-up and less developed ecosystems.The project will contribute to the on-going efforts for a more favourable regulatory framework in the blockchain domain in Europe, with inputs and recommendations collected during the project life.
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IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
00131 Roma
Italy
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.