There are places for only 8 young established engineering ventures on the intensive 3 day residential Bootcamp.  The programme and its mentors will cover all aspects of business including managing technology and product development, go to market strategy, finances and Intellectual Property.  This is the UK’s 1st Accelerator Programme targeted at the High Value Manufacturing Sector and Qi3 Accelerator and its team of mentors are extremely motivated to help businesses making real engineered products, be they destined for the environmental sustainability, healthcare, industry or defence markets.

The programme is generously sponsored by ideaSpace, Qi3 Accelerator, Harrison Clark, Williams Powell, Synergy Energy and Wren Capital and supported by the Technology Strategy Board, NESTA and CIR Strategy.  Therefore we only need to ask for a token contribution towards accommodation from companies that attend.  We are not seeking equity stakes in the companies that participate, but Qi3 Accelerator and other investors will be naturally keen to see if the ventures are attractive investments at the end of the process.

The experienced pool of mentors covers all aspects of successful venture creation and their details can be found at www.qi3.co.uk/accelerator/accelerator-bootcamp/mentors/

Benefits of Applying

During the Bootcamp, successful applicants will:

• Identify gaps and hurdles to overcome
• Benefit from 1 on 1 mentoring
• Network with key stakeholder mentors (be they potential customers, suppliers or investors)
• Participate in round table events with functional specialists
• Develop and re-assess their business model, customer proposition and investor presentation
• Pitch to a wider group of investors, potential customers and partners at the end of the programme

Further information is available www.qi3.co.uk/accelerator/accelerator-bootcamp/

How to Apply

The 3 day residential programme is open to High Value Manufacturing Teams of 2-3 people.  The application process is open until the 30th of May 2012. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to interview in early June.  All applicants will receive tailored feedback based upon Qi3 Accelerator’s rigorous evaluation process.

Within the framework of Genera 2012, Fundación madri+d will organize an international transfer technology day to exchange information between possible technological partners.

The main objective of the event is to create a meeting forum for companies, research institutes, universities and other organizations that are actively engaged within the field of renewable energy and environment. Participants may provide opportunities for collaboration and business based technology, through aimed to agreement bilateral meetings.

The collaboration of universities and the Public Research organisms (OPIs) of madri+d system in the organization of these meetings speed up the transfer of technology and knowledge from universities and research centers to the business. In addition, there will be collaboration with representatives from business entities that provide the identification of technological needs in this rapidly evolving sector.

Participants should register themselves at the website of the event,www.genera2012.b2b-match.com, providing at least one technology profile describing either a technology offer or a technology request.All technological profiles will be published at the event online catalogue, which is continuously updated according to the profiles submitted and represents the basis to select partners for discussions and to organize bilateral meetings.Shortly before the event, each participant having requested a meeting will receive a personalized meeting schedule.

DEADLINES

• Registration and submission of profiles: 11th May.
• Requesting of individual meetings: 17th May.
• Confirm meetings: 21st May.

WHAT?

Coinciding with WINDFORCE 2012 in Bremen, Germany, Enterprise Europe Network Bremen will be hosting a B2B matchmaking event in the afternoon of 26 June 2012. 

WINDFORCE 2012 is Germany's biggest offshore wind conference and will this year include for the first time, an offshore trade fair.

WHY ATTEND?

The B2B matchmaking event is ideal for networking with like-minded professionals and making contact with potential business partners in a formal and pre-arranged manner. 

HOW DOES A MATCHMAKING EVENT WORK?

Participants will be asked to produce a short company profile upon registration which will be inserted into an event catalogue. Meetings will be requested based on this catalogue with meeting schedules being sent to participants prior to the event. 

Each participant will then have the opportunity to request up to nine 20-minute face-to-face meetings.

COST

The event is free of charge to those attending the WINDFORCE 2012 conference. Others will be charged a fee of EUR 50.00 + 19% VAT (EUR 59,90).

REGISTRATION

To register and for further information, please go to www.b2match.eu/windforce2012. 

