subsidies FIWARE Accelerator Programme

Hello,

I wen't this afternoon with my gasap comrade Solène to iMinds, the institution in charge of on of one of the FIware accelerators: FInish.

On the sites it looks like only enterprized are possible candidates for this subsidies, but is seems that we as non profit organisations are also able to apply for this! It's a bit stupid they don't explain it better on the site, but at iMinds they told us that grassroots movement such as ours are welcome to participate.

The application needs to come from the IT devellopper side, which can be an association (doesn't need to be an enterprize, I was told. i'm going to ask for writteh confirmation). For us that would mean that Ecobytes would be the applying party, and the CSA organisations are the business partners.

The business partners have to bring in their part to contribute to the project. It can be money, but it could also mean testers of real case data to work whith, and other kind of content. These contributions have to be valuated in money terms (sum of all partners), the funds would be 5 times that amount

We can apply to 3 differnet accelerator projects. The iMinds person told us that we could fit in

AgriFood/ Logistics : FInish the one iMinds takes care of, 1st application december 10, 2nd in april

Clean tech,smart cities or agriculture : SpeedUP! (but deadline is in 10 days and not shure when the second one is going to be)

and a 3rd on in Smart cities sector, but have to ask again wich one...

I think i stop here for now. Let me know if you are interested and I'll add some more infos.

I guess if we decide to go into it we could find more interested partners in the Urgency netwerk.

see/read you

agnez