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Who we are

The PITCCH project aims to promote Open Innovation by building a European Network where technology centres facilitate the establishment of structured collaborations between big corporations as technology seekers with SMEs as technology providers.

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Choose your organisation type and learn about benefits for your company or community. Join us if you work for EEN local support offices, cluster, incubator, accelerator, association, network or other open innovation networks or platforms and become our Ambassador.

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Big Corporation SME or Startup Technology Centre Ecosystem support

European priority areas and global challenges

Sectors
Technologies

Climate, energy and mobility

Digital, industry and space

Health

Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture and environment

Civil security and society

Photonics

Nanotechnology

Micro/nano- electronics

Industrial biotechnology

Advanced materials

Advanced manufacturing

Digital technologies

Tentative TIMELINE

PITCCH process for the 3rd cut-off explained

We welcome companies to submit a technological challenge for the new PITCCH round. See how the PITCCH process is organised.

Call for corporate challenges. 20 December – 14 February 2022.

Call for solution providers. 1 March - 12 April 2022.

Technology Centres can engage with SMEs and Startups once they are a part of the Network.

Big corporations select winners and start the collaboration project with the support of technology centre. 19 April - 3 May

Platform

Join PITCCH Platform

PITCCH platform is an effective and convenient tool to find your business partner. The big corporations can launch a corporate challenge free of charge. SMEs and Startups can register and respond to active challenges. Meanwhile, technology centres can follow challenges, offer their expertise to SMEs and participate in a collaboration project. We also welcome other organisations that would like to accelerate technological collaborations in your region or community.

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ONGOING COLLABORATIONS