DLT4EU project is live!
We are very happy to announce that the DLT4EU project has started! The three teams from the consortium joined efforts in Amsterdam the last 27th and 28th January to kickoff the project and organize the following months of activity.
The new DLT4EU programme is an accelerator that will identify and link Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) initiatives with leading public and private sector organisations. We aim to promote the development of projects that use blockchain and other distributed technologies (DLT) to solve social and environmental challenges for public good.
The Call for Applicants will open in early April and we will soon share precise details on how to participate, what are the specific challenges we want to launch, who is behind each of the challenges and some guidelines on the nature of the participation. We are seeking applicant teams to develop practical solutions to urgent challenges in the fields of the circular economy and digital citizenship, two critical areas of great impact for the European economy. Practical interventions will include: supply chain transparency, tracking and tracing; and systems for digital identify, inclusion, and participation.
Who is behind DLT4EU?
The DLT4EU project is led by a consortium of three organisations specialized in distributed technologies, digital social innovation and environmental sustainability: Ideas for Change, (Barcelona); Metabolic, (Amsterdam); and Digital Catapult, (London).
Agenda and participants journey
DLT4EU has started this past January and will be running for the next 15 months. The initial phase of mapping and identification of challenges and participants will be followed by a Call for applicants, whose finalists will begin the acceleration process in July and will work for six months at the Virtual Field Lab (VFL) accelerator. This innovative labs will combine virtual mentoring with in-person bootcamps (hosted in Amsterdam, Barcelona and London).
At the end of the accelerator, venture teams will submit functional prototypes (Proof of Concepts) that help solve the chosen challenge. The winners will be announced at a final event in Brussels in March 2021 and awarded follow-on funding to develop the PoC further.