The Business
Factory Auto has been recognized, in the category of best accelerator, in the
2020 South Europe Startup Awards, one of the most prestigious entrepreneurship
competitions in the world. This award recognizes the entrepreneurial spirit,
the capacity for disruptive innovation, the cohesion of the ecosystem and
collaboration for the benefit of the economic growth in the BFA environment.
This
recognition is part of the southern European competition and enables the BFA to
compete in the world gala against the winners of the other regions in the same
category.
The
award was collected yesterday, at a virtual gala, by the head of the BFA
Executive Committee, Jorge Gómara, who thanked the projects that have gone
through the accelerator, as they "help us improve" and recognized
that this award is a new reason for “continuing to promote innovation and
entrepreneurship” in Galicia, with a focus on the international area.
The
South Europe Startup Awards (SESA) were first launched in 2019 to connect
players in the startup ecosystem and drive their expansion into international
markets. 7 countries compete (Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal
and Spain) in 9 different categories.
With
this new recognition, the Business Factory Auto continues to consolidate itself
as a key part of the Galician Automotive Sector and proof of this are the
previous recognitions that it has already received, both in Spain and in
Europe, in recent years. In December 2018, the initiative was recognized
nationally by the National Federation of Innovative Business Groups and
Clusters (Fenaeic), with the award for the "Best Disseminated Project
2018", delivered during the VI National Congress of Clusters. In October
of the same year, it received the award for the "best practice developed
in a technology park" from the Association of Business and Technology
Parks of Spain (APTE) and was named "regional partner" in the Startup
Europe Awards, of character international, being the first automotive
accelerator in Europe to achieve this. In 2019, the BFA was recognized, also by
the Startup Europe Awards initiative of the Finnova Foundation and DG Connect,
as the first “Mobility Startup Europe House” for promoting essential values
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