Alvarez Bohl is a Peruvian B2B distributor that connects mass consumption brands (food, beverages, hygiene, etc.) with retailers.

As the firm delivers a wide range of goods across multiple cities in northern Peru, efficient storage, inventory control and transportation are crucial to Alvarez Bohl’s quality of service and reputation.

However, most warehouse management processes remain very manual (handwritten stock records, spreadsheet-based tracking, etc.) and time-consuming.

This can lead to:

• Outdated stock levels in the system that don’t match the physical inventory
• Misplaced pallets and incorrect shipments to retailers
• Issues to track batches and expiry dates.

As a consequence, Alvarez Bohl teams can struggle to respond to fluctuations in demand from retailers.

The firm may find itself in a stock-out situation when demand soars for a given product or in an overstock situation if demand drops.

In the FMCG industry, where margins are tight and volumes are high, these constant mismatches between system stocks and physical stocks can quickly translate into lost sales, retailer dissatisfaction, and higher logistics costs.

The smarter the warehouse, the simpler the work on the floor

Building Blocks is a Spanish startup that develops software solutions for warehouse logistics management. 

Its solution provides control and analysis tools for warehouse management. It also leverages AI to provide deeper insights into stock, operators, and processes.

By progressively adopting Building Blocks’ solution, Alvarez Bohl achieves new logistical capacities:

• Real-time stock visibility

Alvarez Bohl can see exactly how many units of each product are available, which pallets are damaged, and which are near expiry. This prevents overpromising to retailers and allows quick reactions to demand spikes.

• Automated inventory tracking

Building Blocks replaces manual counts with digital scanning and AI-based tracking, reducing human errors such as misplaced products or incorrect stock records.

• Optimised storage

The system suggests the best locations for fast-moving products and guides warehouse operators on the most efficient picking routes, saving time and reducing labour costs.

• AI-driven demand insights

Building Blocks analyses historical orders and current stock trends to predict which products will need replenishment soon, helping Alvarez Bohl prevent stock-outs or overstocking.

The EU-LAC Digital Accelerator helps turn a warehouse pilot into a scalable Latin American expansion

• Service n°1: PoC Design & Prototyping

The Proof of Concept Design & Prototyping service provides a structured framework for the warehouse digitisation pilot, testing processes with clear KPIs such as inventory accuracy, receiving time, replenishment efficiency, and picking errors. 

The solution is deployed in a controlled warehouse section, allowing operators to follow structured workflows while monitoring results in real time. 

This approach quickly identifies bottlenecks or training gaps, clarifies expectations and success criteria, and validates whether the AI-powered solution improves efficiency and reduces errors before a wider rollout.

• Service 2: International growth & Soft landing 

The International Growth & Soft Landing service will help Building Blocks design a strategy to expand its warehouse digitisation solution into Latin American markets by identifying:

– Entry barriers: e.g. Regulatory requirements for software and data.
– Key opportunities: e.g. Large FMCG distributors with complex logistics, warehouses struggling with manual processes.
– Best practices: e.g. Integrating with widely used regional ERP systems, and training local warehouse operators.

30% faster replenishment. 15% quicker truck processing. 10% fewer picking errors.

Emporium Partners is a firm specialised in the procurement and logistics of electronic components (semiconductors, sensors, resistors, etc.).

The company acts as an intermediary between electric component manufacturers and distributors, on the one hand, and industrial manufacturers that need these components, on the other.

With operations primarily in Europe, Asia, and the US, Emporium aims to make its processes more circular as it expands into Latin America.

In other words, it is crucial to extend the equipment lifecycle and value for its customers to develop a more robust presence in Latin America.

Until recently:

• Emporium lacked a structured approach to delivering reliable technical support for its equipment. This could lead to customer frustration, as interventions may rely on non-certified technicians or remote guidance.
  
• Without a global circular process to enable repair or revalorisation, old or damaged equipment ends up being binned and wasted.
  

