7-12 October, 2023
Innovation ecosystem development training for European ecosystem leaders. A transformative journey and the chance to join an exclusive community of like-minded peers.
A leading ecosystem building programme with a high caliber of participants and expert facilitators.
Gain tools to become a leader in your field by. learning best practices of ecosystem management, including community building, tech tools, network leveraging and more.
Experience the start-up journey. and learn effective tools to support it, developed exclusively for the 2023 cohort.
Get immersed and build sustainable partnerships in one of the most innovative countries in the world.
Become a part of an exclusive community network of strategic players in ecosystem building, get ongoing support, access to events and matchmaking from the EIT Hub Israel.
For example: TTO’s, heads of: accelerators, innovation agencies, labs, incubators or other business creation activities from academia, industry
The programme is not suited for individual start-ups or consultants.
Each application will be reviewed and ranked by the following criteria:
The final selection will be made by the Israel Cross KIC Steering Committee (with members representing the KICs: EIT Health, EIT Climate-KIC, and EIT Manufacturing).
The full cost of the programme is 4.000 EUR, however EIT Hub Israel can offer partial funding of the programmes and/or Travel & Accommodation reimbursement based on the following categories:
Participant Category | Eligible KIC’s | Eligibility for Programme Funding | Eligibility for Travel and Accommodation Reimbursement |
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KIC Partners | 6 KIC’s: EIT Health, EIT Climate- KIC, EIT Manufacturing, EIT Digital, EIT Food and EIT Culture & Creativity. | Fully funded | Reimbursement up to €1,500 per participant per module |
KIC Staff | 6 KIC’s: EIT Health, EIT Climate- KIC, EIT Manufacturing, EIT Digital, EIT Food and EIT Culture & Creativity. | Fully funded | Financed by the KIC’s own resources |
Partner/Staff from other KIC’s
| EIT InnoEnergy, EIT Raw Materials and EIT Urban Mobility | 75% Funded; Price: €1.000 | Financed by participant’s own resources |
Ecosystem Manager (Non EIT) | Any individual professional can apply. | 50% Funded; Price: €2.000 | Financed by participant’s own resources |
*The below agenda is subject to change
Begin your journey with a cultural immersion into the human and geographical landscape of Israel, gaining an understanding of what stands as the foundation of this unique ecosystem.
The aim of the day is to expose the participants to the unique structure, key success factors and methods that created the Israeli hotbed of innovation. We will learn the deep connections and roots of the innovation landscape in the traditional economy and how incentivized innovation transformed the Israeli industries and society.
Presentations and intimate discussions by ecosystem key-players such as:
The Ecosystem Summit
One of the visit highlights will be an interactive conference for the local and global ecosystem.
The conference will follow the lifecycle of a start-up from ideation to commercialization, focusing on the role of the ecosystem leader at each stage. Together with over 250 highly experienced and influential Israeli players, journey through a start-up’s journey, facing challenges such as IP, scaling, funding, mindset and more.
The conference and networking opportunity draws in a community of entrepreneurs, accelerator managers, tech transfer offices and leading industry players.
Leading Innovation Ecosystem
After becoming exposed to the Israeli ecosystem, it’s time to bring it home. During a tailored workshop, participants will present and discuss their own ecosystem challenges and initiatives.
The participants will be exposed to a comprehensive ecosystem-management model and will implement it on their own use case, including mapping, leveraging strengths, combating challenges and more. The workshop will be facilitated by local Israeli experts who will share their own challenges and present frameworks and best practices to combat those challenges and boost start-up growth.
Venture away from Israel’s well known center to Haifa, Israel’s third largest city. Known for drawing tech giants (including Amazon, Microsoft and Google) to set-up R&D centers utilizing Haifa’s unique university and IDF talent, it faces community growth and capital retention challenges. We will focus on Haifa as a great learning ground for ecosystem development and learn from the people that have managed to create a supportive and nurturing environment against all odds. We will meet key figures from organisations such as Road2 and Technion University who will share how to build a sustainable, organic ecosystem by balancing MNCs, start-ups and talents.
Following the visit, we will continue to the “C&E Capsule” – focused on reflecting and planning on your next steps. The Capsule combines professional and mental growth tools to help you and your ecosystem thrive and a community to form.
After you were exposed to the Israeli Ecosystem, it’s time to reflect and think of what’s next.
We will also discuss how we can tailor the lessons and opportunities learned in Israel to your unique ecosystem characteristics. We will expose the C&E community and share future plans and events.
