Austria is everywhere! And once again, Carinthia is looking beyond the edge and explored the ecosystem in Barcelona as part of the start-up trip of Carinthia’s Foreign Trade Center. An exciting program, fabulous impressions, culinary highlights and numerous networking opportunities with organizations and participants were an integral part of the joint trip.
CoC STARTUP Trip
ECOSYSTEM BARCELONA ’22
With a total of 25 participants, the Carinthian Foreign Trade Center and the support of the State of Carinthia and the Enterprise Europe Network went to Barcelona for 4 days to explore the opportunities for Carinthian start-ups in one of the up-and-coming hotspots, with currently more than 1300 active startups to explore the European start-up scene. With umerous points of contact with various founders and organizations of the local ecosystem, many new contacts and ideas were taken home!
Visit to SHIP2B FUNDATION
The SHIP2B Foundation is committed to promoting the Impact Economy, an economic model in which the main goal of start-ups, companies, investors and organizations is no longer just to maximize their economic profitability, but also their social and environmental ones Effects – keyword SOCIAL IMPACT!
BARCELONA ACTIVA
Barcelona ACTIVA is a local development agency that aims to make Barcelona an international benchmark city for work, entrepreneurship and living with social and environmental values. Projects such as BARCELONA ACCELERA should make this possible in order to support innovative companies in a targeted manner.
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PIER 01 – TECH BARCELONA
Tech Barcelona is a private, independent and non-profit association committed to strengthening Barcelona as a point of reference in the international digital and technological scene.
MOBILE WORLD CAPITAL
Mobile World Capital Barcelona is an initiative that supports the acceleration of innovation through digital entrepreneurship. In addition to events for the startup scene, The Collider program aims to build a bridge between science and the needs of the market in order to found successful Deep Tech Startups.
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CISCO CO-INNOVATION CENTER
The Cisco Innovation Center was founded to anticipate market changes and use them as opportunities to imagine and implement breakthrough innovations together with customers, partners, governments, startups, academic institutions, accelerators as well as local and global developers.
IMPACT HUB | STARTUP ECOSYSTEM
With over 100 locations around the world, more than 16,000 members and a global team of over 1100 decision makers, Impact Hub has created a collaborative ecosystem that inspires, connects and empowers people around the world to create lasting impact on society. More than a co-working space, Impact Hub is an active player in Barcelona’s start-up ecosystem. The Impact Hub is also represented in Austria with locations in Vienna and Innsbruck!
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5GCAT PROJECT | CELLNEX & MASMOVIL
Presentation of the 5GCAT project led by CELLNEX and MASMOVIL. 5GCAT has opened doors to new services in the most diverse sectors, with the spread of 5G technology throughout the city of Barcelona. Starting with the networking of the beaches up to the local government, the 5GCAT project was an important foundation for new innovations.
BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER
Visit of BSC and MareNostrum – one of the most powerful
Supercomputers in Europe – in the middle of a church!
Visual Impressions
We would like to thank the entire team of Foreign Trade Carinthia and Barcelona for the great organization and the exciting program, all organizations on site for the informative exchange and the numerous networking opportunities as well as all participants for the great time!
