First Innovation Café was held on 08.06.2018. at Hotel Europe in Sarajevo organized by CEE FREIRAUM and FITT. The Innovation Cafe has brought together a large number of students, investors and bh. companies, incubators, hubs, universities. Some of them are Masterwerk GmbH, Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE), MOZAIK, DKR, ” AutoTech ”, ” Elins Panic ”, HUB387, University of Sarajevo, University of Zenica, Technological Park Beograd, etc.
There are ten startups featuring SMART BALL EXTINGUISHER (Tuzla), BOOKVAR (Sarajevo), Digiqal (Mostar), HaBEEtat (Sarajevo), BSG (Mostar), BizzCity (Ilijaš), Smart Bag (Sarajevo), UDS GAME , Zvekir (Sarajevo), VIDIOVO (Sarajevo).
The winner was HaBEEtat because it’s the best fit for the current needs of the international market.
The next Innovation Café will be held in Tuzla in July this year, and the organizing team will invite other startups, students, investors, experts, universities and all interested parties to join them. For any questions, please contact: i.sehic@ceefreiraum.com
CEE FREIRAUM is a project that has emerged as an initiative of SCE from Munich and the Foundation for Innovation, Technology and Knowledge Transfer – FITT from Tuzla as an idea for startups and innovations from central and eastern Europe to support and come to the international market.
The main goal of CEE FREIRAUM is to scouting and educating young startups in BiH and the region. Startups will have the opportunity to develop new business ideas through education and mentoring of experts in the field of entrepreneurship. The ultimate goal is to support financially the best startups, give them the chance to emerge on the international market, present their ideas to the world’s largest companies and, in that sense, participate in an international event such as MUST Samit 2019.
CEE FREIRAUM wants to support the work of incubators and universities in BiH and the region, will bring together young and educated people and giving them the opportunity to turn their business ideas into reality.