Created by Euroscience, ESOF – Euroscience Open Forum – is the biennial pan-European meeting dedicated to scientific research and innovation. At ESOF meetings leading scientists, researchers, young researchers, business people, entrepreneurs and innovators, policy makers, science and technology communicators and the general public from all over the world discuss new discoveries and debate the direction that research is taking in the sciences, humanities and social sciences.

ESOF is unique in that it is both international and multidisciplinary. ESOF takes place every two years, in a major European city (Stockholm, Munich, Barcelona, Torino, Dublin...) and presents breakthroughs in disciplines as varied as mathematics, music, geography, genetics etc. through a range of different formats including lectures, workshops etc.

The Kauffman Foundation, partner of the event, invited H-Farm to the panel "Showcase: European Accelerators Models", along with Symbion Accelerator and LMU Entrepreneurship Center", exploring what is working and how various players are approaching the acceleration of start-ups.

The panel was formed by Lars Jorgensen (CEO, Symbion Accelerator), Andy Goldstein (Executive Director, LMU), Giuseppe Folonari (Associate, H-Farm, on behalf of Maurizio Rossi, Co-Founder) and Stephan Gutzeit (Executive Director, Stiftung Charité, moderator).