With Siembras’ platform, Emporium customers can locate trusted technicians and solve issues fast

Siembras de Origen is a Colombian-based startup that set up a B2B digital platform connecting and optimising supply chains by enabling transparent, compliant, and efficient trade of bio-products.

Electric components, as such, are not bio-products. Nevertheless, Siembras de Origen adapted the platform to cater to Emporium’s needs.

Siembras’ customised platform:

• Includes a directory of certified technicians: customers can quickly locate trusted local technicians, reducing downtime and improving confidence in Emporium’s equipment.

• Provides training, learning and certification journeys for technicians: Emporium ensures a consistent standard of technical service, lowering installation and maintenance errors while building a skilled regional workforce.

• Builds knowledge for installation, maintenance, repair, and remanufacturing: Emporium can capture and reuse technical know-how, speeding up service delivery, reducing repeat mistakes, and supporting circular-economy practices for long-term equipment value.

Such features will enable digital traceability by recording each piece of equipment’s location, maintenance history, and technician interventions. This data will then support predictive maintenance, alerting Emporium to service needs before failures occur, reducing downtime and extending equipment life.

EU-LAC Digital Accelerator: A two-step process to turn a prototype into a multi-country operations plan

The EU-LAC Digital Accelerator first established an acceleration roadmap, including scope, milestones and KPIs, before delivering two services to the corporate-startup partnership:

• Service n°1: PoC design & Prototyping

Such service helped Emporium and Siembras work together to develop a prototype of the Siembras platform, including: 

• A searchable directory of certified technicians, 
• Structured training and certification workflows,
• A knowledge management system for installation, maintenance, repair, and remanufacture.

The prototype validated the platform’s technical feasibility and the benefits it would bring to Emporium before scaling.

• Service n°2: Scaling into corporate structures

The scaling service first involved an analysis of operational, technical, and regional barriers to implementing the platform within Emporium’s Latin American operations (e.g. staff workflows, local technician networks, and customer onboarding).

Later, the accelerator, along with the two partners, co-created a scalability report detailing how the platform can be rolled out efficiently across multiple countries while ensuring consistent training, support, and circular-economy practices.

For Emporium, a working platform to solidify presence in LATAM; for Siembras, a gateway to more corporate clients

Besides meeting some great startups from both Europe and Latin America, we also managed to speak to some great investors operating across the Atlantic. A special shoutout to our partners at IESE Business School for their warm welcome in Barcelona – it’s always a pleasure to work with such a great team!

If you’re a startup with a corporate partner, apply to our open call.

In Colombia, off-grid communities account for approximately 4% of the population but cover more than 50% of the national territory.

The isolated settlements, like rural villages, islands, or indigenous areas in remote regions like Chocó, La Guajira, and the Amazon, lack connection to the national electricity grid.

They therefore rely on self-generated power from diesel generators, kerosene, or renewable sources such as solar panels and microgrids to meet basic needs, such as lighting, cooling, and healthcare. This situation goes beyond Colombia and reflects the challenges in remote areas in other LATAM countries as well.

In the era of climate change, it’s not only about installing electricity in these areas, but clean electricity.

Currently, the deployment of clean electrification in remote areas requires multiple manual on-site surveys by teams travelling days by boat or on foot to map solar potential, terrain, and community needs using paper logs or basic GPS, making these field trips cost-intensive and time-consuming and risking not achieving the results as planned upfront.

Furthermore, inefficiencies in data collection result from handwritten notes and manual data transfer, as these are prone to errors.

How to scale clean electrification in remote areas? That’s the challenge connect2evolve, an internal startup by Siemens Energy, faces.

From manual surveys to AI-driven electrification

Wimesa Media Technology is a German startup that designs AI-powered content-creation solutions and is developing an AI-driven application supporting connnect2evolve of Siemens Energy to enable scaling in remote areas. 

The application will include the following features:

1. Offline AI data capture via a mobile application with sensors and voice: enabling the collection of terrain photos and other data as well as conducting community interviews without an internet connection, with the data auto-processed locally. 
2. Auto-transcription, translation, and AI analysis of field inputs: Converts multilingual interviews and notes into organised datasets.
3. Secure auto-sync and sharing in low-connectivity zones: Encrypts and uploads data when signal returns, enabling real-time team collaboration. 

