Europe needs innovation.
How cooperation is new
Horizons opened.

The EU Innovation Clubhouse on July 4, 2025, was all about how collaboration drives innovation in Europe. In inspiring impulses, a pecha-kucha with European flagship projects and a lively panel discussion, it became clear: bold cooperation across country and industry borders is the key to future-proof innovation. The Steinbeis Europa Centre, with its network, provided the ideal framework for exchanges and new partnerships. The event impressively demonstrated how Europe can become an engine of innovation through joint action.

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PROGRAMM, 4. JULY 2025

4. July 2025, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
SEZ Business x Lunch

Roberts - Cucina Italiana

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Europe needs innovation - How cooperation opens up new horizons

With Dr Jonathan Loeffler, Dr Michael Peschl, Prof Dr Carlo Burkhardt

An inspiring hour around the European spirit of innovation: two impulses show how bold cooperation across country and sector boundaries enables groundbreaking ideas. In the ensuing exchange, we discuss why cooperation is now more than ever the key to future-proof innovation – and how Europe is becoming home to true pioneers.

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
European innovations in flash

With Dr. Heiko Matheis, Elke Weidenfelder, Jacqueline Fritz, Dr. Marie-Eve Reinert

This Petcha Kutcha-style session presents innovative European projects – from all over Europe and from very different fields. Each flash is exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds. Not a second too much, not a second too little.

Experience how Europe lives innovation – in fast forward!

3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Shaping the future: Thinking disruptively, acting together

With Sebastian Große-Puppendahl, Dr. Jonathan Loeffler, Dr. Michael Peschl, Prof. Dr. Carlo Burkhard, Dr. Heiko Matheis

Disruptive innovations turn business models, markets and technologies on their head – but real breakthroughs rarely succeed on their own. In this roundtable discussion, we address the question of how strategic cooperation can become an engine of innovation. Our panel lists report from your experience how cooperation can become a competitive advantage.

Discuss the following questions with us:

What speaks for working in a network?

How does cooperation become a sustainable success?

Where does funding for open innovation projects come from?