EU|BIC TagusValley in partnership with 10 other incubators of its region participates at the Incubação Centro 2016, IC|16 project. TAGUSVALLEY will support 17 projects and 32 entrepreneurs with 12 working sessions thanks to SPIN+ acceleration programme. SPIN+ is focused on the design and validation of business models in order to stimulate creativity and minimise the risks making the projects sustainable from idea to business.

SPIN+ will last 6 month, with a structure of 14 working groups that will be replicated in 3 different poles. 44 projects will be selected distributed all over the central region, being 17 projects hosted in TAGUSVALLEY.

In order to stimulate the progress of those projects and its acceleration to the market, each team will be accompanied not only by the technicians of the BIC, but more important by corporates of reference in the market as mentors.

The INCUBAÇÃO CENTRO 2016 – IC | 16 more than a mere collector of individual ideas of incubators, it intends to be a starting point and implementation of an integrated action to support entrepreneurship in the Central Region of Portugal.