Startup Europe

Web entrepreneurs worldwide have an enormous impact on society.  Using innovative technologies and platforms they build products, create services and develop a multitude of solutions which improve and enrich our professional and private lives on a daily basis. (See Commission Staff Working Document on Strengthening the environment for Web entrepreneurs in the EU.)

Here are our commitments & some of our achievements so far

Celebrating web entrepreneurs

Europe’s web entrepreneurs are at the cutting edge of the EU’s digital economy and economic recovery. And we need to celebrate them and ensure that their ideas can start in Europe, and stay in Europe.

1. Leaders Club: guidance and inspiration for the European web entrepreneurs
2. Europioneers: Tech Entrepreneurs of the Year
3. Tech All Stars: best startups from accelerators and web camp competitions across Europe
4. Informing Member States about training and education needs of Web Entrepreneurs (DK Presidency High Level Conference. Session on turning online start-ups into global players)
5. Dialogue amongst Web Developers, Social Networks, EC services and Data Protection Authorities about data protection and access to big data for apps development. We facilitated the interaction between the EU social networks founders and DG JUST
6. Digital Agenda Assembly 2013 Workshop on Web Entrepreneurship in Europe in collaboration with IE Presidency
7. Workshops and communities on Web Entrepreneurship and Social Media at Digital Assembly 2012
8. Major problems of the Web Entrepreneurs in Europe.  Video presented at the Informal Competitiveness Council of July 2012 within CY Presidency
9. Funding opportunities

Mapping the ecosystem

10. Elaborating a strategy for the Web Entrepreneurs by using Crowd Sourcing Tools (OpenIdeo)
11. Study on EU web economy & enlarging the Web stakeholders (OPUS study)
12. Launch of a new Study on the App Economy in Europe
13. Social Business: Assessment of the Benefits of Social Networks for Organisations
14. Consultation on Horizon 2020 Innovation and Financing aspects impacting Web Entrepreneurs
15. Report on How the European Commission can Support Web Entrepreneurship in Europe

Promoting the community

We have helped bring together diverse elements of this community where networking is key.

16. Neelie Kroes Startup Europe Tour
17. Network of EU Accelerators
18. Network of EU Investors active in Tech Startups
19. Network of EU Social Networks CEOs
20. Network of EU Crowdfunding Platforms

... and here's some of the things our friends are doing

1. Campus Party Europe: The biggest technology festival in the world for the youngsters who might become Web Entrepreneurs
2. Startup Europe Partnership: The Startup Europe Partnership (SEP) aims at creating a european startup identity and network for startups, providing communities all around Europe with resources, services and information to help them grow
3. Startup Europe Center of Excellence: The aim is to establish a new Entrepreneurship Indicator in an effort to provide startups with thought leadership and research insights

If your company wants to support the Startup Europe initiative please follow the instructions in the official announcement.