ClimateLaunchpad
EIT CLIMATE-KIC COMPETITION
ClimateLaunchpad is the world’s largest green business ideas competition. Its mission is to unlock the world’s cleantech potential that addresses climate change. In Portugal, the ClimateLaunchpad competition is organised by UPTEC
School of Startups
UPTEC ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAMME
The School of Startups is a business ideas acceleration programme, designed to prepare entrepreneurs to the challenges of creating and developing a new business project.
EIT Culture & Creativity
EIT Culture & Creativity
EIT Culture & Creativity is a Knowledge and Innovation Community that's bringing creatives from all walks of life together to rethink how we live as Europeans.
HERFUND
EU FUNDED PROJECT
HerFund ambition is to foster knowledge-sharing and synergies between innovation actors, existing initiatives/projects in order to support the next generation of startups, with an emphasis on women-led companies and gender-conscious investors
INNOV4LIFE
EU COFUNDED PROJECT
INNOV4LIFE will create a cross-border network of LivingLabs specializing in digital health, and to provide real-world validation services, following science-based protocols, for digital solutions focused on dementias and cognitive degeneration
CROP
EU FUNDED PROJECT
CROP aims at enhancing creative thinking as a skill of students and graduates of A&H. It will entail the development of a master's degree to equip students with theoretical knowledge and practical skills to enhance creativity by fostering opportunities for internships, job placement and entrepreneurship
Blue Shuttle
EU COFUNDED PROJECT
Blue Shuttle aims to foster the digitalisation of the Blue Bioeconomy sector in the European countries of the Atlantic Area (Ireland, France, Spain and Portugal), to stimulate more efficient and sustainable processes, as well as creative and viable solutions to foster competitiveness and resilience
SaferSEA
EU COFUNDED PROJECT
SaferSEA will raise awareness of the challenges faced by the shipping industry, and help prevent the risks associated with maritime transport, reinforcing connections between regions of the Atlantic Area
ST3ER
EU COFUNDED PROJECT
ST3ER’s main objectives are to facilitate tourism SMEs green and digital transition, support SME development/scaling up, foster innovative solutions for sustainable tourism and promote best practice exchanges, knowledge sharing and transfer. The project will support over 200 SMEs through targeted open calls
PRODUTECH DIH
EU COFUNDED PROJECT
PRODUTECH DIH, an European Digital Innovation Hub, aims to drive the digitalisation of the manufacturing industry. Through a dual approach focusing on production technologies and manufacturing sectors, it enhances their role in the digital and green transformation of various manufacturing sectors.
ESA BIC PORTUGAL
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY INCUBATION PROGRAMME
The ESA Business Incubation Centre in UPTEC enables entrepreneurs to receive comprehensive business and technical support to set up their business using space technology for non-space industrial and commercial uses.