The EU Delegation to India has launched a campaign called  Biodiversity means LIFE, with an aim to address the adaptation, promotion and enforcement of greener corporate and public policies, technology, innovation, and models at the national, state and city levels for a new global framework for biodiversity conservation. This campaign is being facilitated by Global Business Inroads (GBI)

As a part of the campaign, we are launching a call for technologies and innovations with a direct impact on biodiversity. The scope of technologies will encompass all the elements of the (draft) Global Biodiversity Framework but with a specific focus on 4 Aspects of biodiversity conservation restoration in India & EU: 

1.  Terrestrial Landscape Conservation & Sustainable Agriculture: Water management, integrated soil fertility management, agroforestry, agritech, crop management etc

2.     Marine/Coastal & River Ecosystems: species management, river/ocean image analysis, coral reef monitoring, remote sensing, ocean / river clean up, waste management, recycling etc

3.     Wildlife and habitat protection: Satellite imaging and assisted breeding technologies, wildlife identification and monitoring, Bio-logging and bio-telemetry, drone technologies, tagging solutions etc

4.     Wetlands: wetland monitoring, drainage monitoring technology, mangrove protection, sanitation technology etc

We are also organising a B2B session for shortlisted stakeholders, which will bring together EU and Indian tech companies, adopters (public or private) and financing organisations for collaboration. We will also be showcasing 50 technologies and business models for biodiversity actions in India with various stakeholders from the public and private sectors.

To apply for the call please click this link

Timelines for the Call:

Please refer to this link for more details regarding the event. Please feel free to reach out to mail to:athiras@globalbusinessinroads.comfor any queries.

Global Business Inroads (GBI) is collaborating with the Indian Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MeitY) - Govt of India and the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) to launch the India - Africa Digital Cooperation Platform to facilitate a Virtual Business (B2B) Matchmaking Session – with an objective to facilitate business collaborations between Indian digital companies and African companies (corporates, SMEs, startups) seeking digital technologies, products, services and offshore/joint development opportunities from leading Indian Digital / IT companies.

The initiative will bring together African companies looking for digital solutions with Indian software solutions providers through a series of India-Africa B2B networking events in 2022-23 in both virtual and physical formats. The first leg of the B2B event is scheduled on the 20^th and 21^st of July.

The initiative is supported by GBI’s partner Prosper Africa.

We invite African stakeholders to collaborate with us to support African companies' access to the Indian software solutions market. Please write to mgeorge@globalbusinessinroads.com for more information.

We are currently working on developing a platform focused on technology and innovation transfer between the EU and India in the sustainable mobility and EV sectors. This platform has been designed to encourage private sector cooperation between both sides through EU and Indian business networks for enabling private investment and developing global and regional value chains.

We would like to connect with you to understand more about the work that you are doing in the sustainable mobility / EV sector and explore how you could leverage this platform to enhance the work that you are currently doing. For further information on the EV ecosystem platform, please contact athiras@globalbusinessinroads.com.

The event will bring together innovative cleantech companies with experienced fund managers, business angels and corporate investors. If you’re looking for world-class deals in cleantech, this event is for you. 

Cleantech Venture Day will consist of a networking afternoon in London on the 18th May and the online pitching event on the 19th May.

Building on a 15-year record of successful Cleantech Venture Days in London and Helsinki, Cambridge Cleantech and Oxfordshire Greentech are once again teaming up to bring you this world-class pitching and investment event.

Cleantech Venture Day has been a trailblazing event for the cleantech community since it started in 2006. Over the last decade and a half, more than 275 companies have pitched at Cleantech Venture Days and more than 650 million euros have been invested as a result of the events.

Twenty-four companies making a positive impact on the planet will be selected to pitch to an audience of cleantech-focused investors at this well-established event that has been running since 2006, and you could be one of them.

Previous attendees include At One Venture, Barclays, Cambridge Capital Group, Earth Angel Investors, and more! Companies that have previously pitched include Airex, Cheeky Panda, Echion Technology, Oxwash, Sunswap, Zedify, and more! See our 2021 Dealflow 

Who can apply:

·       All Cleantech solutions are welcome

·       Open to companies from anywhere seeking Seed, Series A and B funds.

·       Companies who already applied to previous Cleantech Venture Days can reapply. Please note that some of the judges will be different from previous events. 

For further details please visit http://www.cleantechday.com/london/

We are pleased to announce that registrations are now open to attend the new edition of the EEN matchmaking event B2WORTH@Torino Fashion Match 2022 that Unioncamere Piemonte, in collaboration with the Turin Chamber of Commerce, as partners of the Enterprise Europe Network, will organize on the  7th,8th and 9th July 2022.

The event will be hybrid, as follows: 

●      7th and 8th July: On-Site at the Mercato Centrale di Torino (morning and afternoon)

●      9th July: On-site Morning session at the Mercato Centrale di Torino + ON-LINE afternoon session

For more information, please refer here: https://b2worth-torinofashionmatch-2022.b2match.io/page-811

The event is addressed to: 

●      Fashion Designers| Startups| Innovative brands

●      SMEs: Textile and accessories manufacturing companies

●      Retailers |distributors| sales agents | Fashion stores

●      E-commerce Platforms

●      PR Agency| Marketing-Business Experts and Business development

●      Buyers Commercial Agents with a real interest in finding new products

●      ICT service providers for the fashion industry

●      Investors focused on the fashion industry and Female entrepreneurship

Topics addressed:

●      Textile and Fashion (garments and fashion accessories/ Jewelry accessories)

●      Creative Industries and design (including topic under the WORTH programme)

●      ICT solutions related to the fashion industry

●      Retail |e-commerce

●      Investments in the fashion industry - female entrepreneurship

●      Sustainability and circular fashion

The b2b event will be organized during the 7° edition of the Torino Fashion Week - Tech Fashion World 2022 after 2 years of digital editions, 2022 will be realized physically again!

The international format of Seasonless shows addressed to emerging fashion designers and innovative brands and manufacturing companies for the textile and fashion industry will take place in Turin (Italy) from the 6th till the 14th of July 2022, in the exclusive location at  Villa Sassi. We remind you that participation in the Torino Fashion Week is subject to a fee for companies who wish to perform.

The Network manages Europe's largest online database of business opportunities to collaborate with startups, SMEs, etc. GBI can help SMEs to find the appropriate business partners through the Enterprise Europe Network. Please find below a profile of EU SMEs seeking collaborations;

1) Experienced German medical technology company is looking for highly innovative medical technology products for the distribution in Germany and other EU countries under a distribution services agreement

A German medical devices distribution company is looking for innovative medical technology products in the field of in-vitro diagnostics, point-of-care diagnostics or wound management and related fields to be distributed by them in Germany and/or the DACH-region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) under a distribution services agreement. Their clients are hospitals and clinics.

2) A Belgian company offering a full water dynamisation solution for home, restaurants & hotels is looking for distribution agreements

A Belgian company has developed and manufactured a filter and a biodynamizer able to produce dynamized water. The solution is a hydrodynamic and magnetic device that reproduces the natural cycle of water in an accelerated way by copying the movements of water that has flowed freely in nature. This 100% natural technology regenerates water to make it comparable to living, natural water. The company is looking for distributors.