NearUS is an initiative funded in the framework of Horizon2020, the most comprehensive EU Research and Innovation funding program to date. The NearUS initiative will increase European and US research and innovation collaborations while strengthening the position of Europe as the world´s leading partner in science, technology and innovation. NearUS announces the opening of the following calls

 

• NearUS Match & Pitch at CES 2018 (January 7-11, 2018) –(click here)

Target Group of this Call:

• Start-up founders, mainly early stage looking for market opportunities and funding for their innovation;
• Researchers looking for market opportunities and private funding for their R&D project (pre-start-up stage);
• Representatives of a Research Organization looking for market opportunities and funding for a limited portfolio of “hot” R&D projects.

Online application – close on Nov. 12, 2017

• NearUS Innovation Tour to San Francisco, Sacramento and Silicon Valley (January 15-19, 2018)! (click here)

Target Group of this Call:

• Individual EU Research actors who are highly interested in exploring the US market as a middle to long term vehicle for commercialising promising EU research;
• Early stage start-up founders spun out of universities or research labs or licensing related technologies;
• Researchers looking for market opportunities and funding for their R&D project;
• Representatives of a research organization looking for market opportunities for a specific portfolio of R&D projects;
• Representatives of research ecosystems looking for market opportunities for a specific portfolio of R&D projects; including cluster managers, research lab managers, tech transfer office managers, etc.

Deadline: November 12, 2017.

• NearUS Research2Market (R2M) Bootcamp in Boston, with an individualised programme across the USA (March 4-16, 2018) and a pre-departure workshop in Brussels in February 2018!  (click here)

Deadline: December 5, 2017