In September 2022, we finally brought together (in person or online) the tourism and non-tourism companies that had registered for the EU ECO-TANDEM Biz Programme.
Project partners from Italy, Germany and Slovakia organised 3 local matchmaking events. Let's have a look!
September 6th – German matchmaking event at Rent24 coworking
Our partners ITKAM and HHL kicked off the matchmaking series with an hybrid event in Berlin, one of the European Capitals of startups!
The Berlin event was an opportunity for German participants and their pre-matches to receive more detailed information about the next steps, to network and to clarify some doubts about the programme rules.
On the day of the event, 16 TANDEMs made their creation official by signing the Commitment Agreement.
September 13rd – Slovak event in Bratislava
One week after, our Slovak partner SBA hosted the second matchmaking events in Bratislava. The hybrid event was addressed mainly to a Slovak public.
As with the event in Berlin, participants received information about the project and were able to network.
The event was also attended by local tourism representatives, such as Marek Harbuľák, president of the Slovak Tourism Association and František Stano, executive director of Bratislava Region Tourism. Ample space was given to the presentation of sustainable tourism initiatives in Slovakia.
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September 14th – Italian online event
The event was co-hosted by X23 and SocialFare (Emma Tsai, Quynh Nhu Nguyen, Matteo Lupetti) and had the opportunity to have as a keynote Silvia Livoni Colombo, an expert in territorial and lifestyle marketing and cycle tourism.
During the event, the participating companies received information about the next steps to finalise TANDEMs, had the opportunity to network and discuss the challenges for sustainable tourism. Highlights of the day were Silvia Livoni Colombo's talk on the perspectives of green tourism, as well as partner Uni Graz's sneak peak on the Masterclass in which companies are invited to participate.
For the latecomers: mini-matching on October 4th
To give even latecomers a chance to find a match, we organised one last online mini-matchmaking on 4 October 2022.
Companies had the opportunity to introduce themselves and network, in order to find the right match.
20 companies participated in the mini-matchmaking, of which more than half found a partner.
With 56 TANDEMs created, we are now ready to go. Stay tuned for the EU ECO-TANDEM Biz programme!
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