European Bridges of Innovation | Greece × France × Italy: Connecting Businesses, Ideas & Opportunities

“European Bridges of Innovation” event brings together businesses and organisations from Greece, France and Italy in Athens to explore commercial partnerships, assess technology solutions and discover opportunities across key European innovation ecosystems.

Organised by JOIST, Vetorialle and OVERGAP, the one-day event combines a practical business agenda with targeted matchmaking across four priority sectors. The programme offers opportunities to exchange market insights, meet professionals with complementary expertise and consider how technology can address specific business needs.

Bring a business challenge, a market-ready solution or a proposal for a joint project. Join us to discuss what your organisation can contribute, understand what potential partners are looking for and explore the next steps for working together.

THEMATIC PILLARS

From Innovation to Market

Explore how research and technology can become commercially viable products and services. Topics include technology scouting, pilot projects and validation, R&D commercialisation, and collaboration between established companies and startups.

Cross-Border Market Access

Understand what it takes to establish a presence in another market. Discussions cover soft-landing approaches, finding local partners and distributors, and using customer discovery and market intelligence to assess business opportunities.

Technology for Real Business Challenges

Examine how technology can address operational challenges, from improving productivity and quality to managing energy use and maintenance. Discussions also cover data use and business resilience, with an emphasis on practical applications.

From Connections to Partnerships

Identify potential partners across the three countries and explore opportunities to develop joint innovation projects. Topics include consortium building, partner search and EU funding opportunities that could support these collaborations.

SECTOR FOCUS

The programme addresses these business priorities across four sectors:

🡢 #1 Smart Industry & Manufacturing

🡢 #2 Energy & Sustainable Industry

🡢 #3 Food, Agri-food & Production Technologies

🡢 #4 Defence, Cybersecurity & Dual-Use Technologies

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Industrial companies, small and medium-sized enterprises seeking technology, business partners or new markets.
• Startups and scale-ups with market-ready solutions.
• Research organisations and technology providers.
• Clusters, chambers of commerce and business associations.
• Investors and funding bodies active in Greece, France and Italy.

Continue the conversation beyond the sessions and get to know the people behind the participating businesses. The day’s networking opportunities offer a more casual setting to exchange experiences, explore shared business interests and make contacts you can follow up with after the event.