Regione Lombardia launches 'Startup Days

(Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor) - Encouraging the growth of start-ups through contacts with potential investors, so as to consolidate projects capable of generating added value for the economy. The Lombardy Region is pursuing its strategy to support innovative business initiatives, promoted by the Councillor for Economic Development, Guido Guidesi. With this in mind, the 'Startup Days' events, scheduled for 23 and 29 October in Milan, have been organised in synergy with Musa (Multilayered urban sustainability action), an entity that brings together several Lombardy universities and public and private partners to address the challenges of environmental and social sustainability. In particular, Palazzo Lombardia, the seat of the Region, will host meetings between emerging start-ups, investors and industry professionals, in order to facilitate direct and targeted interactions and create fertile ground for future collaborations. The aim is to give a new generation of entrepreneurs the chance to consolidate their work, giving concreteness and solidity to start-ups that will be able to generate innovation, employment and induced activities, offering an important contribution to maintain and indeed implement - as underlined by the Department for Economic Development - Lombardy's economic-social supremacy at international level.

With regard to the "Startup Days", the final of StartCup Lombardia 2024, the competition organised by Lombardy's universities and university incubators and promoted by the Lombardy Region and Musa to encourage the birth of new innovative enterprises, is scheduled for 23 October: the finalist start-ups will have the opportunity to present their projects to a jury of experts and potential investors, with the aim of winning a cash prize that will support their entrepreneurial journey. The second stage of the 'Startup Days', on 29 October, is an absolute novelty and concerns 'FutureMatch - Connect Today, Create Tomorrow', a new format created to foster direct contact between start-ups and those willing to invest. The event includes two sessions: one dedicated to the Berkeley SkyDeck Europe programme, the Milan-based start-up accelerator that offers emerging companies direct access to the Silicon Valley ecosystem, and the other dedicated to the 'Green Chemistry Competition' to promote start-ups operating in the field of sustainable chemistry.

"With the 'Startup Days', Musa's commitment to supporting innovative start-ups becomes even more concrete. These events aim to create an environment conducive to innovation, promoting projects that have the potential to generate significant impacts both locally and internationally, and Musa was born with this very objective. Supporting StartCup Lombardy and FutureMatch is therefore part of this commitment, and allows us to contribute to making Lombardy the leader in Italy for innovative start-ups, offering young entrepreneurs the opportunity to transform their ideas into concrete solutions for a more inclusive and sustainable technological future,' commented Giovanna Iannantuoni, president of Musa.

Startcup Lombardia and FutureMatch are organised by Regione Lombardia and Musa, together with PoliHub, Politecnico di Milano, Università degli Studi di Milano, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, B4i - Bocconi for innovation, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Iulm - Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca and Fondazione UniMi. For information: www.startcuplombardia.it - www.musascarl.it and www.regione.lombardia.it