Montpellier Innovation Booster: 3 days to accelerate your idea
The first edition of the Montpellier Innovation Booster (BIM) took place from October 21 to 23, 2025-2026, on the Saint-Priest campus in Montpellier. The event brought together eight candidate projects, led by 11 researchers and entrepreneurs, supported by 15 expert coaches from the University of Montpellier's Innovation Hub (PUI) (competitiveness clusters, SATT AxLR, partnership and promotion services, and incubators). Fourteen students from the MOMA – Montpellier Management Master's 2 program in entrepreneurial support were also mobilized to coach the project leaders.
The workshops offered enabled project leaders to work on aspects as diverse as project structuring, strategic action plan development, identification of financing needs, reflection on ways to add value, and even pitch writing and training, or vision and posture. The session concluded with a competition before a jury composed of representatives from DIPA,Initium, Pôle Mer Méditerranée, and SATT AxLR.
The eight projects supported demonstrate the richness and diversity of innovation in Montpellier, with a particular focus on health this year. NeuroModEx is working on a genetic and pharmacological approach to neurodegenerative diseases; i-Senex is developing senescence inhibitors to combat cellular aging; Optimal Target is a digital tool for optimizing antibiotic treatments in intensive care; DISHI is an antiviral therapy targeting the hepatitis B virus; the DOIAINM project aims to offer personalized nutritional advice via AI for patients with obesity or diabetes; and finally, Glioprofile – AI concerns the segmentation and MRI monitoring of low-grade gliomas, benign brain tumors that mainly affect children and adolescents. The latter two projects are part of an approach to protect biodiversity with ACAB, which records the cardiac activity of whales to study the impact of maritime traffic, and from an agronomic perspective with Frapam, which is developing precision aquaculture based on computer vision for sustainable farming.
At the end of these sessions, participants will submit their applications to the investment and innovation committee of the University Innovation Hub, which will select the winning projects and offer funding to support their development. The next Montpellier Innovation Booster session will take place from January 20 to 22, 2026. Registration is now open.
