The EIT RawMaterials Lab2Market programme is open for Master’s and PhD students inspired to start their entrepreneurial journey that launches sustainable solutions for the raw materials marketplace.The Lab2Market aims to coach and mentor Master’s and PhD students to develop innovative solutions ready for market. The programme empowers future entrepreneurs to start new businesses, create new jobs and commercialise new technologies that will generate impact on the raw materials value chain.

The EIT RawMaterials Accelerator aims to catch and mentor start-ups to rapidly become suppliers to, and perhaps future partners of, the EIT RawMaterials network. The programme facilitates introductions to customers in the EIT RawMaterials partner network who are willing to adopt innovations. EIT RawMaterials connects local and national ecosystems to the pan-European network of pilot and test infrastructure facilities as well as to potential customers. It also offers to supply grant funding to enable start-up teams to participate in the RawMaterials Accelerator.

EIT RawMaterials Booster supports start-ups and SMEs developing innovative products and services that can impact in the raw materials sector or benefit our partners.Besides funding and customised services, the selected start-ups and SMEs will also join the EIT RawMaterials partner network to participate in our networking events and gain visibility through EIT RawMaterials network channels. Supported start-ups and SMEs may join our network as an associate or full members to benefit from the ecosystem fully.

Gold Track pairs promising companies with top-flight life science advisors who immerse themselves in the ones ideating, strategising, and operational execution to set one on a path to success.With its ambition to massively scale these businesses, Gold Track is built on personal relationships between mentors and mentees. Through individualised guidance, it supports companies in unlocking ambitious business and investment opportunities within short timeframes as you conquer unmet medical needs.

The EIT Health Accelerator is a business creation programme, set up to support the best and brightest health industry entrepreneurs. To tackle the future challenges of European healthcare, the EIT Health Accelerator creates a favourable environment for innovation, providing skills and services to get promising business ideas into the market.

EIT Health and the European investment Fund (EIF) are partnering to operate the Venture Centre of Excellence (VCOE), a public-private co-investment programme to empower finance for European health small and medium size enterprises (SMEs).The VCOE connects life science investors with high investment capacities such as venture capital funding, corporate or industrial firms, Technology Transfer Offices, insurers and more – with highly qualified Pan-European SMEs using an exclusive artificial intelligence platform that brings all members together.

EIT Health’s Bridgehead programme brings together health entrepreneurs who want to grow their business in the European market with top incubators and accelerators who have the expertise and resources to make it happen.

Each year, the Wild Card programme invites start-up teams who are not afraid to take risks to develop an innovative solution for a specific health challenge. Fostering a supportive and collaborative environment, Wild Card encourages participants to think outside the box and challenge conventional thinking. With the guidance and support of experts and investors, teams have the opportunity to take on the challenge and bring innovative products and services to the healthcare industry.

The User Validation Labs (ULabs) programme connects founders with EIT Health partners in Europe that can help founders organise and execute a validation study for start-up innovations. The ULabs include living labs, accelerators, hospitals and innovation centres that can help to get access to and collect feedback from future end users. The ULabs provide the opportunity to to test products or services with patients, clinicians and medical staff in Europe.

The InnoStars Awards is a key acceleration programme for early-stage start-ups from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, where the pace of innovation is more moderate.The programme helps transform prototypes and MVPs into health solutions or products and bring them to the market. Over the last seven years, more than 100 start-ups have been trained and more than half have been successful in the market.

The EIT Jumpstarter supports student innovators and researchers to test the potential of their ideas guided by trainers and business coaches. This is an 8-month bootcamp and mentoring programme with prize money of up to €10 000.

S3E project ambition is to develop an engine of growth that will contribute to improve the connectedness and efficiency of the Southern European countries’ innovation ecosystems. S3E focus is on the acceleration of deep tech projects / start-ups.

PoliHub is the Innovation District & Startup Accelerator of Politecnico di Milano, managed by Fondazione Politecnico di Milano. The objective is to favour the growth of new deep tech startups which can develop products and services with high technological content and generate new opportunities for researchers, entrepreneurs, companies, and investors.

LVenture Group is a holding company listed on the MTA of the Italian Stock Exchange. They invest in digital startups and accelerate their development process, from prototype development to market placement, generating profit from exit operations, mainly IPOs and M&A. They are part of an ecosystem of innovators to whom they offer co-working spaces, Post- Acceleration and Open Innovation services.

Aephoria.net is a business incubation program for startup companies operating in Greece. Its goal is to support great ideas and get them through the tough early stages, so that entrepreneurs can transform their dreams into good business with a positive economic, environmental, and social impact. The programme provides participating teams with business and sustainability education that will enable them to create scalable businesses and eventually enter the market as change-agents towards a sustainable business model.

LAUNCHUB is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe.

Eleven Accelerator is a corporate innovation and venture development studio. They build and scale new businesses, products, and services with the world’s leading corporations and entrepreneurs.

For over 30 years, PSP supports the growth of innovative, technology based companies across several sectors such as ICT, biotechnology, clean energy and other industrial technologies, contributing to the Region’s knowledge economy. In its incubator and pre-incubation unit, PSP hosts today 41 companies and institutions, employing nearly 140 highly skillful personnel in areas such as engineering, chemistry, physics, medicine.

8 innovaton hubs have been established from research teams of the Uiversity of Patras, in the areas of Biohealth, Nanotechnology, Agriculture, Smart Cities, Cleantech Energy, Aeronautics, Blue Innovation, and Medical Kannabis

POS4work is the first Co-working Space in Patras, Greece. It assists startups, freelancers and remote workers. It also hosts technological and entrepreneurship seminars, events and workshops.

Orange Grove is an incubator and network community empowering innovative entrepreneurs in Greece. It now operates two offices in Athens and Patras, from where it provides nationwide support to startups and innovative SMEs around the country.

Startupper.gr is the main point of reference, through which all the news concerning the startup ecosystem in Greece passes, and it is the first online publication in Greece about startup news.

The goal of Uni.Fund is to ignite entrepreneurship and leverage the hidden potential that exists in the Greek Universities, R&D and Tech Space, by focusing on people and team development, the implementation of successful go-to-market strategies and helping build the foundations of the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

A venture capital firm investing in early stage technology startups that provides financing and hands-on development support through pre-seed and seed stage investments.

Serving as a gateway, Elevate Greece is the official platform and leading resource for in-depth information on the Greek Startup Ecosystem, aspiring to help it grow and expand.