● 28-30 June 2022 ● All members

European Robotics Forum + Call for participants: ERF Entrepreneurship Award 2022

The most influential meeting of the robotics community in Europe, European Robotics Forum 2022 (ERF 2022), will be held between 28 – 30 June, 2022 in Rotterdam, and the prestigious ERF Entrepreneurship Award 2022 will be given out during the event - apply now!

The most influential meeting of the robotics community in Europe, European Robotics Forum 2022 (ERF 2022), will be held between 28 – 30 June, 2022 in Rotterdam.

ERF is a top-notch international forum, spanning both academia and industry. It aims to foster communication and knowledge transfer between researchers and practitioners and covers all aspects and current themes related to the field of robotics. Researchers, engineers, managers, and a growing number of entrepreneurs, business people, and public funding officers from all over Europe use ERF to discuss technology push and market pull and how innovation in robotics and AI can be accelerated.

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Event

Full programme

The European Robotics Forum Programme 2022 includes plenaries, workshops, academic track, social activities, exhibition and many more activities combining knowledge sharing, interactivity, networking and fun.

The event starts on Tuesday morning on 28 June 2022, with registration and ends on Thursday 30 June 2022. Site events on Monday 27 June and Friday 1 July are available.

Please note that eventual programme changes may apply.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARD 2022

The Entrepreneurship workshop lets small innovative companies pitch their ideas for the next big thing in robotics to a panel of technology investment experts. Entrants stand the chance to gain valuable skills in how to pitch an investment idea together with the potential to gain interest in their company from the investment community.

ERF Entrepreneurship Award 2022

ERF has invited all entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs in the robotics field to join the competition for the prestigious ERF Entrepreneurship Award.

The euRobotics Entrepreneurship Award is given out each year at the European Robotics Forum (ERF) to the most promising robotic startup as judged by a jury of robotics entrepreneurship pioneers and experts.

Entrants to the competition stand the chance to gain interest in their company from the robotics and investment community. The 2022 edition of the Entrepreneurship Award will take place as part of the European Robotics Forum.

Benefits from participation

Five participants will be selected as Finalists and have ERF attendance paid for one person. The Finalists will pitch in the open Entrepreneurship Award workshop along with a robotic entrepreneurship role model and will receive a Finalists diploma and recognition in ERF and euRobotics social media.

For the 1^st placed participant a cash price of € 2.500 is awarded.

All qualified entrants will receive feedback on their pitch and project from the screening committee and an offer of a further 5 hours of counselling from European level robotic entrepreneurship experts.

The Entrepreneurship Award winner will additionally receive extended coverage on ERF social media and recognition in ERF public promotion materials and in a press release and an ERF Entrepreneurship Award winner diploma.