ENI-CBC Med Programme /
Calling innovators, researchers, entrepreneurs, and SMEs from Lebanon to apply to the NEX-LABS commercialization, testing, innovation, and incubation support vouchers in Water Food Energy Nexus sector to fasten the development of their innovations and access market opportunities.
Applications for the Innovation Voucher are now closed.
This prize will grant 2 promising researchers or academics 5,000 euros worth of support in the form of mentorship and business training allowing them to validate, commercialize, or create a spin-off venture.
This prize is directed at acquiring services for researchers that have obtained research results in the field of Water-Energy-Food (WEF) NEXUS towards enabling commercialization and the creation of spin-offs. It is not intended for direct employment, R&D costs, or services other than consulting/advisory services.
Applications are now closed.
This voucher provides tailored technical support to seven SMEs or entrepreneurs in developing their innovations, validating them in the market, and further strengthening their know-how by granting them 20,000 euros worth of technical support.
The voucher recipients will have access to external expertise and a set of business development skills covering different fields: technology, process development, IPR, strategy, business modeling, marketing, industry linkages, exporting, and regulations.
The aim of this collaboration is to support innovators, researchers, and startups to validate their innovation, and technology, develop their business strategy, and test their go-to-market strategy.
Applications are now closed.
This voucher provides tailored technical support to seven SMEs or entrepreneurs in developing their innovations, validating them in the market, and further strengthening their know-how by granting them 5,000 euros worth of technical support.
The voucher recipients will have access to external expertise and a set of business development skills covering different fields: technology, process development, IPR, strategy, business modeling, marketing, industry linkages, exporting, and regulations.
The aim of this collaboration is to support innovators, researchers, and startups to validate their innovation, and technology, develop their business strategy, and test their go-to-market strategy.
Click here to read about the eligible candidates, key benefits and to apply.
This voucher will grant eight startups, researchers or innovators 5,000 euros of support enabling them to access to the physical infrastructure and know-how required to properly and objectively test their NEXUS-related products.
The voucher aims to support early-stage innovations by testing or validating their new innovations: prototypes, products, services, materials, pilot processes, and methods.
Applications are now closed.
DEADLINE IS 19 APRIL 2023
An international consortium of 11 partners from 7 different countries across the Mediterranean joined forces to tackle the challenges of a competitive and inclusive growth thanks to a nexus driven approach.
NEX-LABS project is co-funded by the European Union under the ENI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme and has the ambitious goal to set up a long-term regional policy of the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development.
NEX-LABS targeted territories, characterized by water scarcity/irregular rainfall/population distribution, reflect agriculture as largest user of water (70-90%) while future global warming projections (≈2ºC) involve summer precipitation (-10/-30%) threatening water availability (-2/-15%) and agricultural productivity (-12/-40%). The latent conflict between energy efficiency (≈60%) and water production is also increasing energy footprint/m3 of water used to produce food. The predicted future shortfalls in Water/Energy/Food (WEF) requires a NEXUS approach.
In this context, NEX-LABS aims to support the implementation of clean technologies for sustainable and resilient increase of agri-food sector production based on a more efficient use of energy (renewable/solar solutions) and water (wastewater treatment, water harvesting or reuse solutions) in MPC region thanks to the contributions of ICT such as blockchain technology, Internet or the Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and Big Data.
NEX-LABS will contribute to the creation of a sustainable and resilient agro-food sector based on NEXUS driven Open Living Labs (NDOLL) approach, thus strengthening technology transfer, cooperation industry-academia, increasing commercialization opportunities and innovation-driven growth.
NEX-LABS targets a plethora of stakeholders, including public institutions such as ministries and national agencies, research centers or universities, SMEs, entities of the entrepreneurship ecosystem such as companies/ technology transfer organizations /technological parks/venture capital/business angels, entities collaborating to the public debate such as communication multipliers/think tanks, civil society organizations.
Meet the team members in charge of the NEX-LABS Project at Berytech.
If you have any questions about the NEX-LABS Program, please email joelle.elhajjar@berytech.org, and we will get back to you.
Berytech is the ecosystem for entrepreneurs, providing a dynamic environment for the creation and development of startups and SMEs, fostering innovation, technology and entrepreneurship in Lebanon.
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