The call Startup4Culture is online, the competition born from WMF – The largest Festival on Digital and Social Innovation, with the collaboration of the Digital Library of the Ministry of Culture (MiC), to foster the synergy between the cultural and technological sectors of the country , as well as between the public sector and private entrepreneurship. The call was created with the aim of identifying and supporting innovative projects that combine the cultural sector with that, to discover startups and companies with innovative and technological ideas, digital and digital projects capable of enhancing the Italian historical-cultural heritage. Indeed, the goal of WMF and Digital Library – from the sharing of ideas born last year with the participation of the MiC at WMF2021 – is to innovate the Italian cultural and creative sector thanks to the tools of digitization. All startups can participate with an innovative project capable of responding to the challenges of technological implementation in the cultural sector, with the aim of facilitating access and use of the country’s enormous historical, artistic and cultural heritage. The call closes on May 12, 2022. To apply, you must register using the form present at page. The final phase of Startup4Culture will be hosted during WMF2022 within the World Startup Fest, an event dedicated to startups and scaleups from all over the world that takes place within the WMF from 16 to 18 June. In this context, in a thematic area of ​​the Rimini fair called Startup District, there will be the Startup Stage with the pitches of 36 innovative startups selected from all over the world, Scaleup for Future, an initiative dedicated to the Italian and international scaleup world and numerous meetings B2B with investors, corporates and international representatives. Also noteworthy is the Startup Weekend, a 54-hour marathon promoted by Techstars that will involve 80 aspiring entrepreneurs in the co-design of concrete responses to the innovation needs of local communities. The final of the largest Startup Competition in Italy will also be held on the Mainstage.

The final phase of the Startup4Culture call
The WMF team, together with the MiC and the Digital Library, will select the finalists – among the proposals received – which will be announced on May 30th. These challenges will arise during the 2022 edition of the Festival – from 16 to 18 June at the Fiera di Rimini – through a pitch competition, and online on the hybrid platform. I Cosmano Lombardo, CEO of Search On Media Group and creator of the WMF: “The culture it is one of the pillars of our society and our country. We are happy with the Ministry of Culture and the Digital Library to support companies that work in the culture sector and that can further enhance the immense Italian artistic and cultural heritage. We are happy to encourage, together, the birth of new cultures “Laura Moro, Director of the Digital Library of the MiC:” For the second year we have chosen to participate in We make Future in the awareness that today it is essential to establish connections with related entrepreneurial realities to innovation. In this edition, therefore, we have also decided to co-organize a vertical startup competition that helps us to get to know the best young companies that have ideas and projects to face the digital challenges posed by the PNRR on the issues of management and enhancement of cultural heritage “All the finalist startups will have the opportunity to make their innovative and cultural project known to the festival audience and to be evaluated by the MiC Digital Library, as well as by the major players in the digital sector, by investors, incubators and corporates. The finalists will also be able to participate in a dedicated and organizational panel in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, access the Startup District, the exhibition area dedicated to startups from all over the world, and win the € 5,000 prize in consultancy services. by Cerca on Media Group, the organizer of the Festival.

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