Dear Digital Innovation Hub,

We are contacting you regarding the Digital Innovation Challenge the European Commission is promoting towards digital SMEs and startups.

You are a privileged player driving digital competitive innovation at regional and local levels and acting as one-stop-shops for SMEs and startups enabling access to technology, financing advice, market intelligence and networking opportunities. For that reason, we want to invite you to disseminate the Digital Innovation Challenge towards your community of potentially interested digital SMEs and startups.

The Digital Innovation Challenge invites SMEs and startups, providers of digital services across Europe, to propose innovative services and solutions based on the European Commission’s open and reusable solutions. The Challenge is particularly targeted at digital SMEs and startups that would like to accelerate their digitally-enabled growth and leverage on already existing components that provide basic capabilities to facilitate the delivery of digital, interoperable, cross-border and cross-domain services and solutions.
As a participant, SMEs and startups will develop a concept of a service or solution that can:

• Reinforce their service offering by using standards-based solutions,
• Facilitate cross-border operations and tap into pan-European markets,
• Reach a higher level of security, interoperability and compliance of the services and solutions offered.

The winning SMEs and startups stand to win EUR 50 000 (first place), EUR 20 000 (second place) and EUR 10 000 (third place). The closing date for application is 28 February 2020. 

An information session on the Challenge will take place on 30 January 2020 (registrations here). 

Please let us know if you would like to receive any other info or comms material on the Challenge. We are also of course available for a call to discuss further collaboration possibilities.

Many thanks in advance for your attention. We look forward hearing back from you!

Best regards,

The Digital Innovation Challenge team

Contact us via EC-SMES-CONNECTING-EUROPE@ec.europa.eu

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