18 Start-ups and 13 researchers at the 2nd Innovators Academy in Tunis
On 23 and 24 April 2019 in Tunis, EBAN — the European Business Angel Network and APII, the Tunisian Agency for the Promotion of Industry and Innovation, with the support of ANIMA Investment Network, B@Labs and CONECT, organised the 2nd Innovators Academy of the THE NEXT SOCIETY initiative.
This event launched the acceleration programme for the 2nd promotion of Start-up Booster Track entrepreneurs and the 1st Tunisian promotion of researcher-entrepreneurs accompanied by the Tech Transfer Booster Track.
21 entrepreneurs representing 18 start-ups from 7 countries in the Middle East and North Africa region took part in the two-day event during which they had the opportunity to work on their business plan and pitch, improve their intellectual property strategy in the presence of investors, business angels and financing experts during the rapid mentoring and coaching sessions in small groups.
They also had the opportunity to connect with other selected entrepreneurs, researchers and expert mentors from the region to accelerate their project as part of the Start-up Booster Track.
For the first time, the training also addressed 13 Tunisian researchers who wanted to create a start-up based on an innovative technological project and who also took part in these two days of intensive training thanks to the Tech Transfer Booster Track THE NEXT SOCIETY support program, led by APII in Tunisia.
This event has been the occasion for the participants to get a strategic insight of the necessary tools to become a solid entrepreneur! To deepen the discussions, several speed coaching sessions allowed the participants to directly ask our intervenants to get personalised answers to improve their capacities during their own activities.
This event received a lot of positive support from the organising structures! Noohmane Fehri, CEO of @biatlabs, intervened and showed his support to the assembly, composed of entrepreneurs and mentors, to emphasize the importance of their collaboration for efficient results!
“I am extremely satisfied with what is happening in the Tunisian innovation ecosystem. This started a few years ago and is now experiencing a real dynamic: there is an ecosystem, a legislative framework and the actors are working together. This event is a good example of working together, which is the best way to innovate and create value. We are a partner of THE NEXT SOCIETY and we believe in it.”
Noomane Fehri, former Minister of Technology and Digital Economy and co-founder of B@Labs
At the end of the Innovators Academy, several projects were selected to benefit from an acceleration programme in Tunisia and to participate in a workshop dedicated to collaboration between major groups and innovators on the theme of Smart City as part of the Emerging Valley Summit to be held in December 2019 in Marseille, France.
THESE #INNOVATORSACADEMY CAN BE CONSIDERED AS A SUCCESS!
During these two days, innovators benefited from a strong support: training targeted solid solutions, South-South cooperation and inspiring collaboration with experienced mentors; bilateral meetings to identify business opportunities and improve their knowledge and solid networking opportunities!
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