Join the International Matchmaking Event on 14 June (online) - find your project partner!
When: 14 June, 10.30-11.30 (CEST)
You have an idea for the perfect lightweighting project, or you are already working on a proposal? Then join us for this international matchmaking webinar. The event will give you the opportunity to discuss project ideas and can help you building up a consortium.
In this event we invite you to give visibility to your Lightweighting R&D&I challenges and project ideas, or your industry-related implementations for which you are looking for partners. Our goal is to enable a strong European and global cooperation, but also to create awareness for the opportunities provided by Lightweighting.
What to expect?
The focus of this event is to give you and your project ideas the floor in order to discuss ideas, exchange experiences and to find the right partner for your consortium. Therefore, the event will mainly consist of your project pitches. Additionally, we will briefly illustrate the submission process.
What not to expect? We will not explain the funding conditions, eligibility criteria, national procedures etc. in detail. You can find detailed information on this including video clips of your national funding agency on the Eureka homepage.
What to do?
- Register on this b2match Website
- Add the International Matchmaking to your personal Agenda
- Important: If you would like to pitch your lightweighting project:
- Please prepare a pitch that can be presented in 3 minutes.
- Download a template for your pitch here.
- Register your pitch → Contact martin.zottler@biz-up.at from the ELA team with your filled out template.
- Optional: If you attend the Eureka Global Innovation Summit in İstanbul, there will be the option to participate in a hybrid setting. Contact michael.walch@ffg.at for details.
The event is hosted by ELA - European Lightweight Association in cooperation with ELCA – European Lightweight Cluster Alliance.
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Arrange Virtual Meetings - 1:1 networking via video calls
Virtual matchmaking is a quick and easy way to meet potential cooperation partners. You can request 1:1 meetings with other participants at any time (24/7) until 25 September 2024. This allows you to discuss cooperation for joint Eureka projects.
When requesting a meeting, you can choose the length of the meeting (15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes) and choose any time slot you want.
1) Registration
Register via the Register button.
2) Publish a business profile to showcase your needs
Create a clear and concise business profile to raise your visibility on the b2match platform.
Your profile should describe who you are, what you can offer to potential partners, and who you want to meet. A good profile will generate significantly more meeting requests. Create project cooperation opportunities for your envisioned projects.
3) Browse profiles of attendees
Go to the participants list to find out who is offering interesting and promising business opportunities. Browse published project cooperation opportunities and send meeting requests to those you want to meet.
4) Send & receive meeting requests
Select the meeting duration between 15, 30, 45 and 60 minutes. In the case of the long term matchmaking, select the date and time of the meeting and click Next.
5) Join the meeting
Access your meetings in My Agenda or Meetings, where you have your complete schedule for the event and the list of your meetings. Check your camera and microphone and don't be late!
How to initiate a Virtual Meeting?
- Identify promising participants on the Participants list or the Marketplace page on the event's website. Once you found a suitable meeting partner, click "Request meeting" to send them a meeting request.
- Use the Messages functionality to chat about common interests and availability.
- Click "View Profile →" to find out more about the participant
- If you would like to have a meeting with them, you can also request a meeting here.
- Check My agenda and Meetings for your schedule and your list of confirmed meetings.
- At the time of the meeting, go to the Meetings page and click on Start Meeting
- You can invite guests through the Invite guests button, or share your screen through the screen sharing button
- A virtual meeting can be started at any given time before its ending time and it won't stop automatically, one of the participants has to end it
- The remaining time will be displayed on the top left corner
- The next meeting card will be displayed with one minute before the next meeting
- Clicking on Start Next Meeting will end the current meeting and will start the next one
Technical requirements for Virtual meetings
The virtual meetings take place through the b2match video tool, which is integrated in the b2match platform and it doesn’t need to/it can't be downloaded.
- install the latest version of your browser
Use a device with an incorporated webcam or a webcam. Without the camera, the meeting can still take place in the audio mode.
Microphone and camera
You can test your microphone and camera in your Meetings list, once you are logged in to your b2match profile. In order to do this, you need to click the blue Camera and microphone test and follow the instructions.
If there are issues, the system will indicate the browser's documentation's regarding the microphone and camera usage
- browser's permissions to use the microphone and camera
- system's permissions for the microphone and camera
Additionally, you can do the following checks:
- test your microphone with other apps, such as Google Meet, Skype, Zoom, etc.
- run Twilio's network test, which will start an automatic diagnosis to check if Twilio has permission to use your microphone and camera
- Twilio is the name of the software we use for online meetings
