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Abstract

Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome and Marzotto Venture Accelerator are looking for ideas, projects and solutions that, leveraging on emerging technologies, support and facilitate healthcare services, general production system and the lives of citizens and workers, to ensure business and life continuity. The proposed solutions, with horizon that targets also the post-emergency phases, must aim at recovering normality, supporting and relaunching strategic businesses for the country and creating a sustainable and resilient productive and social life structure.

For any further info about the call, please write to covid19call@marzottoventure.com

Description

The new Call for Ideas launched by Marzotto Venture Accelerator and Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome and reposted by Enel, targets academic research spin-offs, innovative start-ups, SME, in general anyone - individuals or companies - who already has an innovative project or an idea to be transformed into an entrepreneurial project, useful to concretely support the Italian system in responding to the current emergency (Covid-19).

The contest’s main areas of interest, which are directly and indirectly related to the current epidemic emergency and the recovery of future life and work activities, are:

  • Medical and personal protective equipment
  • Data analysis & intelligence (artificial intelligence, IoT systems and Smart Objects, Big Data, etc.) aimed at monitoring and tracing epidemiological emergencies (continuous tracing, alerting and timely control of people’s level of exposure to the risk and the epidemic evolution on a selected area), at preventing the epidemics and at managing impacts on the health service (e.g. predictive models, natural language processing algorithms, etc.)
  • Telemedicine and home care (Apps and technical solutions for remote assistance, teleconsultation, etc.) for both pathologies related to the specific epidemic and other pathologies (e.g. chronic diseases) 
  • Diagnostics
  • Therapy and post therapy
  • Biotech (Bio-Engineering, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, etc.)
  • Cybersecurity, applications, systems and methodologies enabling health data security (e.g. medical records exchange, best practices sharing in the scientific and medical community, digitalised medical prescriptions, etc.)
  • Smart Logistic (e.g. warehouse logistics, procurement logistics, supply-chain planning, traceability systems, etc.) aimed at supporting the circulation of essential goods both for citizens and for enterprises that offer essential services
  • Smart working and remote collaboration solutions for companies and public administrations
  • E-learning
  • Fake-checkers: systems to detect and prevent unverified or fake news from spreading on social media
  • Disease prognosis tracker: systems to predict the clinical course, based on images and other qualitative/quantitative data
  • Well-being and caring

Applications for projects related to sectors other than those listed above may also be accepted, provided that they are based on innovative technologies and aim at:

  • supporting the recovery of production activities and social life
  • ensuring business & life continuity
  • innovating prevention systems
  • adopting new business models or reconfiguring existing ones to make them sustainable and resilient
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Challenge rules

HOW TO PARTICIPATE AND CALL FOR IDEAS ORGANIZATION

You can apply and read the Regulation at the bottom of this page.

The deadline to send the application is 2020, May 31st.

The projects will be evaluated by Marzotto Venture Accelerator and Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome.

The selected projects will be able to access the following financial, technical-scientific, managerial and logistic support (made available by Marzotto Venture Accelerator), depending on their development stage.

 

START

It is targeted mainly at teams not yet established as companies, and also at startups and SMEs needing support for the designing, testing and pre-commercialization phases of their ideas/solutions.

It consists in:

  • grants up to € 50.000 in the form of vouchers for services
  • scientific and technological support by Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome (laboratories for tests, fast-track clinical protocols, certifications, etc.)
  • acceleration and mentoring services by Marzotto Venture Accelerator
  • dedicated work/co-work areas in the “Copernico” business centres of Rome Innovation Hub

 

RUN

Regardless of the applicant type (individual, startups, other), it is intended for projects/ideas/solutions that are in an advanced stage of implementation, even in the pre-commercial phase, provided they leverage on validated technologies.

It consists in:

  • up to € 500.000 in equity investment
  • scientific and technological support by Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome (laboratories for tests, fast-track clinical protocols, certifications, etc.)
  • temporary management and business development services by Marzotto Venture Accelerator
  • dedicated work/co-work areas in the “Copernico” business centres of Rome Innovation Hub 

What happens next?

The selected projects will be able to access the START and RUN financial, technical-scientific, managerial and logistical support (made available by Marzotto Venture Accelerator), depending on their development stage.

In addition, Enel will evaluate those ideas/projects/solutions of interest for a potential collaboration and/or support any opportunity of its interest that may arise from the call, as presented according to Marzotto Venture Accelerator procedure.

Attachments

Regulation - CALL4IDEAS COVID-19

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