In summary, this results in increasingly accurate data, which will be included in the connect2evolve platform to streamline the electrification process and accelerate approvals for electrification projects and clean energy installations.

EU-LAC’s services: Turning a proof of concept (PoC) into an industrial capability

• Service n°1: PoC Design & Prototyping

The PoC Design & Prototyping service provides a structured pilot plan that allows key business hypotheses to be validated through clear and aligned metrics and objectives.

Milestones include PoC design, PoC validation and a final report confirming success criteria for scaling and de-risking.

• Service n°2: Scaling of solution 

The scaling service analyses the feasibility of scaling the solution comprehensively, assessing the scale of deployment, technical and operational risks, and financial and geographical viability. This service translates PoC learnings into a clear, actionable scaling roadmap.

• Service n°3: International growth & Soft landing 

The International growth & soft landing service includes an analysis of market opportunities by identifying priority markets, entry barriers, key opportunities, and best practices to support future commercialisation and sustainable market entry. 

This results in clear gains in smart data collection and customer satisfaction.

Durante una hora, los ponentes que incluían a Klaus Pistilli, Viceministro de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación, MITIC, Kirsti Ala-Mutka, Primera secretaria & Líder del equipo, Delegación de la Unión Europea en Paraguay, Vanessa Cañete, Presidenta de CISOFT, Maika Gorostidi, Co-Directora de EU-LAC Digital Accelerator, Federico Kramer, Consultor de Innovación Abierta dentro de EU-LAC Digital Accelerator, Nicolás Galmarini, CEO, Nanogrow Biotech presentaron a una asistencia en su mayor parte compuesta de empresas de Paraguay:

• El marco de alianza digital en el cual EU-LAC Digital Accelerator opera
• La necesidad para las empresas paraguayas de fomentar colaboraciones transcontinentales
• Los resultados de EU-LAC Digital Accelerator
• La “Matching platform” de la aceleradora así como la quinta convocatoria (abierta hasta el 12 de junio de 2026)
• El caso de Nanogrow, startup uruguaya pasada por la aceleradora.

• ​The EU-LAC Digital Accelerator invites business partnerships to apply to its open call #5. Partnerships must involve a corporate entity facing a digital challenge and a startup or SME developing a solution to address it.

• ​For open call #5, the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator opens a new opportunity area: sustainable mobility. However, applications from all industries are welcome. 

• ​EU-LAC partnerships must include at least one corporate and one startup from two of the following regions: the European Union, Latin America, and the Caribbean.   

• ​Selected candidates will receive acceleration services valued at up to €30,000 (€40,000 if a Caribbean partner is involved), organised around three pillars: proof of concept, business case, and investment and scaling. ​

Corporates and startups look for each other, but don’t know how to make it work

​Following the MIT Sloane Management Review, it is estimated that 7 corporate-startup collaborations out of 10 fail to reach the expected results. A wide range of factors can explain this high failure rate: misaligned cultures and objectives, low flexibility of the corporate’s legacy systems, no product validation, etc.

​​Through a dedicated corporate-startup acceleration programme, the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator supports international partnerships among Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean to achieve their digital innovation goals. 

Startups allow corporates to explore innovative solutions to their unsolved needs and problems. They provide unique insights that have not been considered or tested. It ultimately has a real impact on the profit and loss statement, generating new revenue streams or saving costs.
​Miguel Rodríguez, Open Innovation Consultant, EU-LAC Digital Accelerator

To access the acceleration programme, corporate-startup partnerships must apply to the open calls organised by the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator. 

​​Corporates and startups invited to contribute to sustainable mobility (but not only) 

​ ​Open call #5 for corporate-startup partnerships is open from 6 February 2026 to 12 June 2026.  

​Applying partnerships should include: 

1. A corporate facing a product or process-related challenge.  
2. ​A startup or SME providing a digital solution to this challenge. 

