The 19th edition of Start Cup Piemonte Valle d'Aosta, the competition for tomorrow's entrepreneurs, is drawing to a close: come and discover the year's most deserving new innovative projects at the awards ceremony on Thursday, November 9th, 2023 in Turin!
The ceremony will see the participation of 11 finalist projects, selected from over 150 business ideas submitted to the competition, competing for prizes and special mentions offered by the Partners and Promoters with the aim of supporting the birth of new innovative start-ups and promoting the economic development of the territory.
The most promising innovative projects compete for the overall prize money of more than €65,000, in cash and services, and the special mentions Equal Opportunities, Social Innovation, Open Innovation / Industrial Spin Off, Green & Blue, and Sustainable Technologies.
The top six projects will also participate in the PNI - Italian National Innovation Award 2023, to be held in Milan on November 30th and December 1st, and will challenge the winning projects of the other 15 regional Start Cups.
Register now on Eventbrite to reserve your place in attendance at the event, which will take place from 09:30 CET in the Auditorium of the Aldo Moro Complex of the University of Turin (via Sant'Ottavio cornering via Verdi, Turin), and meet the upcoming protagonists of the world of innovative entrepreneurship!
Agenda
09:30 | Participant registration
10:00 | Opening institutional greetings
Stefano Geuna, Rector of the University of Turin
Fiorella Altruda, President of 2i3T, the Incubator of the University of Turin
Francesca Boccafoschi, Delegate for Start Up, innovative supply chains and technology transfer, University of Eastern Piedmont / Enne3 Incubator
Giuseppe Scellato, President of I3P, the Innovative Companies Incubator of Politecnico di Torino
Moderator: Giuseppe Serrao, Director of 2i3T, the Incubator of the University of Turin
10:30 | Elevator Pitch of the 11 finalist projects
11:30 | Start Cup Piemonte Valle d'Aosta 2023 award ceremony
13:00 | Concluding remarks
You can download the full programme of the event (in Italian language) by clicking on this link.
The finalist projects
AI-TWIN (Life Sciences)
FOCOOS AI (ICT)
FORMILE (Tourism and Cultural & Creative Industry)
IAMGREEN (Cleantech & Energy)
NABU (Cleantech & Energy)
PLANT FLOW SOLUTIONS (Industrial)
PLINO (ICT)
RASGENIUS (Life Sciences)
SEAFORM (Cleantech & Energy)
SPAICE (ICT)
UMMY (ICT)
Special guests
The Piedmont Regional Councillors Elena Chiorino, Councillor for Employment, Vocational Training and Right to University Studies, and Andrea Tronzano, Councillor for Economic and Financial Planning, Heritage, Development of Productive Activities and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, are invited to the ceremony.
The event, organized under the patronage of the University of Turin, sees the participation of the numerous institutions, foundations and sponsoring companies that have contributed to the realisation of the 2023 business plan competition are also expected to attend: Piedmont Region, Autonomous Region of Valle d'Aosta, Turin Chamber of Commerce, City of Turin, Turin Metropolitan City, Finpiemonte, Aosta Valley Chamber of Commerce, CTE Next, Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo Foundation, Jacobacci & Partners, LINKS Foundation, Laura & Franco Beltramo ETS Foundation, Michelin Development Foundation, Piedmont Aerospace Cluster, Unicredit, AIFI, Invitalia.
The Start Cup Piemonte Valle d'Aosta 2023 initiative is financed with FSE+ resources, promoted by the Piedmontese universities and managed by the relevant business incubators - I3P, 2i3T, Enne3 - as part of the PNI - Premio Nazionale per l'Innovazione, Italy's most important and widespread Business Plan Competition, which every year selects and awards the best innovative enterprise projects on a national level.
