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NOVA Matchmaking Event

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NEXT EVENT: December 7th, 2023 | NOVA Medical School

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This is the perfect opportunity to meet students from all other schools from NOVA who share the energy and passion for entrepreneurial projects and hold different backgrounds, skills and knowledge.

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Find your dream team!

If you're looking for a team for your own project or you'd like to join a young-spirited project, this is definitely the event for you!

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December 7th, 2023 @ NOVA Medical School from 17h30 to 19h00

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Check out what happened in previous events!

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ImPact @ NOVA | Health & Biotech | Powered by Patentree

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 July 4th, 2023 | NOVA University Lisbon Rectorate (Campolide Campus)

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In order to raise awareness amongst the NOVA community regarding the potentialities and legal procedures surrounding IP, the purpose of this workshop is to gather the entirety of NOVA community closely related to the health and biotech fields, with special emphasis on scientists, researchers, and other academic and non-academic staff, to learn about the importance of IP in their works and projects, as well as to provide them with some basic knowledge on the subject. It is also a purpose of this event to elucidate NOVA’s academic community on its policies and internal procedures, whilst providing some insights on best practices and other useful tips.

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The presence of inventive, enthusiastic, and imaginative individuals is instrumental in propelling the transition towards a better and more sustainable future, and the protection of intellectual property (IP) can facilitate the development of a better tomorrow.

NOVA’s ecosystem is no exception to this paradigm. With a strong linkage to impact creation, this event is held to help researchers and support staff to boost the impact of their research, to acknowledge some technicalities regarding IP and to answer to their own questions related to the subject.

To do this, the event is structured following a workshop approach, entailing introductory remarks on the importance of IP on research projects. It should also stimulate fruitful discussions regarding the actual challenges that scientists, researchers and other academic and non-academic staff face when managing their projects, IP portfolio and knowledge transfer strategies. This is a great opportunity to stimulate faculty in engaging with an expert on this field by having the possibility to have a short meeting with the speakers and a NOVA innovation manager.

Participants are invited to bring their own use cases to be discussed.

 

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July 4th, 2023 @ NOVA University Lisbon Rectorate (Campolide Campus), from 10h00 to 13h00.

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NOVA Matchmaking Event

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NEXT EVENT: April 18th, 2023 | FCT NOVA

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This is the perfect opportunity to meet students from all other schools from NOVA who share the energy and passion for entrepreneurial projects and hold different backgrounds, skills and knowledge.

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Find your dream team!

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April 18th, 2023 @ FCT NOVA - Caparica Campus from 18h00 to 19h30

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Check out what happened in previous events!

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NOVA Startup Competition

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NOVA STARTUP COMPETITION

When: 28th July 2022 | Hybrid Event

The NOVA STARTUP COMPETITION is an initiative of the NOVA Impact Office that aims to award participants with the opportunity to participate in an International competition, along the best European Startups, pitch the project to Investors, raise money, network and talk to industrial business leaders across Europe.

If you have an early stage startup and want to raise money for your project, this is the spot!

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To promote the efforts of Innovative projects and to win a spot in the STAGE two international competition.

The winners of the NOVA Startup Competition will have the chance to participate in the STAGE two competition, in October 20th and 21st, pitch the project to an international Venture Capital Jury to raise funding to develop the project further and to connect with an international ecosystem of entrepreneurs and industry stakeholders.

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This initiative is open to teams, with at least one element from NOVA University Schools (student, Alumni, Professor, Researcher, etc.).

The team should be preferably composed of students (Bachelor/Master/Ph.D.) or management but can also include Alumni, Researchers or Professors has long as the technology or scientific breakthrough behind the project has been developed (at least in part) at NOVA University.

There should be an already available minimum viable product (MVP) and a business plan. In some specific projects, the business plan can be the MVP.

All areas of knowledge are eligible to participate and:

  • The startup has not raised more than € 500,000 in equity capital prior to the first pre-event
  • The team is seeking funding or capital (or will be in the next 12 months)
  • The startup is a potentially viable investment opportunity

You can find the regulation of the competition here.

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NEXT EDITION

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To apply to the NOVA Startup competition, teams must apply here, until the 20th July, send their Business Plan/Pitch Deck to NOVA Impact office (novaimpact@unl.pt) with reference: NovaStartupCompetition2022.

Make sure you read the regulation of the competition here.

The Jury will evaluate the Business Plans and select a maximum of 10 ideas to pitch in the NOVA Startup Competition. The pitch will be held in hybrid format, so we will have both physically and online pitches.

The Business plans/pitch deck should have a maximum of 15 pages with the following content:

  • Executive Summary;
  • The problem;
  • Solution;
  • Value proposition;
  • Target market;
  • Competitors;
  • Intellectual property Analysis;
  • Financial projections;
  • The team.

The evaluation criteria are the following:

  • Size of the potential market defined in the Business Plan as well as its impact in the society (should be aligned with the SDGs);
  • Quality of the team, measured by qualifications, diversity and complementarity of its members;;
  • Quality of the idea, measured by the explanation of the problem/need identified and the product/service/technology capabilities to solve the problem/need;
  • Innovation of the idea;
  • Capacity of quantification of the key business elements;
  • Quality of the business strategy;
  • Suitability of the funding structure presented.
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The best team will have access to STAGE Two program with travel and accommodation expenses covered. The presence in STAGE two will give international visibility but also the chance to raise money from VC investors.

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Deadline for Registration and Business plan/Pitch deck submission: 20th July;

Communication of selected Ideas: 22nd July;

Final Pitch – HYBRID EVENT at the Rectorate NOVA University Lisbon: 28th July | 5pm.

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For more information send us an e-mail to novaimpact@unl.pt with reference NovaStartupCompetition2022.

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