​​For open call #5, the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator expands its focus to sustainable mobility.  ​ 

In other words, the accelerator will welcome any digital mobility service that reduces environmental impact while maintaining at least comparable levels of economic activity.

For instance: 

• ​City‑scale transport twins that allow planners to simulate new bus lines, lane changes or roadworks on a virtual copy of the network, seeing impacts on congestion, travel times and emissions before implementation.
• A fleet dashboard that uses GPS trackers and on‑board IoT units to show real‑time vehicle locations and speed.
• Predictive traffic control platform for cities that forecasts congestion 15–60 minutes ahead from sensor and GPS data, and then adjusts signal timing and suggests rerouting strategies across the network.

​However, open call #5 is not limited to sustainable mobility. Corporate-startup partnerships from any industry are welcome to apply. 

​​Once selected, partnerships will receive à la carte acceleration services 

​​Taking a close look at the common challenges corporates and startups face when they work together, the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator designed a 6-month acceleration programme. 

​​The programme focuses on three use cases:  

1. “Makers​”: A corporate and a startup jointly develop a new product tailored to the corporate’s needs.

1. “Plug-in”: ​A startup integrates its solution into a corporate’s process.

1. “Gateway”: ​One partner helps the other adapt a product and successfully enter its local market. 

​ ​To solve these different scenarios, the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator grouped a dozen of acceleration services around three pillars: 

• ​Proof of concept: Validate the tech feasibility of the solution and ensure it answers a real need. Corporates and startups ranked services belonging to this pillar 8.9/10 on average.

We first support partnerships in reducing uncertainty when developing their innovation by conducting a proof of concept service to determine the feasibility of the project. Such a service demonstrates the strength of novel concepts and the challenges to overcome.”
Txomin Rodríguez, Product & Business Development Consultant, EU-LAC Digital Accelerator

• ​Business case: Build a business model that generates revenue and establish a winning international global expansion strategy. Corporates and startups ranked services belonging to this pillar 8.4/10 on average.

[Partnerships] gain insights on the most promising markets to approach, key potential clients, distribution channels, and other key aspects to go abroad.
Rubén Carrandi, Senior Project Leader, EU-LAC Digital Accelerator

• ​Investment & Scaling: Produce and sell at scale, and position the partnership to attract investment to improve the newly built solution. Corporates and startups ranked services belonging to this pillar 8.5/10 on average.

Both corporates and startups can expect a polished pitch, improved presentation skills, and direct exposure to investors. This leads to increased investment opportunities and stronger relationships with investors.”
Xènia Colomer, EU Projects Manager, EU-LAC Digital Accelerator

In a matter of months, through a supervised collaboration process, corporate-startup partnerships can bring a solution closer to commercialisation, whereas without supervision, such a process can take years and offer a lower likelihood of success.

Up to €10,500 in grants for startups to support proof-of-concept development and execution 

​A proof of concept is an essential line on a startup’s resume for long-term collaboration with corporates.

It validates technical feasibility before investing further into a prototype and, at a later stage, an MVP.

The proof-of-concept service is the most popular offering for corporate-startup partnerships. For this reason, the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator unlocked grants of up to €10,500 per startup: 

• ​€7,000 for proof-of-concept development. 
• ​Up to €2,000 to travel to the corporate’s premises to run a proof of concept experiment. 
• ​Up to €1,500 to transport the necessary equipment to test the solution. 

​​Startups can check their eligibility and apply for the grant by contacting their assigned mentor at the beginning of the programme. 

​​The example of a Spanish electricity giant partnering with an AI Chilean startup 

​Ormazabal is a global leader in electrical distribution solutions. It continuously purchases raw materials, including copper, aluminium, and steel.

However, raw material prices can be highly volatile. While Ormazabal may have committed to a price with its customers, its production costs may have increased overnight.

Ormazabal thus partnered with Bork, a Chilean startup that came with an AI-powered tool to predict price volatility. 