DATES TO REMEMBER

Health & Food Days’ Brokerage Event - 20-21 June 2012 - La Rochelle, France

On June 20-21 in La Rochelle, France, the ninth international brokerage event for Health & Food professionals will take place.

Dedicated to health and food industries, the main purpose of his event is to support innovative projects and to promote scientific and technological developments in France and in Europe as a whole.

More than 800 participants, coming from various countries, attended the last 2010 edition. "Health & Foods Days" event has become the standard for professionals involved in healthcare and food industries.

On average, according to statistics, each of the participants holds up to 10-12 meetings with partners, giving them the opportunity to establish initial contacts necessary for further cooperation.

Who should attend this Brokerage Event:

• Specialists in the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry
• Interested in the technologies of food additives, dietary, therapeutic diets
• Engineers from the process or test centers
• Heads of research laboratories
• Suppliers of food products
• People employed in retail sales (supermarkets and specialty stores)

Apart from the Business Meetings, a rich program of Round tables, Conferences and Workshops is also running.

The event includes also an Exhibition area (ask for a booth for your organization!), a Trends & Innovation Show room and a Decision Makers’ Corner.

For more information, please visit the official event website: http://www.aliments-sante.fr (English version available)

Deadline for registration: June 1^st

Don’t miss this great opportunity to boost your Business and your Technological development through successful partnerships!

The brokerage event offers good opportunity to meet potential cooperation partners for the innovation and for the eco-technologies, environmental technology, sustainable construction & sustainable development, efficient energy use and production.

With subsequent “one to one” business matchmaking -- each European and Chinese participating company will also be able to free of Charge present its products and services on the event, and also gain directly access to new contact and new business cooperation in pre-arranged face-to-face meetings.
The 1st Sino-Europe workshop for the Energy Efficient Buildings in China will be held during the CSTPF and CCEC.

FOCUS:
Sustainable construction (Passive houses and low energy house, CO2-neutral houses)
Energy consulting
Solar, wind, hydrogen, fuel cells, photovoltaic, new energy
Biomass and biogas
Geothermal energy /solar thermal heating
Heating System, air-condition and energy-saving system
Environmental protection, new technology and new materials in the sustainable development

Event Details

Framework Programme 7 offers the facility to engage in collaborative research and receive up
to 75% funding from the European Commission. This event will provide you with basic information about why you should get involved, how to get involved, what support is on offer and how to put together a competitive proposal. A more detailed focus on the upcoming Nanotechnology, Materials and New Production Technologies (NMP) call for proposals will also be given by the National Contact Point (NCP), Craig Sharp.

Who should attend?

SME's, large companies and Universities who wish to get involved in collaborative research through this EU scheme. There will be a bias towards companies working in the NMP thematic area. A good opportunity to network as well! Places restricted to 40 persons.

Agenda

09:30 Registration and Refreshments
10:00 Welcome Andy Taylor Enterprise Europe Network regional support available
10:20 Sean Kelly Nanofactory. Working with the Universities
10:35 Craig Sharp NCP for NMP. FP7 overview and NMP 2013 work programme outline
11:20 Gabriela Salejova, NMP NCP, Czech Republic, FP7 Activity and partnering opportunities in the Czech Republic
11:35 Q&A
12:00 Lunch & networking
12:30 1:1 project evaluations available (please advise when booking)
13:15 Close

Meet4lifesciences, 26 -27 June 2012, Basel, international partnering event

UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) Yorkshire, in collaboration with UKTI East Midlands and Russian market specialists, School of Thought 2000 Ltd, is running a trade visit to Russia in September 2012.

Companies will fly into Yekaterinburg for a welcome and introductory briefing organised by the British Consulate, visit Kazan and attend their own individual meetings.  There will be an optional visit to Sochi Forum to scope potential Olympic and other business opportunities in the form of one-to-one meetings.

This visit is open to experienced exporters from all sectors who are interested in doing business in Russia, partnering with companies in Russia or looking to expand operations into that country. 

Why Russia?

Russia is the UK’s third largest export market outside Europe and North America, with favourable cross-sector opportunities, some unique in scale.  The Russian Government’s economy modernisation and infrastructure development agenda, underpinned by 140m consumers’ appetite for quality goods and services, produces a need for international expertise and products. 

