Pilots4U powered by COPILOT

“Pilots4U powered by COPILOT” co-organises the Pitch Perfect and Boost the European Bioeconomy 2024 event.

The ‘Pitch Perfect and Boost the European Bioeconomy 2024’ event is a one or two-day event of intense cross-border and cross-sectoral pitching, matchmaking and networking, with the aim to link:

• Industry to innovative (biobased) technologies,
• Innovators to investors

and to create new partnerships for the future and the further development of innovative, cross-border and cross-sectoral industrial value chains in the biobased economy.

Although all Innovators are invited to apply for a 7-minute pitch slot, 15 slots have already been reserved for the COPILOT BioInnovator co-creation group selected through an Open Call procedure.

The session featuring pitches from Open Access Pilot and Demonstration Infrastructures has this year been reserved for the COPILOT co-creation group of Open Access Pilot and Demonstration Infrastructures (PDIs).

Venue: Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant, Rodenhuizekaai 1, 9042 Ghent, Belgium
Access: Open to All
Registration: Registration is mandatory and can be done by sending an email to Anneleen De Vriendt.

Seeing is believing! Hop on the shuttle bus from Brussels Airport to the Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (BBEPP) and discover what scale-up is and looks like!

Programme:

9:00 – 9:10 am          Welcome & coffee

9:10 – 9:30 am          Introduction to “Pilots4U powered by COPILOT”
                                         by Stef Denayer, Pilots4U Stakeholder Relations Manager 

9:30 – 10:10 am        Introduction to the Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant
                                         by Hendrik Waegeman, Head of Business Operations

10:10 – 10:40 am      Seeing is believing: Guided tour of the facilities

10:40 – 11:00 am      Q&A

This visit is part of the “Scale -up & Growth” programme offered by the “Pilots4U powered by COPILOT” project, it organised back-to-back with Pitch Perfect and Boost the EU Bioeconomy 2024. Therefore a shuttle bus will depart from Sheraton Brussels Airport at 8am sharp on Wednesday December 4th and will be back at Brussels Airport around 3pm.

The COPILOT project is a CBE-JU CSA project that ill update, expand and make the database of Open Access Pilot and Demo Infrastructures for the European Bioeconomy future-proof and self sustainable through co-creation. Furthermore the project will grow, train and nurture the stakeholder communities linked to this database by means of the “Scale-up & Growth” and the “Exchange & Connect” Programmes.

Venue: Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant, Rodenhuizekaai 1, 9042 Ghent, Belgium
Access: Open to All
Registration: Registration is mandatory and can be done by sending an email to Anneleen De Vriendt.

As part of its “Scale-up & Growth” Programme, “Pilots4U powered by COPILOT” organises a Scale-up Accelerator Workshop following the BBEPP Study Visit.

Programme:

11:30 am – 12:00 pm   USP and DSP challenges in scale-up
by Muriel Dewilde, Business Development Manager

12:00 – 12:30 pm         Scale-Up Accelerator Network (SAN)
by Esthèle Goure, Business Development & SAN Manager
by SAN Experts, tbd

12:30 – 12:55 pm          Engineering: Think about it early on!
by Iancu Avram, Project Manager

12:55 – 1:00 pm            Wrap-up and Closing

1:00 – 2:00 pm             Networking lunch

2:00 pm                           Departure shuttle bus for Brussels Airport

This event is organised back-to-back with Pitch Perfect and Boost the EU Bioeconomy 2024. Therefore a shuttle bus will depart from Sheraton Brussels Airport at 8am sharp on Wednesday December 4th and will be back at Brussels Airport around 3pm.

The COPILOT project is a CBE-JU CSA project that ill update, expand and make the database of Open Access Pilot and Demo Infrastructures for the European Bioeconomy future-proof and self sustainable through co-creation. Furthermore the project will grow, train and nurture the stakeholder communities linked to this database by means of the “Scale-up & Growth” and the “Exchange & Connect” Programmes.

More information and application on/for the Open Calls.

This event is organised back-to-back with Pitch Perfect and Boost the EU Bioeconomy 2024. Therefore a shuttle bus will depart from Sheraton Brussels Airport at 8am sharp on Wednesday December 4th and will be back at Brussels Airport around 6 pm.

The COPILOT consortium will organise two webinars to inform potential applicants. These webinars will include a “live” Q&A opportunity. The webinars are scheduled for:

• Tuesday September 10th, 2024 at 11 am CET – REGISTER HERE
• Tuesday September 24th, 2024 at 11 am CET – REGISTER HERE

Need more information? Please, send an email to Yang Zou.

Preliminary programme:

11 – 11.05 am          Introduction on Pilots4U powered by COPILOT
by Yang Zou, COPILOT Project Coordinator and Platform Manager

11.05 – 11.30 am    Introduction to COPILOT Open Call 1 and Open call 2
by Stef Denayer, Pilots4U Stakeholder Relations Manager

11.30 – 11.40 am     Application phase and important documents
by Mateusz Kowacki, F6S

11.40 am                  Q&A