Both companies were matched and accelerated by the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator.

To this day, Bork has successfully executed a proof of concept with Ormazabal. This served as a door to the European market: the startup signed on three additional clients in Spain.

​To help corporates and startups without a partner find an innovation partner, the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator has launched a matching platform. 

​​With over 40 corporate challenges and close to 1,900 startups willing to bring their digital expertise, the matching platform has grown into a robust marketplace where corporates and startups can connect and agree on a partnership before applying together to the open call. 

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​The internationalisation differentiator 

​​The EU-LAC Digital Accelerator stands out as an accelerator for international partnerships.  

​For startups, as was the case with Bork, a successful collaboration with a foreign corporate is the perfect springboard to enter a new market.

​​The International growth & Soft landing service delivered by the accelerator answers this need by tackling regulation and tax issues as well as cultural aspects in order to “land” smoothly in a new country: 

Applying partnerships must be located in distinct regions (either the European Union, Latin America, or the Caribbean). ​By way of illustration, a Caribbean startup would only be able to apply alongside a European or Latin American corporate entity. 

​The EU-LAC Digital Accelerator has already onboarded 45 corporate-startup partnerships 

​We applied because the EU-LAC programme provides the right framework to validate our technology in real regional contexts, while enabling us to advance our PoC in a structured, focused, and impact-driven way.

Morten Wolter, CEO, Wimesa 

More than 45 corporate-startup partnerships have either completed the acceleration programme or are currently participating in it. Interested corporates and startups can review the product and market impact delivered by the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator, with more than 20 case studies published on the accelerator’s website under the Success stories page. 

Partnerships can submit their application form in 10 minutes via the open call page, where they can also download the “Guidelines for Applicants,” which detail, in particular, eligibility requirements and evaluation criteria.

For more information, contact the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator team.

In Uruguay, Grupo Novelli, a leading automotive services provider, is stepping boldly into the future by partnering with Germany’s MotionsCloud, an AI-powered vehicle inspection startup selected by the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator. Together, they are building a new digital pathway for faster, more accurate, and scalable accident management.

Through the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator, these two companies have joined forces in a strategic partnership to deploy and validate an AI-powered vehicle inspection solution to assess damage after a traffic accident.

The challenge: inefficiency in a high-stakes process

For years, Grupo Novelli has relied on traditional workflows to handle accident cases. These workflows require:

• Manual review, 
• Physical inspections, 
• Extensive coordination, 
• Repetitive administrative tasks. 

As the company grew, these processes have become increasingly difficult to scale, causing various issues:

• Slow customer response times after traffic incidents.
• High administrative costs (due to communication across multiple stakeholders).
• Inaccurate damage assessments (especially when done manually).
• Limited scalability, especially during peak periods.
• Fragmented systems that slow every step of the workflow.

If left unaddressed, the risks are severe: rising operational costs, loss of key insurance clients, reputational damage, and an inability to stay competitive as the industry shifts toward digital automation.

The solution: AI-powered vehicle inspection by MotionsCloud

MotionsCloud brings powerful computer-vision technology to automate the first step of the claims process, which unfolds in three crucial points: 

1. Understanding the damage
2. …Where it occurred
3. …And how severe it is.

The startup’s solution offers:

• Automated damage detection using AI trained on large vehicle-damage datasets.
• Two inspection modes: a standard mobile/app-based flow and a 360-degree inspection platform.
• Digital reports are generated automatically after photo or video submission.
• Easy integration into existing claims systems.
• A fast, user-friendly customer experience that minimises friction for claimants.

For Grupo Novelli, this is an opportunity to redesign their entire claims journey: faster, cheaper, and more accurate.

The partnership: bridging local expertise with deep-tech innovation

The EU-LAC Digital Accelerator identified the perfect match: a corporate with an operational challenge and a tech provider with a proven solution.

The six-month acceleration programme is structured to “de-risk” this cross-border collaboration: 

Octantis is providing hands-on mentorship and a rigorous framework for designing and evaluating the Proof of Concept (PoC). 

