Startup Europe Week
Startup Europe Week is a pan-European coordinated startup event series to promote entrepreneurship and to showcase the available local resources for startups and people looking to start a business. The initiative is also part of the wider Startup Europe initiative initiated by the European Commission to promote entrepreneurship across all 28 member states.
Founding Team
The initiative was founded in 2015 by Igor Tasic in collaboration with Startup Europe and the European Commission.
Organisational Structure
Whilst Startup Europe Week is coordinated by a team headed up by Igor Tasic, it heavily relies on local volunteers such as startups, entrepreneurs, and other volunteers to organise the local events. In order to take part in the event as Co-Organiser, one has to successfully pass a selection procedure including an application.
Startup Europe Week 2016
Startup Europe Week was officially launched on the 01/02/2016 at the Committee of the Regions in Brussels. followed by the first event series with over 200 co-organisers taking part across 14 European member states. The participating member states were Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, England, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and the Ukraine. Amongst the contributing organisations of Startup Europe Week 2016 were European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs, Youth Entrepreneurship Club, Digital Leadership Institute, DCU ALPHA Startup Manufactory Ltd, Startup Grind and many more.
Startup Europe Week 2017
The second EDition of Startup Europe Week will be launched on Monday, 6 February 2017 at the Microsoft Center in Brussels. Amongst the speakers are the Founder and CEO of Startup Europe Week Igor Tasic, John Frank, Vice-President, EU Government Affairs, Microsoft, Gerard de Graaf, Director DG Connect, European Commission, Andrus Ansip, Vice President of the European Commission and Alex Barrera, Cofounder Tech.eu, and Adina Valean, Chairwoman of the Committee for Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) at the European Parliament. The actual event series will be held in over 200 cities across all 28 member states in the week from the 6th to 10th of February 2017.