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SCALING SOLUTIONS

TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES

EUtop50 Founders

& Tech Festival

Solving billion-

person problems

with the Bayer Foundations

WFP Innovation

on a mission to

#disrupthunger

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innovate for

ZERO

HUNGER

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Our launch edition said the world needs answers to challenges

including widespread hunger, climate change, ill health and

inequality. Impact programmes and accelerators which

can scale innovative solutions capable of providing those

answers are vital. The World Food Programme Innovation, Bayer

Foundations, Climate Reality Project, EUTop50 Founders and Tech community,

and Solar Impulse Foundation are some of the organisations and platforms

giving social pioneers and founders the launch pads they need to do this.

Connect with them in this edition.

Carlotta De Toni, Engagement Editor, Impact Innovators

We need to step up eforts to develop a single market for

innovation across Europe. EU institutions have been pushing

hard to achieve this in recent years. With the creation of the

European Innovation Council and the European Science Media

Hub, the European Commission and the European Parliament

respectively, have put in place new structures that support science, research and

in particular innovation. Efective communication will be an important accelerator

in advancing these ecosystems, and in mainstreaming innovations and mindsets

that can build a sustainable Europe and world. This is a space where Impact

Innovators can play an important role - I hope you enjoy this edition.

Dr Roland Strauss, MD, Knowledge4Innovation | Founding Partner,

Impact Innovators

Everyone linked to Impact Innovators is passionate about

working hard to build a better world. Digital editions like this

one, along with the social media campaigns and events we

lead, are the types of tools we use to connect the innovation

dots, and inspire the conveyor belt of game changing solutions

we need to tackle global grand challenges. We’re a growing community

of aligned partners striving to maximise the impact that can be achieved

through good communication – I look forward to collaborating with more of

you in the future.

Susan Robertson, Partnerships, Impact Innovators

IN THIS ISSUE

CONTRIBUTING TEAM

Welcome

3 Get ready for Europe’s

anniversary celebration

of innovation

6 Bayer Foundations pave

the way for social pioneers

Q&A

10 Climate Reality’s Ken Berlin

12 Solar Impulse recognises

solutions

Listen

4 Roland Strauss on the EUtop50

Founders + Tech Festival

14 Marc Buckley talks UN Global

Goals

Watch

16 Highlights of Global Game

Changers 2018

Engagement | Editorial Carlotta De Toni

Design | Creative Blair Carrick

Partnerships | Publishing Susan Robertson

Digital | Video Chris Moar

Research | Editorial Ebba Engstrom

Strategy | Editorial Iain Robertson

Commercial | Events James Butler

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urope’s innovation strategy is a

long-term one, and one the 10th

European Innovation Summit this

November will strive to advance. Following

on from last year’s discussions and debates,

participants can expect to connect with the

latest insights on future technology trends,

venture funding and policy developments.

They will also be able to tap into the

knowledge of Europe’s innovation leaders,

and most importantly, have the opportunity

to meet their future business partners

and investors.

It is true that Europe is a great place

to live and work but we are only a small

region on our planet. And while we must

cooperate closely with the rest of the world

on sustainability issues, for example, when it

comes to global competitiveness, leadership

in future and emerging technologies will

be the determining factor, and the race for

the next global technology leaders is on.

Looking around, everybody seems to agree

that AI and big data are the key drivers

transforming the ways we live and work.

Given the amounts of investment made in

China, the best talent hired and big salaries

paid by the big fve US tech companies,

Europe’s position needs strengthening.

For me that means continuing to invest in

science and emerging technologies. Though

to bridge Europe’s innovation gap we will

need to do more than this, we must also join

forces and create better synergies between

our human capital and fnancial assets. We

must support Europe’s innovation leaders

to scale-up quickly at the global level. The

challenge is not only to develop world class

technologies but also keep the business

and talent in Europe. The 10th European

Innovation Summit will be an occasion to

progress these ideas.

State-of-play

Earlier this year the European Commission

tabled several proposals that will determine

the support innovation and innovators

will get during the years between 2021-

2027 from the EU. For Horizon Europe,

the next Framework Programme for

Europe walking

the talk on

innovation

Roland Strauss writes about the 10th

European Innovation Summit - and

EUtop50 Founders & Tech Festival -

taking place in Brussels this November.

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research and innovation, €100 billion was

proposed by the Commission, with the

European Parliament likely to suggest an

even higher budget. While the support from

the next European Regional Development

Fund (ERDF) and Cohesion Policy, which

has helped create 140,000 start-ups and

brought 15,000 new products to the

market, is expected to be even more

game changing. The Common Agricultural

Policy, the other big budget line, is likely

to increase with substantial investments in

agricultural innovation.