Simultaneously, the European Business and Innovation Centre Network (EBN) is advising on international growth strategy and access to EU and multilateral funding, ensuring the partnership’s success translates into scalable commercial expansion.

The acceleration services delivered are as follows:

Acceleration roadmap & mentoring: A jointly defined work plan aligning technology, operational needs, and KPIs. This avoids cultural and procedural friction between a German startup and a Uruguayan corporate.

PoC evaluation: A structured, data-backed methodology to evaluate whether the solution reaches the target of at least 80% damage detection accuracy and delivers a strong customer experience.

International growth plan, soft-landing & funding access: A fully tailored strategy for scaling MotionsCloud in the region, plus identification of international funding opportunities to support expansion.

The expected impact: a data-driven blueprint for the future

The partnership has established precise KPIs to measure the PoC’s success, which will form the blueprint for a full-scale rollout:

The partnership exemplifies the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator’s mission: to foster tangible, high-impact collaborations that bridge European deep-tech with Latin American industrial expertise.

It connects German AI with Uruguayan automotive-insurance know-how, tackling a universal industry challenge with a localised, practical approach. By providing the structure, expertise, and validation framework, the accelerator ensures this partnership moves swiftly from pilot to potential, paving the way for a more efficient, digital, and customer-centric future for insurance claims across the region.

How to assess the emotional intelligence of university students consistently and objectively?

This is the challenge faced by the Colombia-based university Areandina.

Socioemotional skills (including empathy and teamwork) are in high demand in a highly competitive job market for young graduates. 

(In Colombia, youth unemployment – 14.6% – is more than 6 points higher than the national average 8.2%.)

Socioemotional skills come in handy in a variety of work contexts:

• Stress management helps any worker prioritise when faced with an unexpectedly tight deadline.
• Strong communication skills can prevent misunderstandings in collaborative projects, particularly in multicultural contexts.
• Conflict-resolution abilities help employees recognise negative emotional triggers (and thus avoid activating them). 

Question: How to objectively measure and develop students’ socio-emotional competencies?

Until now, the answer consisted of manual assessments complemented by interviews. But such practices show severe limitations:

• Subjectivity: Interviewers may seek information that confirms their initial impressions (confirmation bias), overlooking contradictory evidence.
• Scalability: Administering a questionnaire to 10 students is feasible, but the task is of another order for 300 students.

To sum up, socioemotional assessment is key for the University Areandina as it will give students a chance to develop their soft skills and enter more confidently the job market. Besides, it is also an opportunity for the university to strengthen its positioning in Latin America’s higher-education landscape.

Students’ essays and voice recordings become socioemotional evaluation input

Human AI, a Spanish startup, introduces a platform that assesses soft skills using Natural Language Processing (NLP).

NLP is a subfield of artificial intelligence that enables computers to understand and interpret human language.

In other words, Human AI’s tool can process students’ text or voice recording from essays, interviews, workshops, and immediately deliver an evaluation of the main behavioural traits, grouped in 5 pillars:

• Openness: Willingness to try new experiences, embrace change, and accept different ideas.
• Conscientiousness: Being organised and responsible involves high levels of self-discipline and goal orientation.
• Extraversion: Sociability, assertiveness, and energy.
• Agreeableness: Tendency to be cooperative, compassionate, and trusting.
• Neuroticism: How emotionally stable or unstable a person tends to be.

For an extensive international IT university infrastructure, the platform also offers multilingual features, GDPR compliance, and plug-and-play implementation. 

Consequently, Areandina is chronologically able to: 

Scale deployment across campuses and online programs, enabling consistent evaluation of large student populations. Be 3,000, 15,000 or ten times more.

1. Personalise development pathways to support well-being, coaching, and academic guidance.
   
2. Modernise its student services and position itself as a regional leader in AI-driven education.

The EU-LAC Digital Accelerator brings in PoC and funding access expertise

• Service n°1: PoC design & Prototyping

This service will consist in defining a straightforward methodology to validate Human AI’s NLP-based assessments at scale. The plan will integrate academic, employability, and well-being KPIs as well as strong governance and coordination across Spain and Colombia teams.