UK exports to Russia in 2011 increased by 39% on 2010 levels and equalled £4.78bn.  Since 2001, UK-Russia trade has been growing by an average of 21% year-on-year.

Opportunities exist primarily in the following sectors:

• automotive
• advanced engineering
• oil & gas
• mining
• energy
• construction & infrastructure
• global sports projects

Programme:

16th September                         arrive Yekaterinburg
17th September                         briefing / meetings / reception
18th September                         meetings / travel to Kazan
19th September                         meetings
20th September                         meetings / travel to Sochi
21st-22nd September              Sochi Forum
23rd September                         return to UK

A more detailed itinerary is currently being prepared.  For further information or to pre-register your interest, please contact Steve Haynes on 07827 804488 or e-mail s.haynes@uktiyorkshire.co.uk (Steve is UKTI’s Russian market specialist for the Yorkshire and Humber region).
 

At a time when many firms are trying to bid for public sector contracts and public sector budgets are tight, how can you make your company stand out from the crowd?

This half-day seminar (a.m) is designed to give you lots of useful information and advice, so that you can sell successfully to customers in the public sector. Speakers who are responsible for purchasing in their local organisation will talk you through the purchasing process: from finding out about contract opportunities through bidding and then the evaluation of tenders.

Delegates will leave with a better understanding of the rules which public sector purchasers must follow, hear lots of hints and tips to help improve their bids and learn about all the support available. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions, as well as to chat over coffee with those actually doing the buying.

This half-day seminar (a.m) is designed to give you lots of useful information and advice, so that you can sell successfully to customers in the public sector. Speakers who are responsible for purchasing in their local organisation will talk you through the purchasing process: from finding out about contract opportunities through bidding and then the evaluation of tenders.

Delegates will leave with a better understanding of the rules which public sector purchasers must follow, hear lots of hints and tips to help improve their bids and learn about all the support available. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions, as well as to chat over coffee with those actually doing the buying.

This free workshop will give delegates the chance to find out more about the opportunities in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark.  You will also hear from two Yorkshire-based companies who are already doing business there and learn about how to approach these markets and the help available. 

The event is being organised by the Enterprise Europe Network Yorkshire and Chamber International, in conjunction with UKTI Yorkshire and the Humber
 

Programme

9.30 – 10 a.m.              Registration

10.00 a.m.                    Introduction and welcome

10.05am                       Opportunities in Scandinavia

10.25am                       Ways into these markets

11.05am                       Coffee break

11.25am                       Getting goods to Scandinavia

11.35am                       Doing business in Scandinavia:  what is it really like?

12.15pm                       Questions

12.30pm                       Close and lunch
 

This half-day seminar (a.m) is designed to give you lots of useful information and advice, so that you can sell successfully to customers in the public sector. Speakers who are responsible for purchasing in their local organisation will talk you through the purchasing process: from finding out about contract opportunities through bidding and then the evaluation of tenders.

Delegates will leave with a better understanding of the rules which public sector purchasers must follow, hear lots of hints and tips to help improve their bids and learn about all the support available. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions, as well as to chat over coffee with those actually doing the buying.

This half-day seminar (a.m) is designed to give you lots of useful information and advice, so that you can sell successfully to customers in the public sector. Speakers who are responsible for purchasing in their local organisation will talk you through the purchasing process: from finding out about contract opportunities through bidding and then the evaluation of tenders.

Delegates will leave with a better understanding of the EU rules which public sector purchasers must follow, hear lots of hints and tips to help improve their bids and learn about all the support available. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions, as well as to chat over coffee with those actually doing the buying.

• Select meeting partners and confirm meetings via online catalogue prior to the event
• Added-value and efficient use of your trade fair participation 
• Allocate and generate business
• Develop and strengthen business and research relationships

Enterprise Europe Network in Yorkshire, together with our Yorkshire and Norwegian partners, is pleased to be hosting the North Sea Offshore Wind Conference and Brokerage in Hull on 10 October 2012. 

