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Upcoming Event: Empowering Inclusive Entrepreneurship — LOTUS Project Workshop

Join us on December 1st, 2025 (12:00–14:00 CET) for an interactive online workshop focused on strengthening inclusive entrepreneurship within higher-education and innovation ecosystems.
This session—organized under the LOTUS Project—explores how gender, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) can meaningfully shape entrepreneurial contexts.

🔎 What to expect:
• Introduction to the LOTUS Project
• Gender & entrepreneurship: challenges & opportunities
• Practical DEI strategies in entrepreneurial settings
• Group activity: designing DEI measures
• Gender Impact Assessment basics
• Scenario exercise & practical application

📅 Date: December 1st, 2025
🕒 Time: 12:00–14:00 CET
🌐 Format: Online
👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/dVZaJ8j3

LOTUS Hackathon - The Call for Applications is Open!

The wait is over – applications for the LOTUS Open Innovation Hackathon #1 are now open!
Are you part of a team with a bold idea tackling sustainability or digital transformation? Apply now, choose one of our SDG-inspired challenges, and join innovators from across Europe for three days of collaboration, mentoring, and impact-driven creation.

📅 Deadline: Sunday, November 30th, 2025 | 23:59 CET
ℹ️ Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dChUEHbu
👉 Apply via: https://bit.ly/4qJd911

Introducing LOTUS – Empowering HEIs for Green & Digital Innovation

🌱 Introducing LOTUS – Empowering HEIs for Green & Digital Innovation 🌐

We are excited to officially launch LOTUS, a collaborative European initiative that aims to transform Higher Education Institutions into leaders of sustainable, inclusive, and innovation-driven entrepreneurship.
Over the next 25 months, LOTUS will:
🔹 Strengthen institutional innovation ecosystems
🔹 Train over 1,100 students and staff in green & digital entrepreneurship
🔹 Foster diversity, inclusion, and gender-responsive innovation
🔹 Build regional and European partnerships
🔹 Support start-ups through hackathons, bootcamps, and acceleration programs
Led by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), together with University of Strasbourg (France), DEUSTO University (Spain), University of Nicosia (Cyprus), and Ideas Forward, LOTUS brings together expertise across green transition, digital transformation, and entrepreneurial capacity-building.
Stay tuned as we share our activities, events, and impact!