Bologna Startup was founded by Federico Strollo in 2012 to help grow the city's startup ecosystem, bringing together startuppers, professionals and various institutions.
La Start Cup Emilia-Romagna è la business plan competition dell’Emilia-Romagna, affiliata al PNI-Premio Nazionale per l'Innovazione.
La competizione consiste in una gara tra progetti imprenditoriali innovativi per la creazione di startup attive sul territorio regionale.
VZ19, a diffusely owned cooperative society based in Pieve di Cento (BO), was founded by local professionals and entrepreneurs with the shared desire of creating a meeting place for the most brilliant and talented ideas in the provinces of Bologna, Ferrara and Modena.
The Italian Entrepreneurship Institute is a private non-profit, created to promote local entrepreneurial spirit and innovation with national and international initiatives and research.
CNA The National Confederation of Crafts and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is a free association of businesses and entrepreneurs that are politically, culturally and economically independent.
The initiatives it promotes are mainly concerned with training and it places students at the heart of everything it does, aiming to educate them, support them and get them personally involved with innovation and entrepreneurship.
The Contamination Lab is a physical site and a digital platform that promotes the bringing together and training of participants. It is an informal open space where participants can interact, find collaborators and work together in spaces that can be adapted to suit participants' needs.
Cesenalab is an incubator and business accelerator in the digital, web and new media sectors. It offers a range of free, high quality services: offices, business angel consulting, links with researchers, investment funds contacts, training, legal and commercial assistance.
The project allows for the possibility for startuppers to access the system by entering their own data on the Training Offices site, the selection of the best ideas by the joint committee of Intesa Sanpaolo and Confindustria, access to the necessary training to transform them into a sustainable business and see them publicised along with Confindustria's SMEs and to be included in the "Best Ideas Showcase".