The event event will coincide with an Inward Mission of Norwegian wind energy professionals who will visit the Yorkshire and Humber region from 9 - 11 October 2012.

Conference

Hear from key speakers from both Norway and the UK about the newest developments and opportunities in the offshore wind sector. 

​Brokerage Event/ Networking

Request one-to-one meetings with Norwegian counterparts. Participants will have the opportunity to request up to eight slots of 20-minute meetings. In addition to this, a separate space will be dedicated to informal networking. 

Gala Dinner

The event will culminate in the North Sea Offshore Wind Gala Dinner where participants will have the chance to wind down and get to know each other better in a social and informal setting. 

Register

To register and for further information please visit the event website www.b2match.com/nsow2012

Each year the symposium focuses on a different topic associated with state-of-the-art food science and technology. The topic of the 2012 event is “New developments in food science: realising the potential of ‘omics’
technologies”.

Genomic, proteomic and metabolomic technologies are rapidly developing, enabling capabilities (or resources) in biological sciences that will have far reaching impacts in the food and agricultural science sectors. The Symposium aims to explore the potential applications of these technologies in a variety of areas relating to food and sustainable crop production. It be held in York, UK, in June 2012 and will bring together industrial, academic and government scientists to explore the present and future impact of ‘omics’ technologies in
food science.

International speakers with a broad range of expertise and perspectives will describe research and lead discussion that will demonstrate the profound changes that ‘omics’ technologies can deliver in their respective sectors. The symposium will be supplemented by consumer, policy and regulatory perspectives relevant to the food industry.

Full and updated information on the symposium is available on the official website.

SYMPOSIUM THEMES

•  ‘Omics’ technologies: state of the art
•  Application of ‘omics’ technologies in food science
• Chemicals in food chain
• Biotraceability
• New product development
• Sustainable food production
• Potential of ‘omics’ technologies: industry and regulatory perspectives
• Bioinformatics (breakfast workshop)

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

•Steve Musser, Director, Office of Regulatory Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and    Drug Administration, USA
•Marc W. Allard, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, USA
•Robert Edwards, Chief Scientist, The Food and Environment Research Agency and Chair, Crop Protection, Centre for Novel Agricultural Products,          Department of Biology, University of York, UK
•Adrian Charlton, Head of Chemical and Biochemical Profiling, The Food and Environment Research Agency, UK
•Ben van Ommen, Principal Scientist and System Biology programme Director, TNO (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research), Ziest, The Netherlands
•Rudolf Krska, Head of Center for Analytical Chemistry, IFA-Tulln, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
•Roy Goodacre, School of Chemistry and Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, UK
•Jane Thomas-Oates, RSC/EPSRC Chair of Analytical Science, University of York, UK
•Charles Baxter, Trait Project Lead - Vegetable Seeds, Syngenta, UK

ORGANISING INSTITUTIONS

Fera, The Food and Environment Research Agency, is an executive agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). It specialises in the sciences underpinning food safety and quality, agriculture for sustainable crop production, environmental management and conservation. Fera’s overarching purpose is to support and develop a sustainable food chain, a healthy natural environment, and to protect the global community from biological and chemical risks. Located in a purpose-built complex at Sand Hutton, York, with state-of-the-art research facilities it provides scientific advice and technical support to public and private sector customers in the UK and worldwide.

JIFSAN, the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN) is the foundation of public and private partnerships that provides the scientific basis for ensuring a safe, wholesome food supply as well as provide the infrastructure for contributions to national food safety programs and international food standards. The Institute fosters the missions of FDA and the University of Maryland through the creation of partnerships to increase the quantity and quality of research, which will provide the basis for sound public health policy. This includes multidisciplinary research, outreach and educational programs, and policy studies.

EXHIBITION AND SPONSORSHIP

It is anticipated that 200 delegates from industry, government and academia will participate in the event. The symposium will host a state-of-the art exhibition focussed on ‘omics’ technologies. Information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities information is available via the symposium website.

Register now at https://secure.fera.defra.gov.uk/jifsan2012/