EUtop50 Founders

& Tech Festival

The EUtop50 annual festival is going to

celebrate and support young founders

from all over Europe by bringing together

the continent’s leading innovation actors,

technology developers, incubators and

accelerators, investors, corporate venture

organisations, family ofces and all those

who contribute to the development of

a globally competitive entrepreneurial

ecosystem. Learning from last year’s

EUtop50 event, and to achieve maximum

impact, the 2018 edition will be built around

young founders, R&D innovators from

Horizon 2020 and university technology

developers from across Europe. A particular

highlight this year will be a selection

of Europe’s future innovation leaders,

young talented entrepreneurs who have

developed breakthrough technologies

and raised substantial amounts of venture

capital. That’s because accessing funds is a

critical step for young pioneers delving into

the jungle of innovation fnancing in Europe

to get right. The challenge is to make sure

enough capital is available during the

diferent cycles of company development;

from the early stages, through growth

stages that can reach the ultimate unicorn

market capitalisation level. This is why

we decided to dedicate an

important part of the

EUtop50 programme

to the subject of

innovation fnancing.

When it comes to

the early stages

of innovation

fnancing, there

are an abundance

of resources in

and across Europe.

The problem is that the various funding

opportunities are scattered around European,

national, regional and local funds making

it very difcult, in particular for SMEs and

start-ups, to fnd their way. What is currently

available just isn’t ft for purpose; a simplifed,

open alternative, is desperately needed. So

we are currently discussing with the European

Commission ways we can efectively join

forces to make it easier for innovators to

navigate through the funding jungle.

Take Silicon Valley type ecosystems, like

we have in places like Berlin, London, Paris,

Stockholm and Madrid. The recipe for their

success is the proximity to, and availability

of, the most important ingredients in the

innovation kitchen cook book: talent,

university technologies, large corporations

and venture capital: all working

together in an atmosphere where

everybody wants to invent

the next Google. In this

sense, Europe still sufers

from a lack of venture

capital and scale-up

capital in general, along

with a reluctance to

take risk. Therefore, the

support and freedom

for Europe’s founders and

young entrepreneurs to try out, fail and start

over again is very important and will be

championed by the EUtop50 festival, which

will take place over two days at the Palais

des Academies, located near the European

Parliament. Event partners can actively

shape the programme. Booth space is made

available for start-ups and corporates, while

1:1 appointments can be made through

our matchmaking application. Start-ups

and tech innovators are invited to apply for

a mentorship programme, run by Europe’s

innovation leaders, throughout the year.

The real strength of our EIS and EUtop50

networks is that we are connecting the dots

across Europe, and along the value chain

through our events, while also providing

intelligence for knowledge owners and on

innovation funding and fnancing sources and

instruments at EU, national and regional levels.

About the author

Dr Roland Strauss is the Co-

Founder and Managing Director of

Knowledge4Innovation, which spearheads

the European Innovation Summit and

EUtop50 festival. An impactful and results-

driven platform, it also brings together

innovation leaders from the private, public

and academic sectors. Roland is also a

business entrepreneur, and managing

partner at Incubator Europe, a knowledge

hub striving to pave the way for solutions to

humanity’s most pressing challenges. He also

runs EU Innovation Trends, a news and events

platform covering EU funding, technology,

innovation and digital transformations.

EU Top 50 2017, European Parliament, Brussels

Listen

to Roland speaking

about the EUtop50

Founders + Tech Festival.

illions of

people in

rural Africa

life more than a day of

traveling away from the

next doctor – with

little to no access to

basic health. BISA “Ask

Your Doctor Online”

gives remote people in

Africa access to health.

In G4I, BISA will

expand the well-

established service

from Ghana into

Senegal with a new

French version of

BISA’s app.

Company

BISA M-Health

Location

Ghana

G4I Pilot

Senegal

Scalability

Africa

NGO Partner

YOU Foundation

Meet your doctor online service app

Goal: Disrupt the way how people in remote areas of Africa gain 1st access to doctors and hospitals.

Bayer

Foundations

Alumni 2018

T

he 2018 Bayer Foundations Alumni day this summer in Berlin included

the inspiring Grants4Impact (G4I) fnal. This is the energiser programme

from Bayer Foundations, which grants one million euros to social impact

pioneers transforming the worlds of health and nutrition. Thimo V. Schmitt-Lord,

CEO at Bayer Foundations, opened the pitches session with stories and insight

on the global roadshow he led with his team to identify innovative solutions to the

world’s most pressing problems.