Yes, participation physically in Israel is required, and it is the core Connect & Experience event that provides you with professional training, and builds the community. You will have the chance to travel round the country, meet Israeli peers and learn from one if the world’s leading innovation ecosystems.
The cohort will be comprised of ecosystem leaders from all over Europe that were carefully selected to join the programme. You will meet peers and ecosystem leaders from Israel, top speakers and lecturers on a number of different topics, executives from global companies active in Israel, and many more.
An ecosystem leader is an experienced senior professional, at management/decision-making level, in an organisation boosting European start-up growth, significantly impacting the European ecosystem. They should deal with innovation or business creation in any of the following sectors: industry, academia, government. For example, VCs, TTOs, heads of: accelerators, innovation agencies, labs, incubators, or other business creation activities from academia, industry and government.
The programme encompasses a wide variety of subjects, including an overview of the Israeli ecosystem and meetings with leading figures from the industry. You will have the chance to get your hands ‘dirty’ and delve into an ecosystem building workshop, learn the dos and don’ts of branding, visit academia and governmental offices, meet with VCs, and become inspired by the many opportunities that will expose themselves.
This depends on a financial category that varies from participant to participant. Check out the finance section for more information.
You can apply here by 30th July. The applicants will be ranked according to the criteria noted here and the final decision as to the participants will be made by the Global Outreach steering committee. Applicants will receive responses by 10th August.
Past participants have established long standing collaborations with both experts they met in Israel and members of the cohort. You can expect to be left with a change of mindset that will enable you to approach your day to day activities with a new found sense of purpose, as well as a tangible toolkit to establish the best practices you were exposed to. The Connect & Experience community is extremely active with joint ventures taking place on a weekly basis, you can expect to expand your network and be part of a supportive and professional group of people.
The Israeli ecosystem renowned as the ‘Start-up Nation’, has the highest number of start-ups per capita in the world. The country is known for its unique sense of national community, sharing knowledge and information and working together to support start-ups. The country’s entrepreneurs are considered great mentors, many of them are over 30 years old and have founded at least one company. Considered broadminded and fearless, they are known as high risk takers and use failures as motivation.
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The programme is highlighted by the brand names of the Israeli ecosystem who will share their experience and describe their role in making Israel the innovation success it is today. The programme will leverage existing know-how and best practices, will provide a broad access to mentors, hands-on training and tools to commercialize ideas, research and IP to better support your start-ups. It will also focus on how to avoid common pitfalls of ecosystem building and how to build a sustainable system in the process.
The content will be delivered as a Mini-Conference – in addition to presentations by key Israeli players, participants will be expected to present their own challenges and initiatives in their home ecosystem. This knowledge-sharing amongst global peers will provide added value and enhance the overall experience.
Connect & Experience offers more than professional training. The C&E network is an active EU-IL online and offline community offering access to opportunities, curated content, matchmaking, soft landing services and support. The expansive network that grows from year to year offers a space for community builders from Israel and Europe to interact, share best practices and collaborate, with the common goal of enhancing your start-up community.
EIT KIC Partners and KIC cooperating entities under the EIT Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS) from the 5 KIC’s involved in the Israel Hub – EIT Health, EIT Climate- KIC, EIT Urban Mobility, EIT Manufacturing and EIT Food.
EIT KIC Staff – from 5 KIC’s involved in the Israel Hub- EIT Health, EIT Climate- KIC, EIT Urban Mobility, EIT Manufacturing and EIT Food.
Partner/staff from other KIC’s – EIT InnoEnergy, EIT Digital and EIT RawMaterials
Ecosystem Managers, non-EIT Partners
All 8 KIC’s are invited to apply, however funding will be offered to the 5 KIC’s active in the Israeli Hub: EIT Climate-KIC, EIT Health, EIT Urban Mobility, EIT Food and EIT Manufacturing. See more in the finance section.
Connect & Experience offers more than training. The C&E community network is an active EU online and offline community offering easy access to opportunities, curated content, matchmaking, soft landing services, and support. The community provides a space for community builders from Europe and Horizon Europe associated countries to interact, share best practices, and collaborate to enhance your startup community.
The Health not The Death is a fundamental human right. A healthy population is not to be seen as human and social capital, an input, or by-product, towards economic growth. Alongside a healthy and sustainable environment, a solidarity, a healthy population must be the ultimate goal especially nowadays in helping Ukrainian migrants with cancer and their families.
