EUROPEAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARDS

The STARTENT project invites Students, Young people and New Entrepreneurs from the European Union to participate in the STARTENT European Entrepreneurship Awards.

The Awards are divided in the following categories:

 [1] Students/New entrepreneurs: no age limit. Young people/Future entrepreneurs: 18-30 years old at the date of the application

 The two competitions for students/future entrepreneurs are organized in two operational phases:

 1^st phase: Submission of the Business Idea Summary following the electronic template. Deadline: 18 July 2010

2^nd phase: Submissions passing the criteria of the first evaluation will participate in the 2^nd phase and submit a full Business Plan. Deadline: 22 November 2010

The Competition for New Entrepreneurs will be organized in one phase. Deadline: 22 November 2010

Award Announcement: January 2011

Winners and Participants will be invited to the Young Entrepreneurs’ Night: February 2011

Further information

WORKSHOP: Cultivating entrepreneurial culture in Europe

We are pleased to announce the workshop “Cultivating entrepreneurial culture in Europe” organized in Brussels by the STARTENT project on 28 May,  as part of the SME week.

The event is conceived as a workshop to exchange experience on entrepreneurship and its education, starting from the project’s results, and to generate a debate involving relevant stakeholders from the academia and the business as well as students and would-be entrepreneurs.

In particular the workshop will focus on how formal and informal training can be effective in, on one side, fostering the entrepreneurial spirit among young people and on the other, providing to aspirant entrepreneurs the technical/economical skills needed to succeed.

The participation is open to all stakeholders, but to ensure the effectiveness of the workshop the number of participants will be limited to 40 people. To register fill out and submit the form you can fnid below.

You can download the Agenda of the workshop.

STARTENT 28th May Worskshop Registration Form

You can now download the PRESENTATIONS of the workshop

You can now download the PICTURES of the workshop

STARTENT kick-off meeting

The STARTENT consortium is composed of a perfect combination of representatives from academia and the business sectors from 7 different countries.

The STARTENT kick-off meeting has taken place last January in Tenerife at the premises of the coordinator, the Technological Institute of Canary Islands.

The partners of the project had in this way the opportunity to meet, introduce their organizations and exchange their experience on entrepreneurship education.

It has been evident since the very beginning of the meeting how perspectives and experience are different between organization involved in formal education and those which work more on the business side. This has confirmed the need of a project like STARTENT which aims at exploiting these complementarities.

The consortium agreed on the next steps to undertake and planned the future meetings.

As one of the result of the meeting, a group has been created in Linkedin ("Entrepreneurship and its education") as a virtual hub for all those interested in the theme and several discussion are already taking place.