Smart Cities' Challenges organizers:
- Catalonia Trade & Investment-ACCIÓ (Ministry of Enterprise and Labour): Catalonia's top agency for business' competitiveness; it includes ACCIÓ's departments of Trade, Innovation, Circular Economy and Marketing/Communication.
- Enterprise Europe Network (EEN): the largest business support network worldwide.
- Project Goose: a EU-COSME funded project that targets public procurement opportunities in 6 non-EU markets, focusing 4 key broadly-based sectors, including Smart cities.
- Smart Cities Marketplace (SCM): The Smart Cities Marketplace is an initiative supported by the European Commission bringing together cities,
- industry, SMEs, investors, banks, research and other climate-neutral and Smart City actors.
CONTACT
For more information on EEN and ACCIÓ, fill in this form
or by MAIL to ACCIÓ's Smart city team: smartcity.accio@gencat.cat
Catalonia Trade & Investment - ACCIÓ
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EEN Services
ENTERPRISE EUROPE NETWORK Your business is our business
Enterprise Europe Network is an international network of close to 600 partners from over 60 countries with 3.000 local experts ready to help you find the right partners and grow your business through innovation.
Catalan participants will automatically be enrolled to receive free alerts with business and technological opportunities and international participants interested in the alert service can contact their local support office and/or register here.
Our services tailored to SMEs, but are also available to all other businesses, universities and research centres, interested in:
The node of the EEN in Catalonia is formed by ACCIÓ, the Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona and the Consell General de Cambres de Catalunya.
IPR HELPDESK
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AT BROKERAGE EVENTS
SMEs should consider issues associated with intellectual property (IP) that may emerge at any Matchmaking event. For this purpose, ACCIÓ suggests you take a look at the European IRP Helpdesk, where you can find several fact sheets and documentation related to IPR.
Brochure for Intellectual Property at Brokerage Events
If you need further support regarding your IPR needs you should contact your regional EEN office.
EEN MarketPlace
Partnering Opportunities
The Network helps small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make the most of business opportunities in the EU and beyond.
Check out the Enterprise Europe Network year-round marketplace here.
If you are interested in any of these opportunities or/and if you are interested in publishing your own opportunity on the database, please contact your local support office. You can find it here.
Smart Cities Marketplace
The Smart Cities Marketplace is an initiative from the European Commission supporting small and medium sized cities to realise their ambition to become climate neutral. The initiative brings together cities, city consortia, industries, SMEs, investors, project developers, researchers, and other smart city actors.
It has already matched over 120 projects in the fields of clean energy, digital transformation, and sustainable mobility with funding and financing worth more than 600 million euros.
Find more information in our Digital Flyer.
Project Goose
Be successful with Public markets worldwide with www.projectgoose.eu !
GOOSE offers a sound task force to go after Public procurement opportunities in 6 non-EU markets: Colombia, Chile, Serbia, Norway, Vietnam, Japan.
It has set a wide-ranging international network of experts with specialized services for European SMEs, focusing 4 sectors: Smart cities, Green economy, Smart health, ICT.
It includes a Free tender tracking system with business alerts, Followup and Mentoring services, a Balanced Scorecard, and B2G business missions on site.
