• The 2nd round of funding opens today at EuropeanPioneers the etventure-led EU-
  accelerator
• Funding will be distributed to start-ups and SMEs in the areas of Smart City Services,
  Social Connected TV, Pervasive Gaming and E-Learning
• Applications open from today until 22nd June at www.europeanpioneers.eu or
  f6s.com/fiware-europeanpioneers

Berlin/Sankt Augustin, 30th March 2015 – Today the EU-accelerator programme “EuropeanPioneers” starts the second round of funding, in which 13 start-ups and SMEs get the chance to be supported with up to 250,000 Euros. Entrepreneurs in the areas of Smart City Services, Social Connected TV, Pervasive Gaming and E-Learning will receive the fund.

The programme aims to support innovative business models of start-ups and SMEs. Applications deadline of the second round closes on 22nd June 2015. Interested entrepreneurs can apply through http://www.europeanpioneers.eu or f6s.com/fiware-europeanpioneers.

In the course of the intensive 8-month programme, the participants will be introduced to lean-start-up and design-thinking methods. They will also be mentored by experienced coaches in concept- and business model-development, milestone-planning, user-testing, team-building, marketing and finance. Moreover they get to work with technologies of the FIWARE-platform, an innovative cloud-based infrastructure-solution for economical development of digital applications, developed by companies and research facilities in the „Future Internet Public Private Partnership“ (FIPPP) of the European Union.

12 teams out of nine European countries are currently funded by EuropeanPioneers. The teams were selected for the first round which officially started in December 2014.

The EuropeanPioneers accelerator, led by start-up-builder etventure, is part of the Future Internet “FIWARE ACCELERATOR PROGRAMME” of the European Union which distributes a total of 80 million Euros to innovative companies. EuropeanPioneers is one of 16 accelerators of this programme. Other consortium partners are the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS (Sankt Augustin), Weblify (Poland), ThoughtBox (Ireland) and F-Secure (Finland).