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Develop and share repeatable innovation solutions EU-wide so that everyone can benefit and build on innovation breakthroughs.

Provide a platform for interaction of women-led VCs and start ups. In addition, guidance and advice could be provided by the EIA to improve the chances of getting funded. According to the EIS 2021 report, most of EU-13 countries, representing over 80% of the total EU-13 population, are “Emerging Innovators” placed at the bottom of the EIS ranking. In EU-13 there are people with great education and potential, which is often wasted and “not working” for these countries, but also for the entire EU. Only because of the existing barriers they often cannot break through with ideas and successfully finalize the process of implementing innovations. We propose a joint discussion and development of specific dedicated mechanisms, such as: 1) mechanisms that could effectively overcome the existing barriers in the EU-13 and unlock their innovative potential, based on the experience of the EU “Innovation Leaders”, 2) mechanisms ensuring greater participation of innovative companies from EU-13, in projects financed under the EIC Accelerator HEU calls (e.g. an additional selection criterion for “ex aequo proposals” for wider inclusion of great companies from EU-13).