{"id":20078,"date":"2019-08-19T14:32:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T11:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/?p=20078"},"modified":"2019-08-19T14:33:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T11:33:45","slug":"20078","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/20078\/","title":{"rendered":"Circular Economy Conference and Matchmaking Event &#8211; Sept. 24-25, 2019, Oslo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20081 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Norway-Grants-Networking-event-300x126.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Norway-Grants-Networking-event-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Norway-Grants-Networking-event-768x322.jpg 768w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Norway-Grants-Networking-event-1024x429.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Norway-Grants-Networking-event-600x251.jpg 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Norway-Grants-Networking-event-260x109.jpg 260w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Norway-Grants-Networking-event-50x21.jpg 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Norway-Grants-Networking-event-150x63.jpg 150w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Norway-Grants-Networking-event.jpg 1051w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/>Bulgarian companies are invited to take part in the\u00a0conference and matchmaking event <a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbreaking-barriers.b2match.io%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGalina.Vassileva%40innovationnorway.no%7Cd6ada5c1e3b0482a59ed08d724821ff7%7Cc39d49f79eed4307b032bb28f3cf9d79%7C1%7C0%7C637018013606562140&amp;sdata=6D5UptPepbv1oOMbzK5vR83zGtdiaXAU%2F4JK8B4%2FbZc%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Breaking the barriers in a Circular Economy&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 to be held\u00a0in the frame of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Foiw.no%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGalina.Vassileva%40innovationnorway.no%7Cd6ada5c1e3b0482a59ed08d724821ff7%7Cc39d49f79eed4307b032bb28f3cf9d79%7C1%7C0%7C637018013606562140&amp;sdata=ja6auGbncYQSMZVmWL7ZpKhj%2FyW2uZYC0UfZyIvTv8k%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oslo Innovation Week<\/a>\u00a0in Norway, September, 24<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 25<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event is organised by Innovation Norway\u00a0and it aims at providing a platform for discussing on-going trends and challenges, inform about specific opportunities under the upcoming calls linked to the EEA and Norway Grants and most importantly, provide an organised matchmaking for potential project partners across Europe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<strong>\u00a0tentative agenda\u00a0<\/strong>of the event is available <a href=\"https:\/\/breaking-barriers.b2match.io\/agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Participation and\u00a0target group<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Potential applicants of EEA\/Norway Grants Programmes,\u00a0<strong>i.e. SMEs\u00a0<\/strong>from<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Poland, Romania.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Please note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Only participants that would be eligible applicants for joint projects under the EEA and Norway Grants will be considered for the event.\u00a0<u>This\u00a0<strong>does exclude<\/strong>\u00a0consultancy companies from<\/u>\u00a0participating.<\/li>\n<li>Merely selling services\/products do not qualify as relevant for participation. The event is about finding partners for joint projects. This means Bulgarian SMEs need to offer a partnership or look for collaboration with a Norwegian partner to carry out a project. If a clear need for partnership\/collaboration cannot be found in the profile, then the participant should not be admitted to the event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Target group \u2013 Topics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These should be planning projects towards development, innovation, research within:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Reducing material and resource inputs<\/li>\n<li>Maintaining the value of products, materials and resources for as long as possible<\/li>\n<li>Minimising the generation of waste<\/li>\n<li>Replacing non-renewable resources with biomass<\/li>\n<li>protecting oceans and land from waste and litter by remediating existing concentrates, mitigating new pollution and developing biodegradable bio plastics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number of available seats per country is limited ( max. 8 ). In case you are interested to attend the event, please apply for participation no later than\u00a0<strong>Friday, 30 August 2019<\/strong>\u00a0on:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbreaking-barriers.b2match.io%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGalina.Vassileva%40innovationnorway.no%7Cd6ada5c1e3b0482a59ed08d724821ff7%7Cc39d49f79eed4307b032bb28f3cf9d79%7C1%7C0%7C637018013606572135&amp;sdata=cDAIRD2ShLwZV4mtyuFFIgzF18joRqOM%2FiSNZDDtHYs%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">breaking-barriers.b2match.io<\/a>. Companies will be selected by an established committee, based on the above mentioned criteria and the financial standing of the company. Those ones approved for participation will be validated by Innovation Norway and could start booking B2B-speed meetings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The participants\u00a0in the event may receive a travel grant of EUR 1&#8217;000 from Innovation Norway for covering their travel and accommodation costs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Should you have any questions or need additional clarifications, please feel free to contact the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innovasjonnorge.no\/bgbusiness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">organisers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulgarian companies are invited to take part in the\u00a0conference and matchmaking event &#8220;Breaking the barriers in a Circular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}