A consortium called Innovators 2021, including the Pulavian Park of Science and Technology as a leader and with a special purpose company of AGH Center of Innovative Technologies INNOAGH and the University of Life Sciences in Poznań as partners, won the competition for the operator of the “Originator Zone” and received funding from the Ministry of Development, Labor and Technology as part of the pilot project “Originator Zone – support 4.0”. The co-financing amount is PLN 5 million.  

Under the “Originators Zone” project, Polish innovators will receive support in implementing their innovative solutions or original concepts, they will experiment and test, gain knowledge and check whether their ideas have technological and business potential.

As part of the project, they will receive support for a total of 1,000 ideas in five incubation rounds (200 ideas in each round). The best ideas will be qualified for the next stages. Their authors will receive financial support for the development of the concepts and will be able to present them before investors to obtain funding for setting up a company.