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Boosting female entrepreneurship through joint services and activities

As an answer for a Horizon Europe call, the overall objective of the Womenture project is to empower innovation agencies and accelerators to generate new joint services and activities into their initiatives to boost female entrepreneurship while broadening the participating ecosystem. The consortium consists of Czech, German, Estonian and Hungarian partner. 

About consortium partners

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Design Terminal

Design Terminal is an international innovation agency focusing on entrepreneurial development. Creates value for different kinds of partners in the same way: identifying innovation challenges and look for the best people to solve them. Design Terminal looks for innovative solutions lying in optimistic communities. The programs leverage the power in personal connections and networks. In Womenture project takes a coordinator role. 

Key Innovation programs 

International 

V4 Startup Force, Mentoring Program, CASSINI

Local

ESA BIC Hungary, ESA Technology Broker, ESERO, NAK TechLab

EU projects

AD4GD, X-Europe

12 countries
20+ corporations
100+ mentors
2000+ startups 

DEX
DEX Innovation Centre 

The mission of DEX IC is building startups and technological teams to bring impactful digital innovations to the market and become investable. Focuses on technological teams and early-stage start-ups to scale them up to make them investible. Developed an acceleration program used in DEX IC Accelerator, 4DigitalHealth Accelerator, Moldova Power Accelerator. Builds a unique network of Business Angels and VC funds, and operates an own co-investment network.

Supported more than 100 + startups, like Whalebone, Tesla Medical, Inocure or Pointee.

Key Innovation programs 

V4 Startup Force
V4 InnoBooster
From Scientists to Innovators for Industry" SCI FI
CE-Connector - startups

€30.000.000 fundraised
1000+ students trained
100+ startups
50+ products
80+ mentors

Technopol
Foundation Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol   

Tehnopol Science and Business Park owns the largest science park in the Baltics and supports state-of-art technology entrepreneurship in Estonia and help it expand to the world. Provides enterprises with both modern office spaces and top-notch counselling in developing businesses, capital raising. Provides services for startups (Tehnopol Startup Incubator), scale-ups and corporates (Innovation Leaders Club). The focus areas are green tech, health tech, gov-tech, space tech, smart city & mobility.  

Key Innovation programs 

Local

ESA BIC Estonia, Innovation Leaders Club, Accelerate Estonia, Accelerators (AI, health tech, cyber tech, green tech, NATO)

Networks

EEN, IASP, Connected Health Cluster, Greentech Cluster

EU Projects

Womenture, NBS Scale, Urban Tech, Green Tech 2.0, INGOs, SCALE-ABLE, Bridging4Growth, AIRE-EDIH

500+ startups finished the incubation program
27M € of pre-seed/seed capital involved
100+ mentors

Spinlab
SpinLab – The HHL Accelerator     

SpinLab is a startup accelerator that supports the growth of entrepreneurial and innovative teams to scale up their businesses. SpinLab is proud of its no-nonsense approach and work hard every day to make sure that the participating startups get the necessary resources and guidance. Focuses on startups from fields of e-health, smart city and energy. 

Key Innovation programs 

Local

Smart Infrastructure Leipzig, de:hub, RootCamp, BITROAD, Smart Infrastructure Ventures, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

EU Projects

EDIH, EIT Urban Mobility, LHyVE (Leipzig, Hydrogen Value Chain for Europe), Womenture

Focus on energy, smart city and e-health startups
€ 160M total in startup investments
84 % survival rate of our startups
Top 5 European Accelerator “The Europas” Award

​Project timeline

2023

Showcase the best practice among consortium partners

March

Kick-off meeting Budapest

May

Co-creation workshop Leipzig

August

Capacity building workshop Prague

Connections to other innovation hubs and enhance the engagement with ecosystem builders, public authorities and bring together stakeholders and female innovators.

October - November

Open call for the Pre-Acc. Programme

2024

January - February

Pre-Acc. Programme

March

Online inspirational event

May

Online inspirational event

July

Online inspirational event

September

Offline event: Joint Innovation Ecosystem Summit in Tallinn

November

Online inspirational event

July

Online inspirational event

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Contact

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+36 70 903 8976