The annual EBN Techcamp was held in Lipica (Slovenia) on the 19th and 20th of October. During these two days different activities took place within the framework of ‘Untapped Innovation Potential’.

Laura Lecci CEO of EBN, Dorijan Maršič, EU|BIC Sežana Inkubator Director, David Škabar, Mayor of Sežana and Cristina Fanjul, EBN President and EU|BIC CEEI Asturias Director, were in charge of kicking off these days.

During these 48h there was time to talk about innovation, impact, ecosystems, sustainable development goals, inclusion of innovative entrepreneurs, etc. and to reflect on this.

SESSIONS

Chapter 1: Why EU|BICs and other BSOs should consider promoting and supporting social and inclusive entrepreneurship in their regional ecosystems?

• Insights 1 | Keynote From Vision to Execution:  Leading Impact Management: led by Tobias Temmen, Venture Partner (Kellogg-WHU, Stanford Change Labs). ““A change in purpose changes a system profoundly, even if every element and interconnection remain the same,” Tobias provides a practical perspective on how thinking in systems is critical when reconsidering our incubation models”
• Solution Session 2 | Deep Dive 1: The human imperative. From vertical to transversal approach to impact driven innovation): led by Ramy Boujawdeh, EU|BIC Berytech Chief Operating Officer with Krystel Khalil and EU|BIC Berytech Programs Director and Lara Elkhoury EU|BIC Berytech Deputy Programme Director. Expect to learn more about how technology, innovation, and society function in tandem, and how your organisation can re-strategize for the change happening around us.
• Solution Session 2 | Deep Dive 2: Tech For Good. An ecosystemic approach to impact-driven innovation: led by Francisco Pizarro Escribano, EU|BIC Fundecyt PCTEX Business Development Manager. FundecytPCTEX presented the regional ecosystem that has been set up to promote and support impact-driven entrepreneurship and social innovation in Extremadura. Introducing two concrete tools, Francisco Pizarro, will focus on the importance of identifying the right stakeholders and establishing a new service portfolio

Chapter 2: What is needed for EU|BICs to enable change and enter the future of innovation support?

• Insights 2 | Keynote: The value(s) of the Sustainable Development Goals led by Prof. Dr. Andreja Jaklič, Chair of International Relations at University of Ljubljana Faculty of Social Sciences. Shared reflections on how the UN SDGs contribute to close societal and environmental challenges and bring value to local and regional ecosystems. By sharing good practices from the CEE region, she will demonstrate how the SDG framework contributes to value creation.
• Solution Session 3 | Deep Dive 1: Inclusive approaches to innovative entrepreneurship. Designing Inclusive Incubation Programmes led by Dorijan Maršič, EU|BIC Sežana Inkubator Dorector Ludovica Andrialemirovason, EU|BIC Laval Mayenne Technopole Project Manager and Desislava Dimitrova, EU|BIC INNOBRIDGE – Ruse CCI.
• Solution Sessions 3 | Deep Dive 2: “People-Planet-Profit” / “Society-Environment-Economy”. Incubation programmes boosting Double/Triple bottom line lead by Simone Ritzer, Wageningen Dialogues Program Leader at Wageningen University / Representing EU|BIC StartHub. A dynamic session hosted by Simone Ritzer let us explore ways to support impactful innovation, boosting the ‘triple bottom line’ among start-ups.

Chapter 3: How to enable practitioners and what frameworks, programmes and financial instruments are available for BSOs and EU|BICs?

• Insights 3 | Keynote Communicating Impact: led by Flora Rosenow, Global Consultant Brand Strategy and Communication. As stated in the Better Incubation Roadmap “All incubators should communicate with the external ecosystem to promote their organisations and their end-users. The messages your incubator sends to other stakeholders should be consistent with your organisational culture and mission”.
• Solution Session 4 | Deep Dive 1: Social Value Proposition and IMM – More Than a Programme. A Strategy!, led by Martina Muggiri, EU|BIC Candidate SocialFare Startup Program Manager   Matteo Lupetti, EU|BIC Candidate SocialFare Social Innovation Developer. Better understand the meaning of “social impact” and how it is embedded in their acceleration programmes. Looking at the case-study of “UnoBravo” they debated acceleration methods, and we will reflect on the role international networks like EBN can support the scaling of impact driven ventures.
• Solution Session 4 | Deep Dive 2: Social Value Proposition and IMM – Must-have for impact-driven ventures led by Selcen Kutku, acube | avanzi co-head and  manager. They first discovered the investment strategy of the Croatian-Slovenian Social Impact Fund Feelsgood Capital. They  then saw what role incubators can play bridging investees and investors for impact by listening to the methodology developed by a|cube, the incubator and accelerator of the Italian group Avanzi – Sostenibilità per Azioni.
• Solution Session 5 | Deep Dive 1: How can creative industries generate impact and address today’s societal challenges? led by Dr Eleanor Browne, Coventry University Social Enterprise CIC (CUSE) Managing Director Mariama Njie, Coventry University Social Enterprise CIC (CUSE) Social Enterprise Programme Manager. In an interactive workshop, CUSE shared insights on a fashion incubation programme recently run in Africa.
• Solution Session 5 | Deep Dive 2: Incubation services for Migrants and Refugees led by Maria Clarissa Pierobon, EU|BIC ITC Canarias Project Manager They saw with ITC Canarias how the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme can offer a concrete framework to support Ukrainian Refugees. During this session also Fela Kinse CEO of Salubata was presenting his business idea and sharing with the audience the difficulties he had to face as a Nigerian immigrant in France.

Check Techcamp Pictures

You can check here the photos and use them in social networks by naming Jan Antonac from VSS Sežana, and also de presentations from our speakers.

And here is a short video with highlights from the event:

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Prof. dr. Andreja Jaklič opened the second day of the EBN TechCamp 2022, (CIR, Slovenia)