Such criteria will allow the pilot to demonstrate feasibility within a compressed timeline.

• Service n°2: Open innovation bootcamp

The Bootcamp equips Areandina’s leadership with innovation and corporate venturing capabilities, strengthening internal capacity to work effectively with startups. 

In practice, the Bootcamp will help in:

– Managing PoC scaling (turn a small pilot into something the organisation can roll out across the whole organisation)
– Internal “buy-in” (get the right people inside the corporate to support the collaboration)
– Cross-functional adoption (map all impacted teams, adapting the solution to their workflows, coordinating legal, IT, operations, and business units)

• Service n°3: Access to public funding

The EU-LAC Digital Accelerator will here provide personalised guidance to identify international funding opportunities to extend or scale the PoC:

– Identify European, Latin American, and Caribbean funding stakeholders suitable for expanding socioemotional-skill certification models
– Structure financial strategies for multi-campus deployment in 2026
– Prepare the partnership for regional expansion to other universities in Colombia and Latin America.

For Areandina, building readiness and resilience for the job market; For Human AI, validating a reference customer in Latin America

Centro Skinner is a mental health and emotional well-being centre in Peru.

Psychologists, psychiatrists, and therapists with various specialities support people with issues such as anxiety, stress, behavioural and relational difficulties through therapy, assessments, and group programmes. 

Nevertheless, to this day, Centro Skinner lacks an integrated, structured system for accurately recording patient therapies. 

In other words, patient records are scattered across files, emails, tools and WhatsApp messages. Staff waste time searching and reconciling information. 

Some studies show that therapists can dedicate up to 20% of their working hours to administrative tasks instead of direct patient care.

As a result: 

• Session history and billing are not always reliably linked. It can lead to missed invoices and delayed payments.
• Follow-ups depend more on people than processes. If an admin or therapist is absent, context is lost, and actions can stall.

Yet, the damage is not only administrative. Fragmented data also affects clinical quality:

• Therapists cannot easily see a clear, chronological view of patient history, goals, and outcomes. They rely on memory or partial notes. 
• As a consequence, when a patient changes therapists or adds a specialist, critical context is lost. This increases the risk of repeated work and slower patient progress

Loomee Health can cut down up to 40% admin time for therapists

Loomee Health is a Madrid-based startup that helps therapists tailor their interventions through a platform that centralises patient data. 

How does it work?

• The platform centralises all patient data in a single system, eliminating the need for scattered handwritten notes, files, and other tools.
• It automates administrative tasks, including triage (initial assessment of a new patient) and monitoring (tracking patient progress over time using metrics, session data, and feedback).
• It uses explainable AI (a form of artificial intelligence that makes its recommendations transparent to humans) to flag patient risks, patterns, and progress trends, and to show the reasoning behind them. This enables earlier intervention and safer care.
• The platform also offers access to more than 600 evidence-based resources to quickly build consistent, personalised intervention plans. Resources can include treatment protocols, patient exercises, and monitoring guides.

For professionals and therapists, this platform can save up to 40% of administrative time, freeing more time for direct patient care. Clinics gain a structured, centralised view of KPIs (patient adherence, dropout rates, and therapist workload), enabling more informed decision-making.

Patient adherence refers to how consistently a patient follows their prescribed therapy plan. It includes attending scheduled sessions on time, completing assigned exercises, and following the therapist’s recommendations.

Patients, on the other hand, increase their chances of prompt and long-term recovery by benefiting from more personalised interventions and by participating more actively in their therapeutic process. 

The threefold support from the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator: de-risking, funding, and protecting Innovation

Not only did the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator make Centro Skinner and Loomee Health meet and match, but it also brought in various acceleration services to support the scaling and adoption of Loomee’s platform:

• Service n°1: PoC Design & Prototyping

The PoC Design & Prototyping service will support Centro Skinner and Loomee Health in defining a clear pilot and selecting specific workflows, such as patient record management, admin automation, and therapy tracking. 