Solidarity in health is a cornerstone of EU health policy. There are wide disparities in many health outcomes across the region and those outcomes. The access rules dramatically affect healthcare systems which are at the forefront of the migrant way, the people who are searching for help and the way how we could enhance and support their healthier and wellbeing status.
In order to ensure their access to care and continued cure in need, the probability of receiving a timely diagnosis and of surviving differs greatly from country to country where they are now. There is lack of information, help and inequalities in access. People need help in navigating cancer knowledge, diagnostics, secondary monitoring and prevention, way of treatments, and care.
Shifting our mindset, supporting healthcare connectivity, removing inequalities overall across Europe is our mission and even more now in a time of crisis, helping the Ukrainian people dealing with cancer is a good place to begin this transformative revolution.
1) Whether we have a chance to foster more holistic and integrated approaches to receive information and care, by supporting coordination and maximising an enabling and health-enhancing effect of care across services from different countries?
2) Whether actions should address the social determinants of health, the countries where they are now, the health need which they have, the social and language barriers are the conditions which have to be taken into consideration in a coordinated manner?
How might we improve patients and /or people who seek healthcare support, access to healthcare services at an EU & the Member States Healthcare systems level? Especially in a time of crisis in Europe.
How might we support refugees fleeing from their countries by navigating them to medical centres to receive best available care?
Precision medicine aims to personalise care for every individual. Nongenomic and genomic determinants, combined with information from patient symptoms, clinical history, and lifestyle (nutrition, physical activity, stress etc.), can facilitate personalised diagnosis and prognostics. Yet this goal requires access to massive amounts of data which may come from different structured and unstructured sources; these can be our medical records, laboratory testing, a range of medical devices as well as from the patient himself. AI & ML can combine input from these multiple sources, analyse them and identify biomarkers that can support health professionals make more informed decisions. The convergence of precision medicine with the advanced AI capabilities will improve the ability to personalise care – improve diagnosis, risk prediction as well as therapy planning.
HCPs want to better predict treatment response, given uncertainty around which treatment to prescribe to which patient and when to prescribe. How do we risk assess the patients, match them with the right treatment (personalised). How can we transform the wealth of data and link it to the predictive nature of how the patient will respond?
Being diagnosed with cancer is overwhelming and comes as a blow. Patients may feel on a roller coaster of emotions—they are scared, lost & confused not knowing what to expect, who to refer to, what to do and how to tell their loved ones. They directly refer to “Dr. Google” to look for information about their disease, possible treatments, QoL strategies with the aim to have better understanding of their disease and learn how to better cope with their disease & treatment, yet information is not always valid, accessible, nor personalised or tailored to the patient’s status and needs therefore left with huge amounts of non-relevant information. Coming to the doctor, the physician’s time is limited and mostly focusing on the physical aspects of the disease & treatment, not leaving much time to ask questions nor discuss more holistic aspects of the disease such as emotional, psychological, social aspects. The patient (& caregiver in many cases) leaves the room with unanswered questions, doesn’t remember much of what has been said, and feels he is not heard, nor seen as a whole.
The need for navigating this journey along the emotional psychological stress is overwhelming & patients and their caregivers look for support (case manager/companion/partner) to help manage their disease holistically – starting from having clarity around their disease and treatment by having access to reliable and personalised information during their journey as well as having an integrated holistic care system , supporting them and their loved ones to navigate through the different aspects of their disease – medical, emotional, logistical, psychological, social, rights.
How can we support patients to navigate through the complexity of their disease and treatment ensuring they have validated holistic information about their disease journey & treatment and be empowered to effectively manage their care
As medical events pivoted from conference centres and meeting rooms to the virtual settings, learning opportunities continue. Lectures and presentations are translated to the new digital world, yet the ability to connect and network is relatively lost. Peer interaction is essential not only for information exchange but to share practical insights, allows consultation & in-person experience cross country and across borders leading to better disease management.
This peer-based learning/ consultation is highly valued amongst practising clinicians and was generally achieved when HCPs and KOLs met their peers in national & Intl conferences, group debates, advisory boards and even during quick corridor conversations. Attempting to replicate these in-person experiences into the digital space creates challenges and are not effective nor impactful as face-to-face engagements.
How might we improve HCP medical exchange enabling physicians to easily communicate, consult, exchange opinions leveraging individual experts & centres of excellence knowledge, experiences, and practices?
How can we leverage the technological expertise to allow HCPs to connect with leading experts across countries to get advice / counselling for their cases?
Application for 2022Calling2Scale is closed.
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