SPIN: Rise
Offers early-career deep-tech researchers a free venture-creation and pre-incubation programme with training, coaching and a European bootcamp.
SPIN: Rise is a 28DIGITAL (formerly EIT Digital) programme that offers early-career deep-tech researchers, including PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows, a free venture-creation and pre-incubation programme across four thematic tracks — climate innovation, aerospace and robotics, health, and dual-use technologies — each hosted by a different European partner institution. The programme mixes on…
SPIN: Rise looks for early-career deep-tech researchers, including PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows, who want to explore turning their research into real-world impact. It runs four thematic tracks covering climate innovation, aerospace and robotics, health, and dual-use technologies, each hosted by a different European partner institution. Applicants can apply individually or as a team, working on research with genuine commercial potential.
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