Issue n. 195

News from INSME
Join the free webinar of the INSMEAcademy, on Tuesday March 30th at 2 PM CEST: Transforming Emerging Markets through Entrepreneurship
Since 2008, LDN works in the education, culture, economy, social and health fields in Lebanon, promoting new paradigms for SMEs and Social Entrepreneurship in collaboration with both the public and private sector. Welcome to INSME!
INSME hosted on March 23rd the first Stakeholder Café, aimed at promoting dialogue between SMEs and public authorities in the renewable energy and green public procurement (GPP), promoting GPP and for lowering its barriers in the UK.
INSME will hold in mid April the 4th Policy Lab, aimed at sharing experience on innovation in the Mediterranean area. Morocco’s foreign trade will be at the centre of the next discussion, as it will analyse PortNet: a national single-window platform for all Morocco’s trade actors.
Updates and contributions from INSME Network
Listen to the podcast TOJOY has released focusing on European and Chinese companies that want to develop their business together in China. 
ISPIM will hold its Annual Innovation Conference on the 20th of June in Berlin. The event is set to revolve around two main topics: Entrepreneurship and innovation in start-ups and SMEs, and Impact measurements and sustainability assessment of start-ups.
EU Project Spotlight
The European Innovation Council (EIC) programme has been launched by the European Commission. A changing functioning approach which will provide blended finance, in order to tackle more effectively and encouragingly the challenges of innovation.
Contents of the month
Hon. Bruce Billson, has been appointed Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman, a servicecreated to resolve disputes between the users of financial products and services and their providers.
The plan aims at empowering research and innovation in Europe, setting up orientations for meeting the most relevant EU priorities and it is going to be implemented through the Horizon Europe work programme.
Calls and opportunities 
GenerationS Corporate Accellerator in cooperation with Sibur
Submission deadline: 23 April 2021 
Open to: Russian and foreign startups
GenerationS, INSME member, joins forces with the petrochemical company Sibur for promoting the Company’s global digital transformation program. Applications should focus on internal processes automation and digital solution for employees’ daily activities, corporate education, and HR.
Find all the information here.

EUREKA Clusters AI Call 2021
Call opening: 1 March 2021
Submission deadline: 28 June 2021
Participating Eureka Clusters: CELTIC-NEXT, EUROGIA, ITEA, PENTA–EURIPIDES, and SMART
Open to: Large enterprises, SMEs, Research & Technology Organisations (RTOs), and Academia
More information available here.

EU Call for Expression of Interest - Funding & Tenders Portal Expert Database 2021-2027 
Call opening: 22 March 2021
Submission deadline: 31 December 2027 
You can find more information here.
 
Applications Open for the 2021 APEC Healthy Women Research Prize
Issued by the Policy Partnership on Women and the Economy
Washington D.C, United States, 3 March 2021
To submit your application form, click here. The deadline to submit applications is 31 May 2020.
For more information, please visit the APEC Healthy Women, Healthy Economies website or contact HWHE@crowell.com with any questions.
Upcoming events
Given the current situation, events' dates may vary. We invite you to check the dedicated websites.

1 April 2021 – Online Event
CEI, Central European Initiative - Shaping the innovation ecosystem for the Bioeconomy

6-7 April 2021 – Online Event
WEF, World Economic Forum - Global Technology Governance Summit

15 April 2021 – Online Event
EC, European Commission - Self-assessment tool for the future of smart specialisation strategies

20 April 2021 – Online Event
ISBE, Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship - Women’s Enterprise policy
 
20 April 2021  – Online Event
ADB, Asian Development Bank - Webinar on Creative Economy for Sustainable Development: Potential, Challenges, and Ways Forward

21 April 2021 – Online Event
EBAN, European Business Angel Network - GALACTICA – How to convert bright ideas into business. The role of co-creation methodologies and open innovation experiences

26 April 2021 – Online Event
WIPO, World Intellectual Property Organization - World Intellectual Property day: IP & SMEs - Taking your ideas to market
 
17 June 2021 – Online Event
EPO, European Patent Office - European Inventor Award 2021
 
18-19 June 2021 – Online Event
EBAN, European Business Angel Network - 2021 Annual Congress

27 June 2021 – Online Event
UN, United Nations - Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day
 
28-30 September 2021 – Online Event
IASP, IASP - International Association of Science Parks - 2021 38th IASP World Conference on Science Parks and Areas of Innovation
 
28 October 2021 – Valencia Spain
EURADA, European Association of Development Agencies - Agorada+2021: Sustainable Innovation Funding
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