Two European initiatives that had a successful participation during 2020 will continue to operate during this 2021. The virtual brokerage event “Care & Industry together against Corona”, will be open for several months more, until December 31, 2021; and “Innovation in Environment & Energy & Circular Economy”, has its deadline until June 30 of this year.

Both initiatives are integrated by different partners of the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN). Eurochile in the role of co-organiser is the only partner and contact point in Chile for the EEN, invites all Chilean companies to join the events. These are exclusive opportunities to access the European market and both instances are free of charge for the participants.

The first one is a B2B platform, created by the EEN and Flanders Care (an initiative of the government of Flanders) that connects offer and demand with solutions and proposals that help in the fight against coronavirus. Its objective is to bring together available offers with the needs that emerge in the fight against the pandemic, share different knowledge and approaches and give a vision of personalized support to the challenges of each region, bringing together the different actors that work in this matter both in Europe as outside of it.

To date, the event has gathered 947 participants from 42 countries and 50,959 profiles in the marketplace. Among the main thematic areas of the platform are consumer goods (prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation); diagnostics (biomedical and medical technology); emergency medicine and rescue teams; hospital and care equipment; hygiene, sterilization and disinfection; images and information technologies.

To register and participate in this Brokerage Event, you must enter the following link: https://care-industry-together-against-corona.b2match.io/how-it-works, where you have to complete and describe a profile in English with the objective of giving visibility to your offer or demand, indicate what type of partner you are looking for and for what specific area. The profiles are reviewed and validated by Eurochile so that they comply with the standards and criteria requested by the EEN and the European Commission, otherwise they will not be activated or may be rejected.

Regarding the virtual event “Innovation in Environment & Energy & Circular Economy”, a platform coordinated by Bayern Innovativ, a German entity that is a partner of the EEN, has 1,202 participants from 55 countries – including Chile – with 1,990 profiles on its marketplace to generate commercial contacts and technological cooperation in areas such as circular economy, waste and recycling, renewable energy, water and energy efficiency. Their purpose, in a period marked by the pandemic and travel restrictions, is to provide a good opportunity for companies from around the world to meet and network.

For Chilean companies looking for new collaboration opportunities in different topics and sectors, it becomes an attractive opportunity in a sector that is at the forefront in Europe, where countries are aligning themselves under the recent “Green Deal” and where the topic of sustainability is gaining importance. For those who are buyers, it allows access to numerous qualified European suppliers; as a market director, it helps to find new clients in that continent; for product developers the platform helps to find partners to discuss new technologies or innovative solutions; while research organisations can find partners for European R&D projects. To register and participate, you must enter the following link: https://international-partnering-environment-2020.b2match.io/

For more information on both virtual events, contact mcaruz@eurochile.cl or www.eurochile.cl