The European Innovation Council Business Acceleration Services brings together four Dutch Corporate giants (Eneco, KPN, Rabobank and Unilever) and invites you to pitch your company and discover business opportunities with them in a dedicated online EIC Corporate Day next 29 and 30 June 2020. 

 

The EIC is launching this Multi-Corporate Day in collaboration with Cumulus Park, the new collaborative innovation district in Amsterdam initiated by ING, and the Corporate Venturing Network (CVN). The Multi-Corporate Day will give an exclusive chance to accelerate your business with Netherlands’ finest. For those EIC SMEs selected, this exclusive service will include specific training, pitching, pre-arranged meetings with top decision-makers from Eneco, KPN, Rabobank and Unilever and the possibility to network with high-level partners and like-minded innovators.

 

Applications are open until 27 May 2020. 

Apply here!

 

Who can apply?

The open application is only for EIC-funded SMEs. The corporates are looking for EIC-funded SMEs working on innovative approaches to:

 

Eneco:

• Cleantech technology for the production and storage of sustainable energy (electricity and heat)
• Cleantech technology for Power  2 X (Hydrogen, heat, gas etc.)

 

KPN:

• 5G Fieldlabs
• Health
• API
• Mechanics
• Open Innovation hub
• Connected greenhouse
• Mobile identity
• Connected Car
• Location-based Services
• Advanced Analytics

 

Rabobank: 

• Reducing the need for food (conventional) plastic packaging(eg re-designing food delivery systems/shortening time from ‘farm to plate’ to eliminate need for packaging, novel solutions to extend shelf life particularly of perishable goods such as enzyme/molecular coatings, bio-based& biodegradable plastics i.e. substitutes)
• Re-using, recycling or upcycling fossil-fuelbased packaging (e.g. novel collection solutions post-consumption, filtering/processing solutions, recycling or upcycling of plastic waste)
• End of life solutions to avoid build-up in natural ecosystems/food chains (e.g. ocean clean-up as well-known example, but potentially also solutions to avoid decomposition into micro particles to avoid entering into food chains)

 

Unilever:

Advanced data & analytics tools:

• Business intelligence solutions, customer needs mapping, customer profiling and insight identification tools
• Marketing automation tools supporting micro-segmentation
• Monitoring tools for measuring the effectiveness of digital campaigns.

 

Seasoning-advanced data & analytics tools:

• Open source chemical and culinary data mapping on dried botanical ingredients used in Savoury (herbs, spices, dried vegetables/fruits etc)
• Product design intelligent tool supporting creation of Seasoning products targeting a given/preferred/desired by consumer flavour direction (meaty, chicken, salty, herbal etc)

 

Personalized nutrition: what’s possible?

Digital consumer feedback: What I would like to see if there is a way, we can get consumers to give us direct feedback on our products in a digital way.

Emulsion technology: technical challenge with regards to emulsions (on factory scale)

 

For more detailed information regarding challenges and Corporate information, please check here. 

 

This opportunity is brought to you by the EIC pilot Business Acceleration Services. Read our 2019 yearly wrap-up and our report on EIC Corporate Days to learn more about what we do and how we do it and check the EIC Community regularly. A helpdesk is available on the EIC Community: https://community-smei.easme-web.eu/contact 

To explore other opportunities to connect with the largest corporates in Europe, keep an eye on our events page. 

Should you have any questions regarding the event, please refer to our helpdesk: https://community-smei.easme-web.eu/contact (please choose “EIC Multi-Corporate Day with Dutch giants” as the subject).