Business Acceleration Programme
The six finalists from the SPREAD2INNO Innovation Academies will take part in a 7-day intensive training programme. During this training week, participants can meet experts from the partners’ networks and have the opportunity to improve their business and market scalability. The selected start-ups and SMEs will be able to receive a tailor-made business and coaching plan provided by the SPREAD2INNO partners, in order to enhance their competences in the market as well as their investors attractiveness. On this occasion, experts from both less intensive and more intensive regions will deliver trainings and seminars, thus ensuring knowledge sharing of the best practices learnt during the project. Matchmaking sessions will allow start-ups, innovators and SMEs to take their projects forward.
Agenda
The training programme will start with an online kick-off, marking the beginning of Phase 3. This introduction will provide a detailed overview of the program’s structure, objectives, and the schedule for the upcoming sessions.
The focus of this session will be on providing comprehensive guidance to the participating startups to facilitate the completion of personalised coaching plans. This will help the teams refine and finalise their strategies for overcoming challenges and achieving their goals.
This part of the training programme will focus on enhancing the startups’ appeal to investors, refining their market positioning, and validating their business models. Startups will gain a solid foundation in key areas critical to their growth and success.
This session is dedicated to exploring various funding opportunities available to startups. With this workshop, startups will gain a robust understanding of the funding landscape and a clear plan for securing the necessary financial resources to support their growth.
The last workshop session of the training programme focuses on developing effective marketing strategies, tailored to the unique needs of each startup. The session will equip startups with the tools and strategies needed to execute effective marketing campaigns, measure their impact, and continuously optimize their approaches based on data-driven insights.
The Rome Startup Week will be organised in the context of the Rome Future Week 2024 (https://romefutureweek.it/) that consists of a week of events on innovation and the future, spread throughout the city of Rome from 16 to 22 September 2024. The six startups will participate in activities organised by FEA, as well as some already integrated into the Rome Future Week 2024 programme.
Find more information on the programme during the Rome Startup Week below: