Wrapping the Year 2023 Part 2

We support the Entrepreneurial mindset through courses, workshops, prizes, matchmaking, and networking. The year 2023 was full of such activities. Here is just a summary, there are many more where You can participate and start your entrepreneurial journey.

The Core entrepreneurial series has been STARTERtallinn. I and my team members have been involved in weekly meetings and Mentor nights to show the raw materials sector as one of the key industry for future technologies.

STARTERtallinn is the business idea development program by Tallinn University , TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology , Estonian Academy of Arts , Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre , Estonian Business School , and Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences / EEK Mainor .

Sister programme STARTERtartu provides workshops and webinars supervised by entrepreneurs, field experts, and mentors.? Mentors are start-up founders or entrepreneurs from different business sectors. University of Tartu is the main contributor to STARTERtartu.

STARTERtallinn's last run was in the Autumn semester of 2023. EIT RawMaterials RIS Hub Baltic has been giving out Mentoring tickets to the Teams who can be linked with the raw materials sector on their entrepreneurial journey.

The awarded teams in 2023 are:

• team Ehitusnurk
• team Briny
• team TraynMe
• team Pikker

EIT HEI Initiative gave the funding to UNIcorn (cohort 1) and UNITeD (cohort 3), and these activities have allowed to reflect the entrepreneurial mindset of TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology . Thank you to the colleagues who have been part of it Katre Eljas , Kristina Babelyte-Labanauske, RTTP , Mart Repnau , Kristy T?ttar , Rasmus Kalep , Vytenis Mockus and all others who are part of the activities.

sTARTUp Day Festival gives the another angle to Entrepreneurship. Consider the Demo Area your entrepreneurial haven. This is where you’ll find all of the latest innovations. Take a look, and you’ll discover new products, friends, opportunities, and perhaps – your next career challenge.

Tehnopol Startup Incubator, together with the Estonian Business Angels Network (EstBAN) , Tallinn University of Technology, and Startup Estonia , have initiated a series of events focused on deep technology, named Deeptech Sandbox.

These events aimed to enhance the growth of Estonia’s deep technology ecosystem by welcoming experts from leading European centres ( DTU - Technical University of Denmark , 英国剑桥大学 , and Eindhoven University of Technology ) to share their expertise.

TechChill is an event where over 2000 people gather annually in Riga, Latvia, for the TechChill conference.

In Junction hackathons, we bring together developers, designers and other tech-minded people to create new projects and solve intriguing challenges. In order to offer our participants the most stimulating problems and latest technology, we partner with roughly 60 companies yearly. In addition, we organize meetups, speaker events, workshops and more. The event-filled year peaks annually with our flagship event, Junction, held in Finland with around 1500 developers and designers in attendance every year.

We believe that technology is a powerful tool when used right, and everybody should have the possibility to build meaningful things with it: that's why all of our events are centered around learning and creating with technology.

Innovation Leaders Club

The Innovation Leaders Club is a community whose joint activities pave the way for innovative future solutions that put Estonian companies at the forefront of innovation in the world.

The trump card of the joint events is practical content, during which new innovation trends and tools are introduced, skills are exchanged to solve innovation-related challenges, contacts are established both with each other and with start-ups, and cooperation agreements are concluded.

The ultimate goal of all activities is to achieve real cooperation, which Tehnopol helps to implement through personal mentoring.

TalTech Circular Economy Core Lab (CECL) connects TalTech researchers who are investigating the circular economy in their specific research topic. CECL is a co-working platform for the researchers.

Latitude59 x Tallinn - Latitude59 is the flagship startup and tech event of the world’s first digital society. Come join the unicorns of the North.

Latitude59xKenya - Latitude59 Kenya Edition is an official satellite event of Latitude59, opening doors to East Africa & connecting the international tech community.

#FEM2023Levi

The 14th Fennoscandian Exploration and Mining Conference (FEM), was held in Levi, Lapland, Finland. As customary, our participants represent a wide range of exploration and mining sector companies operating in the Fennoscandian region, key stakeholders, public authorities, and businesses supporting the industry. TalTech was out with the booth where we introduced our ways and support programmes and courses for Industry.

Thank you to the co-travellers for the FEM: Sophie Graul , Nthati Monei (PhD) , Tony Hand , Karin Robam , Karin K??r. The next FEM will be in 2025. Book the dates already!

To build sustainability measure points for your activities. First, you need to map them and see the changes annually. To plan the measure points - for that here are some hints:

Hint 1: Participate in the full-online course "Circular Economy for Materials Processing." registration for the Spring semester 2024 is already open. The course is awarded with "E-education Quality Mark".

Hint 2: Recently the Horizon 2020 project RE-SOURCING was ended. Download the sector Roadmaps and other useful materials from the project outputs.

Hint 3: Recently the Horizon 2020 project SUMEX was ended. See the sustainability cases in extractive industries. To get an overview of the sustainability in extractive industries, then listen to the podcast that summarises it. If you have your own opinion on that, then let's discuss that here (LinkedIn group): Sustainable Management in the Extractive Sector: Navigating Challenges and Forging New Paths

This summarises some of the entrepreneurial mindset and part of the journey in #Year2023 .

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