A presentation from the event Entrepreneurship in Europe, opportunities for Cyprus. This is an introduction to the Startup Europe initiative by the European commission, where a brief on each initiative is provided.

1. European Commission's Startup Europe Initiative
www.startupeurope.eu
Entrepreneurship in Europe: Opportunities in Cyprus

2. Supporting the growth of the EU startup ecosystem

3. Startup Europe Activities 2014

4. Startup Europe Activities 2014
1. Startup
Manifesto
Follow-up

5. www.startupmanifesto.eu
A manifesto for entrepreneurship & innovation to power growth in EU

6. Official Launch in Brussels, 22 May 2014
with the attendance of President Barroso
and Vice President Kroes
Two new initiatives announced at World Economic Forum
www.startupeuropepartnership.eu www.europeandigitalforum.eu
The SEP aims at offering an integrated pan-
European platform to help the best startups
emerge from these local ecosystems and scale-up.
It connects top European startups to large
corporates.
This means: procurement (corporates buy
products and services from startups), strategic
investments and eventually acquisition/acqui-hires.
The EDF is a first-of-its kind think tank dedicated to
empowering tech entrepreneurs and growing
Europe’s digital economy. It gives a voice in public
policy to the continent’s most enterprising and
innovative entrepreneurs.
The European Digital Forum aspires to become
Europe’s leading think tank and policy network on
digital economy and digital entrepreneurship
issues.

7. Startup Europe Activities 2014
2. Evidence
gathering and
mapping the
ecosystem

8. European App Economy study

9. Dynamic visual mapping
This map will provide unrivalled
insight into some of the key web
entrepreneurial/ startup hubs
across Europe, the businesses
that are located in them and the
networks and relationships
between them.
www.startupdata.eu

10. Startup Europe Activities 2014
3. Networks of
stakeholders

11. Accelerators in Europe
Accelerator Assembly is an industry-led network that connects accelerators,
entrepreneurs and policy makers, in order to strengthen the support offered to
web startups across Europe.
Outcomes of the first Accelerator Assembly Conference held in Madrid in March 2014:
Accelerator Assembly
www.acceleratorassembly.eu
for the first time, the EIF has
extended its reach to well-
structured accelerators.
26 accelerators
&
34 startup
facilitators
16 investment
&
private
companies
18 countries

12. Fostering the boost of the ecosystem and promoting a European
investment culture in the web
Creating future Global leaders
www.webinvestorsforum.eu
Web Investors Forum

13. Crowdfunding network for web entrepreneurs
The Startup Europe Crowdfunding Network strengthens the
links and networking between existing European
crowdfunding platforms, as well as fostering the creation of
new, web focused platforms.
www.crowdfundingnetwork.eu

14. Network of universities in EU interested in developing MOOCs for web talent
The network connects MOOC providers in order to
foster the talent of ICT and web entrepreneurs, and
create new jobs that benefit both the EU economy
and society as a whole.
Key findings of a recent study:
knew what a
MOOC is
claimed to
have taken
one
web design
web skill
highest in
demand among
students
One difficulty of the current IT
labour market is acquiring
employees with domain-specific
skills : iOS, Android, HTML5

15. Startup Europe Activities 2014
4. Recognition,
celebration,
startup culture

16. Tech All Stars competition
The third edition of the competition
for early stage startups (< 3 years
old & <$1m in external funding)
through which we take the best 12
young startups to the most
prestigious startup events in Europe,
starting with June 2014.
www.techallstars.eu
Winner announced at
the Founders Forum in
London
Previous winners and achievements
2012 2013 2014
• Has raised over
€1m funding
after winning
TAS 12.
• Has raised one of Europe's largest ever seed
investment rounds of $3m after winning TAS 13.
• Has grown from 4 to 22 employees.
• Dec '13 was named one of Forbes Magazine's
Hottest Global Startups.
• April '14, Trustev took top prize at SXSW.
• Offers a cloud-based
software designed to
minimise returns and
increase profits for
online and
multichannel retailers.

17. Europioneers competition
The event is the most important
ceremony for any tech startup from
Europe.
It features 4 awards:
• European Tech Entrepreneur of the year
• Young European Entrepreneur of the year
• Female web entrepreneur of the year
• High Growth web entrepreneur of the year
www.europioneers.eu
Previous winners
2013
John Reynolds
Alexander Ljung
&
Eric Wahlforss

18. Media campaign
DG Connect is organizing a 6 months media campaign covering 6 Member States
(Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Cyprus and Slovakia) with high unemployment rate
to raise more awareness about the startup culture.
Goals:
• Attracting young unemployed people to ICT/web careers:
• Promoting entrepreneurship
• Delivering the EC commitment to help create jobs
• Leveraging DG CONNECT actions on digital skills and jobs

19. Media campaign: Cyprus Reach

20. Startup Europe Activities 2014
5. Funding
opportunities

21. ICT 13 – 2014: Web entrepreneurship
• €10M funding will be allocated to projects to accelerate web
entrepreneurship in Europe
• The challenge is to create an environment in Europe that encourages
more web entrepreneurs to start a business in Europe and grow
internationally.
• Deadline for applying: 23/04/2014 at 17:00pm (CET)
• We are already in the process of allocating €10M for activities that strengthen the
environment for web entrepreneurship in Europe and that exploit synergies across
stakeholder communities.
• The challenge is to create an environment in Europe that encourages more web
entrepreneurs to start a business in Europe and grow internationally.
• For other funding opportunities, check the ongoing calls of almost €850M available
for ecosystems builders as well as funding opportunities to startups & SMEs:
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/better-access-capital-lower-barriers-success
Funding opportunities

22. Other opportunities for startups available at www.startupeurope.eu
• 80 million euros for SMEs and Startups
• 1,300 businesses to be accelerated by
2016.
• Program starts in September
http://ec.europa.eu/easme/sme_en.htm http://www.fi-ppp.eu/how-to-participate/

23. Thank you.
Bogdan.ceobanu@ec.europa.eu | @studios
www.startupeurope.eu | @startupeu
www.facebook.com/groups/startupeurope