The University of Barcelona participates in the university entrepreneurship meeting SPIN 2016
Several entrepreneur initiatives created in the University of Barcelona will participate in SPIN 2016, which is to be celebrated in Santiago de Compostela from 29th September to 1st October and is the most important Ibero-American university startup meeting.
Several entrepreneur initiatives created in the University of Barcelona will participate in SPIN 2016, which is to be celebrated in Santiago de Compostela from 29th September to 1st October and is the most important Ibero-American university startup meeting.
Particularly, there will be the participation of Drink&Fun, a peer2peer platform built up by entrepreneurs of the University of Barcelona and participants of the last edition of the young entrepreneur supportive initiative YUZZ. The drivers of this platform will go to Santiago to attend the program M2M, Model2Market, which aims to identify, support and award the best business models. There will also be the company NeuroTransvirtual Technologies (NTV-Tech), specialized in applying immersive virtual reality techniques in the field of health. It is a firm that comes from the LAB Event of the University of Barcelona, the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) and the Catalan Institution for Research and Studies (ICREA). NTV-Tech will participate as one of the fifteen finalists in the program SmartMoney4Stars (SM4S), dedicated to startups and spin-offs with growth potential.
Furthermore, the spin-off company Biocontrol Technologies will show their activities in the RedEmprendia space, where relevant projects show their R+D innovations, transfer and entrepreneurship. Biocontrol Technologies expertizes in isolation, development and production of natural microorganisms used as biological control agents on people.
The objective of SPIN is to awaken, support and boost the entrepreneur talent and strengthen the links of the universities in the economic and social development. The entity of the University of Barcelona in charge of coordinating the participation of this project is the Barcelona Entrepreneurship Institute (BIE), which contributed to the creation of the program, proposing speeches and giving information about the different support programs to entrepreneurs. In the Galicia meeting it is expected to receive around 2.000 attendants from 20 countries and more than 100 worldwide universities.
The meeting is part of the activities of RedEmprendia, integrated by twenty-eight universities from eight countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Mexico, Peru and Portugal) and has Banco Santander and Universia as strategy alliances, the most important Ibero-American university network in entrepreneurship, innovation and R+D knowledge. The University of Barcelona is founding member of RedEmprendia. The representation of the University of Barcelona in RedEmprendia is done in the Barcelona Entrepreneurship Institute (BIE); its director is the representative of the University of Barcelona at the technical committee in RedEmprendia.