BoostUp! East 2024
BoostUp! is EIT Manufacturing’s flagship pitching competition. Its regional pendant, BoostUp! East, features top industrial startups from Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. Our main aim is to support startups to internationalise and scale up their business across Europe.
Under this year's theme of “data-driven manufacturing”, BoostUp! East 2024 is dedicated to supporting industrial solutions active in one of the following technology domains:
- Simulation & Advanced Engineering Tools
- Industrial VR/AR
- Industrial Robotics
- Logistics Tech
- Predictive Maintenance
- Advanced Sensors
- Advanced Detection (IR/Noise/etc.)
- Industrial Cybersecurity
- Connectivity and IoT Infrastructure
- Data analytics/AI
- Digital Twins
Participating startups will be assessed on the innovativeness of their solution, team strength and sustainability impact.
Green Innovation in Manufacturing Award
This year’s main cash prize – the “Green Innovation in Manufacturing Award” is sponsored by the Vienna Business Agency.
1st place:
- Monetary award of 5,000 EUR by Vienna Business Agency
- Tailored growth & service support package by EIT Manufacturing
2nd place:
- Tailored growth & service support package by EIT Manufacturing
3rd place:
- Tailored growth & service support package by EIT Manufacturing
Jury for BoostUp! East 2024:
- Eva Czernohorszky, Director Technology Services, Vienna Business Agency
- Jasmina Popovska, Head of Investments, EIT Manufacturing
EuProGigant Award
The Austrian-German research project EuProGigant (European Production Giganet) works on central questions related to “smart and sovereign use of data in manufacturing” and demonstrates how a highly networked production ecosystem can orchestrate itself, and be equipped with stabilising characteristics.
With its special award at the BoostUp! East 2024 startup pitching competition during the Manufacturing Day, EuProGigant supports startups to internationalise and scale up their data-driven business models, enabling data sharing collaborations between manufacturing stakeholders across Europe.
The EuProGigant Award is dedicated to supporting solutions contributing to build up federated data sharing services in a Manufacturing Data Ecosystem.
The pitching startups will be assessed by the innovativeness of their presented solution and its potential to enable data value chains, contributing to value creation for data (service/analysis) providers or consumers in manufacturing ecosystems.
The winners of the EuProGigant Award will receive:
1st place:
- Monetary award of 5,000 EUR
- Tailored growth & service support package by EIT Manufacturing
- Gaia-X Membership for one year
2nd place:
- Tailored growth & service support package by EIT Manufacturing
- Gaia-X Membership for one year
3rd place:
- Tailored growth & service support package by EIT Manufacturing
- Gaia-X Membership for one year
Jury for the EuProGigant Award:
- Wolfgang Kniejski, Senior Project Manager, EIT Manufacturing East
- Roland Fadrany, Chief Operating Officer, Gaia-X Association for Data and Cloud (AISBL)
- Martina Malakova, Coordinator, Gaia-X Hub Slovakia
