{"id":10545,"date":"2021-08-16T13:36:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T12:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euchems.eu\/newsletters\/?p=10545"},"modified":"2021-08-16T13:36:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T12:36:25","slug":"women-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euchems.eu\/newsletters\/women-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Women-TechEU: paving the way for tomorrow\u2019s deep tech champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The recent publication of most of Horizon Europe\u2019s work programmes has provided insights on European priorities over the 7 coming years. Amongst them, ensuring a fair and equal digital transition is particularly critical.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In response to the low proportion of women-founded innovative start-ups in the EU (15%) and the even lower 2% of all-female teams being granted venture capital money, Horizon Europe\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/funding-tenders\/opportunities\/docs\/2021-2027\/horizon\/wp-call\/2021-2022\/wp-10-european-innovation-ecosystems_horizon-2021-2022_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Innovation Ecosystems 2021-2022 work programme<\/a> gives emphasis to gender equality within the digital sector with its 2021 Women-TechEU call.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A call for mentors in leadership positions (investors, researchers and tech experts) was launched under the EIC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/eic.ec.europa.eu\/eic-funding-opportunities\/business-acceleration-services\/eic-women-leadership-programme_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women Leadership Programme<\/a>. Introduced at the time of the <a href=\"https:\/\/research-innovation-days.ec.europa.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Research and Innovation Days<\/a> (23-24 June), the call will close 10 November 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Enshrined under the SCALEUP &#8211; Elevating the scalability potential of European Business destination, WomenTechEU action will be supported by the European Innovation Council\u2019s Accelerator &amp; Pathfinder with a \u20ac2 million contribution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The initiative\u2019s \u20ac3.75 million total indicative budget is to be distributed as \u20ac75,000 individual grants to support early-stage business development and targets women founders, co-founders or holding a high management position in deep tech start-ups around Europe and associated countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The early-stage focus brings novelty with respect to the <a href=\"https:\/\/eic.ec.europa.eu\/eic-funding-opportunities\/eic-accelerator_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EIC\u2019s main Accelerator programme<\/a> \u2013 which also supports women-led start-ups development in general \u2013 and is expected to generate talent attraction for a greater emergence of women-founded companies in the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Women-TechEU also includes assistance in networking and mentoring activities which will be provided by the EIC Business Acceleration Services (<a href=\"https:\/\/eic.ec.europa.eu\/eic-funding-opportunities\/business-acceleration-services_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BAS<\/a>) to increase women\u2019s visibility and funding opportunities<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Find out more about Women-TechEU <a href=\"https:\/\/eic.ec.europa.eu\/news\/eu-launches-women-techeu-pilot-put-women-forefront-deep-tech-2021-07-13_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent publication of most of Horizon Europe\u2019s work programmes has provided insights on European priorities over the 7 coming &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,127,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - 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