AEDIB|NET
African – European Digital Innovation Bridge Network aims at bridging Digital Innovation Ecosystems across Africa and Europe by supporting the creation of African Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) and by connecting European and African start-ups, SMEs, DIHs and investors in trans-continental partnerships.
SPREAD2INNO
SPREAD2INNO brings together different innovation stakeholders (incubators, accelerators, businesses, research organisations, consultancies and networks) to implement a replicable programme for the provision of high-quality business services and to enhance collaboration between different entities of well-connected and less connected regional innovation ecosystems, with immediate impacts on the local and EU level
BAKE
BAKE is a EU project aimed at developing a toolkit for entrepreneurs and investors with fair and balanced guidelines, training materials, vocabulary usage and case studies.
This will enable entrepreneurs to participate in cutting-edge and forward-looking training courses.
RAISE
RAISE develops a new and sustainable integrated support framework to foster start-up growth and scale-up across Europe in all its dimensions, from initial funding, research support to public incentives and internationalisation
RRIstart
RRIstart responds to the EU efforts to foster impact investment by developing an innovative RRI-based model for startups, blended with novel RRI-based impact investment indicators, through the adoption of a lean/agile approach to RRI embedment.
ARIEES
ARIEES will support the development of impact investment capabilities into the next generation entrepreneurs in Eastern Europe by helping universities (and potentially adult training centres) to include impact investment know-how in their entrepreneurship courses and to upgrade the digital competences of lecturers/trainers to ensure that the impact investment knowledge can be properly infused.
AgTech7
2020-2022
AgTech7 stimulated innovation along the entire farm-to-fork food-chain by developing a multidisciplinary course covering technical and business subjects such as Earth Observation and IoT, Data Analytics, Financial Innovation and Lean Startup models.
GALACTICA
2020-2023
GALACTICA project aimed to support the creation of new industrial value chains around textile and aerospace sectors based on advanced manufacturing. Entrepreneurs learned about the opportunities and innovation potential of cross-fertilization and to win a total of €4 000 000 in grant capital.
THE NEXT SOCIETY
2017-2022
THE NEXT SOCIETY project leveraged innovation ecosystems in EMEA and connected founders with European partners, facilitating transfer of know-how and access to new markets.
DLT4All project
2018-2021
The DLT4All project aimed at addressing the lack of understanding regarding Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) and their applications among European entrepreneurs, students, investors and incubator managers. The main output of the project is a course consisting of 8 learning modules, each around a specific thematic priority. EBAN was responsible for the Distributed Autonomous Organisations thematic priority and led the Communication and Dissemination for the project.
SpaceUp
2018-2021
The overall objective of SpaceUp was to contribute at a European level to the safeguarding and further development of a competitive and entrepreneurial space industry. EBAN participated in the SpaceUp project by providing investment readiness coaching for entrepreneurs and coordinating the evaluation of the companies that received in-depth services for their business. Moreover, EBAN was in charge of the implementation of the six Space Academies taking place during other major European events.
iStart
2016-2018
iStart was an Erasmus+ funded project that aimed to develop a curriculum for universities and other academic institutions to teach Digital Entrepreneurship Practice in a more market/startup-oriented way. The main output of the project is a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) platform on entrepreneurship education.
Invest Horizon
2015-2017
Invest Horizon aimed to boost the investment awareness and readiness amongst innovative SMEs. As part of the project, EBAN organised more than 20 investment trainings and events, mobilising over 200 investors and 70 coaches to assist more than 300 companies.
E!nnovest
2015-2017
E!nnovest is a programme of the Eureka network focusing on investment awareness and investment and business readiness for innovative SMEs. EBAN participated in the project with the organization of webinars, coaching academies, and one2one mentoring sessions.
Lean In EU Women Business Angel
2016-2018
Lean In EU Women Business Angels was a project that aimed to create a vibrant EU Women Business Angels Network. The first edition of the Lean In EU Women Business Angels of the Year Prize was organized during EBAN’s 2018 Annual Congress.
FIWARE Accelerate
2014-2017
10 investment forums, free one2one business coaching and webinars, 6 e-pitching sessions, 2 Bootcamps with 30+ start-ups were organised with the aim of increasing the competitiveness of Europe’s Information and Communications Technologies.
ePlus Ecosystem
2015-2017
ePlus Ecosystem aimed to build a European ecosystem that will help web-entrepreneurs. EBAN has provided direct support to 431 entrepreneurs and ECN selected and disseminated 110 video pitches.
ACCESS-ICT
2010-2012
ACCESS-ICT’s core objective was to address the challenges related to access to finance for ICT SMEs and for research projects involved in Framework programmes, and to increase their overall level of access to suitable sources of finance and coaching.
TAKE IT UP
2008-2011
TAKE IT UP was the promotion pillar of Europe INNOVA aimed at enhancing, disseminating and facilitating the uptake of the outputs developed by Europe INNOVA partnerships.
EUROPE INNOVA
2005-2008
The EUROPE INNOVA – AFIBIO project focused on assessing and removing the barriers that are preventing business angels to invest in biotech and life science sector SMEs.
Ready for Equity
2006-2008
The project developed a training curriculum, on the one hand addressed to business angel networks in order to improve the capacity of informal investors, and on the other hand to prepare entrepreneurs to present their enterprise projects to those investors.
EASY Project
2006-2008
The EASY Project aimed to support cross border investments by business angels and early stage venture capital funds. The project brought together investor organisations across the ladder of early stage investment in Europe as a means to co-ordinate the exchange and transfer of shared practices and tools