It will set measurable KPIs (e.g., reduced admin time, improved patient adherence) and monitor adoption and system performance in real time. 

The pilot validates whether Loomee delivers expected efficiency and clinical benefits, aligns roles and success criteria, and identifies issues early. This approach de-risks the collaboration and ensures a smooth, effective rollout if scaled.

• Service n°2: Investment readiness & Matchmaking

The Investment Readiness & Matchmaking service will more specifically help Loomee Health refine its pitch, clearly presenting its business model, clinical value, and growth strategy to investors. 

It builds team confidence through practice sessions and provides direct exposure to relevant VCs and business angels. Early investor feedback guides strategic adjustments.

• Service n°3:  IP Assessment

The IP advisory service will help Loomee Health and Centro Skinner identify and protect the intellectual property generated during the PoC. 

It clarifies ownership, protection mechanisms, and geographical coverage, reducing legal and operational risks. 

The service also formalises partner contributions and enables future opportunities such as licensing, technology transfer, and international expansion, ensuring the collaboration’s innovations are secure and fully valorised.

Clear benefits for Skinner’s therapists and patients will allow Loomee to secure more investments and partnerships

Living in a city or living in the country can mean a significant gap in access to the Internet.

End of 2023: only half of Peru’s rural population could access the Internet…vs. nearly 90% in metropolitan Lima.

Internet para Todos, a Peruvian rural mobile infrastructure operator, is working to close this gap. But it wants to do more. 

Connectivity is the first step; making EdTech a reality for schools in rural areas is the second one. 

Why? Studies show that EdTech tools enable each student to learn at their own pace and level. 

However, EdTech is far from being systemised in Peruvian schools:

• Before the Pandemic, only 6 out of 10 school‑age students had internet access, one of the lowest rates in Latin America.
• A national teacher survey found that nearly 7 out of 10 teachers reported difficulties systematising virtual educational experiences.

Not addressing the EdTech challenge will reinforce inequalities: rural children leave school (approximately 30% of all students) with far weaker skills than urban ones and remain locked out of the modern economy.

High-impact EdTech does not need high-speed internet

Now cross the Atlantic to meet Smile and Learn, a Spanish startup offering a multilingual EdTech platform with thousands of interactive activities for children ages 3-12.

There are over 15,000 gamified activities and features, such as:

• Maths (sums, fractions, decimals), language arts (readings, vocabulary), science, and digital literacy (coding, etc.)
• Languages with bilingual English/Spanish content
• Emotional education (emotions, conflict resolution), multiple intelligences (logical, visual-spatial, naturalistic).
• Inclusivity: Pictograms, adjustable difficulty, and quiet mode in case of autism or ADHD.

An example of activity proposed by the Smile and Learn platform

By leveraging Smile and Learn’s platform, Internet para Todos can enable low-bandwidth access to EdTech for 2.5+ million rural students.​

• Offline mode: Students in 2G/3G areas can download activities without an active internet connection.
• 4G rollout synergy: As Internet para Todos upgrades rural sites to 4G, schools gain real-time interactive learning, boosting engagement in dispersed rural communities.​
• Inclusivity fit: Platform’s adjustable difficulty and Special Educational Needs (SEN) tools (e.g., pictograms for autism) address Peru’s rural teacher shortages and diverse needs.​

From concept to validated rural deployment

The EU-LAC Digital Accelerator will specifically support the Internet para Todos x Smile and Learn partnership with one key acceleration service: PoC design & Prototyping.

Through this service, the partnership will be able to build a structured pilot framework to test rural EdTech deployment:

• Define KPIs such as student engagement rates (e.g. 30% increase in activity completion).
• Test hypotheses like validating low-bandwidth access.
• De-risk rollout: Monitor milestones (e.g. pilot in X schools) and align responsibilities (e.g. Internet para Todos: Connectivity; Smile and Learn: EdTech content).

Offline access, teacher adoption, cost per student:  Tested