Women TechEU: Open Call #2

For our Pledgers and the Talents following the EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative we would like to draw your attention to the Women TechEU’s open call #2.

Women TechEU is a 2-year EU-funded project supporting women leading deep tech start-up companies from Europe, and will give out a total of €12M in non-diluting finance over 4 different competitive calls to 160 talented women entrepreneurs.

Each successful application will receive €75k grants (non-diluting finance) and a personalised business development programme which includes mentoring, coaching and targeted training.

The Women TechEU project is to create a targeted programme of support for women founders and entrepreneurs leading deep tech start-ups from Europe to grow into tomorrow’s tech leaders and to put women at the forefront of deep tech in Europe.

The project’s ambition is to directly contribute to interconnected, inclusive, and more efficient innovation ecosystems that draw on the existing strengths of European ecosystems to engage new, less well-represented stakeholders and less advanced innovation territories. Women TechEU will leverage its experience and the strengths of existing start-up accelerators, Universities and other multiplier organisations around Europe to foster greater long-term inclusivity of women in deep tech.

Women TechEU will also implement selection criteria for participants that prioritise green, digital and social transitions in line with European objectives, and will support successful applicants in defining a social innovation strategy. The project will also target less advanced innovation territories (widening areas) to reduce territorial inequalities in access to innovation support.