“If you want to be a start-up billionaire - you have to solve a billion people’s problem,” Thimo said.

From 11 fnalists, the winners were: COOLAR, iBreastExam, SANISOLAR , BISA and SafetyNet.

They will now be ‘connected to knowledge, power and funding in order to grow and transform good

ideas into global game-changer solutions’ as part of a 24-month programme.

The 5 G4I winners

have the collective

power to solve

challenges that over

2 billion people on

the planet are facing!

Alumni 2018

Alumni 2018

Company

COOLAR

Founder

Christoph Göller

Location

Germany

G4I Pilot

Kenya

Scalability

Global

NGO Partner

UNHCR, Médecins

sans Frontières,

Kenyan Ministry

of Health

ood and drug safety is at risk

in large parts of the world

because of a lack of power

supply for cooling devices. Solar

devices or batteries often fail due

to high maintenance need under

harsh climate conditions. COOLAR

is revolutionary new cooling

system based on adsorption

cycle technology involving NO

electricity and no moving parts

whatsoever.

In G4I, Coolar will do intense

feld studies in refugee camps and

medical missions in Africa.

Electricity-free

cooling for drugs

& food

Goal: Secure food/drug safety through

new cooling system based on adsorption

cycle technology

reast cancer is the most

common invasive cancer in

women worldwide. Survival

rates difer largely, depending

on the stage in which a tumor is

detected – making early screening

so important. Women in low-

and-middle income regions are

diagnosed at late stages since

mammograms are not available.

This is why 70% of all breast cancer

deaths occur in these regions.

iBreastExam has the power to

change: it is a revolutionary

handheld breast cancer screening

device with the capability to

providing early breast cancer

screening everywhere in the world.

In the G4I pilot, iBreast will

scale-up in Brazil to reach 10.000

women that have no access to

regular screening.

Handheld breast cancer screening device

Company

iBreast Exam

Founder

Mihir Shah

Location

USA

G4I Pilot

Brazil

Scalability

Global

NGO

Partner

DASA

Goal: Provide breast cancer mass screenings in the remotest areas of the world.

Alumni 2018

Smart nets for

selective fishery

7 million tons of

unwanted bycatch

are thrown dead back

into the sea every year - one

of the main causes for over-

fshing and a big challenge

to stop food waste.

SafetyNet creates Smart

Lightening devices for

Selective Fishery - the

technology uses specifc

light spectrums to attract

and de-attract fsh species

selectively into the nets.

This avoids by catch and

fghts overfshing.

In G4I, SafetyNet will

operate a pilot in Indonesia,

putting 120 lightening

devices to work and

analyzing its success.

2

billion people on the

planet have no access to

sanitation due to a lack

of sufcient infrastructures

such as sewers, water or

latrine maintenance.

Sani Solar is a sun powered

drying toilet providing a

maintenance free and

sewer-independent sanitation

solution for hot climate zones.

In G4I, SaniSolar

implements a pilot with up

to 20 devices in the

Northeast of Brazil.

Company

SafetyNet

Founder

Dan Watson &

Nadia Laabs

Location

UK

G4I Pilot

Indonesia

Scalability

Global

NGO

Partner

Mantawatch

Company

SANI SOLAR

Founder

Dr. Jochen

Scheerer

Location

Germany

G4I Pilot

Brazil

Scalability

hot climate

zones

NGO

Partner

Habitat For

Humanity

Goal: Make fishing smart – avoid bycatch and

fight overfishing the oceans.

Goal: revolutionary new cooling system based on

adsorption cycle technology without any electricity.

Sun-powered

maintenance free

sanitation

 Two year program with full access to

Bayer Foundation’s global network of

experts and leaders.

 Professional pitch coaching and

storytelling support.

 Idea challenging and feedback from

industry research experts and VCs.

 Up to 150,000€ in cash per team.

 High visibility through PR partnerships

as well as presence at leading events.

 Active match-making with VCs and

Bayer businesses for global roll-out and

up-scaling after G4I.

G4I is operated in the Bayer Foundation

and embedded within ‘Grants4-’family.

G4I connects impact pioneers in health

and nutrition to bigger funding pools,

knowledge and power in order to unleash

their scale-up potential for the beneft of

the rising billions in need.

What

participants

gain...

Dan Watson

from SafetyNet

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