Deadline: 30th September 2023 | For Startups and SMEs NEX-LABS Innovation vouchers are offered
| Title: | For startups and SMEs NEX-LABS Innovation Vouchers are offered. |
| Organisation: | NEX-LABS |
| Fund/Benefit: | With the use of these vouchers, SMEs and entrepreneurs will have access to possible external expertise. |
| Deadline: | 30th September 2023 |
| Eligible countries: | Cyprus, Egypt,Italy,Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and Spain |
For business owners and SMEs based in Cyprus, Italy, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Spain, and Tunisia, the NEX-LABS programme is providing innovation vouchers.
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These vouchers are primarily intended for startups and SMEs to hire the services of outside specialists to obtain access to specialised knowledge and skills.
Objectives for NEX-LABS
- To aid in the development of a resilient and sustainable agro-food business based on the NEXUS-driven Open Living Labs (NDOLL) model, thereby enhancing knowledge transfer, industry-academic collaboration, expanding commercialization options, and stimulating innovation-driven growth.
Who will gain?
- 21 Public institutions, including national organisations and ministries
- 35 institutions of higher learning
- 60 SMEs
- 35 organisations that make up the ecosystem of entrepreneurship, including businesses, technology transfer organisations, technological parks, venture capitalists, and business angels
- 35 organisations working together to promote public discourse, including think tanks and communication multipliers.
Expected successes
- There are now 2 NEXUS-Driven Open Living Labs.
- Four company concepts are benefited by incentives for acceleration.
- Allocation of 16 testing and 42 acceleration vouchers
- The involvement of 50 entrepreneurs at a summer school
- 6 spin-offs were created, and 6 co-patents were filed.
- creation of a job bank; signing of eight joint research contracts
Benefits
- With the use of these vouchers, SMEs and entrepreneurs will have access to possible external expertise in:
- Commercial modelling
- Technology
- IPR Policy
- Linked industries in marketing
- Regulations for Exporting
- What not covered by this voucher?
- maintaining employees or directors
- R&D expenses
- Software development or licencing
- Duration
- The order of awarding shall be first come, first served.
- Start: September 3, 2020
- Ending on December 2, 2023
Countries
- Target Market Cyprus: All business owners and SMEs operating there are eligible.
- Italy: Businesses and SMEs working in Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Lazio, Liguria, Puglia, Sardegna, Sicilia, and Toscana are eligible. Abruzzo, Emilia Romagna, Marche, Molise, Piemonte, and Umbria are neighbouring regions.
- Egypt: The following regions in Egypt are eligible: Marsa Matruh, Al Iskandanyah, Al Buhayrah, Kafr ash Shaykh, Ad Daqahliyah, Dumyat, Ash Sharquiyah, Al Isma’iliyah, Bur Sa’id, and Shamal Sina.
- Jordan: The following areas qualify as businesses and SMEs in Jordan:
- Irbid, Madaba, Al-Aqaba, Al-Balga, Al-Karak, and Al-TafilahAjlun, Al-Mafraq, Amman, Az Zarqa’ Jarash, and Ma’an are nearby regions.
- Lebanon: The entire country’s business owners and SMEs are eligible.
- Spain: Businesspeople and SMEs operating in the following areas are eligible: Andaluca, Catalua, Ceuta, Comunidad Valenciana, Islas Baleares, Melilla, and Murcia. Aragon, Castilla-La Mancha, and Extremadura are neighbouring regions.
- Ariana, Béja, Ben Arous, Bizerte, Gabès, Jendouba, Mahdia, Médenine, Monastir, Nabeul, Sfax, Sousse, and Tunis are among the qualifying regions in Tunisia for entrepreneurs and SMEs.
- Gafsa, Kairouan, Kebili, Le Kef, Manouba, Sidi Bouzid, Siliana, Tataouine, and Zaghouan are adjacent regions.
eligibility
- You’re in a qualifying area.
- You represent a startup, small to medium-sized enterprise, or an early-stage project that will likely spin off in the future.
- If granted, the voucher is in line with NEX-LABS goals.
- You offer goods or services related to food, energy, or water.
- Your product or service is an obvious or possible NEXUS strategy.
- In the WEF-NEXUS framework, your product or service responds to a critical economic, environmental, or social need (e.g., resource efficiency, gender empowerment, resource allocation, community engagement, yield improvement, etc.).
- Your company seems trustworthy and has room for expansion.
- Your good or service provides value that is extra.
- Your product/service is a representation of an actual good or service that is currently on the market or about to be released.
- The suggested consulting service seems achievable within the allotted budget.
- The suggested consulting service can be obtained by the implementing partner by using the appropriate procurement procedures.
- By encouraging expansion, exports, partnership creation, financial infusion, academic engagement, or commercialization, implementing the consulting service is likely to have an impact on the company.
Go to NEX-LABS for further details.
