European Student Startups is Europe's first Venture Capital Competition exclusively for students. Hosted by the London School of Economics Students' Union Entrepreneurs in partnership with many of the continent's top entrepreneurial student societies, the competition culminates in the Grand Final where the best entrepreneurs will pitch to an audience of experienced investors, looking to put their money into Europe's best new enterprises.

ESS brings together aspiring entrepreneurs with investors where business ideas are turned into reality. As a Europe-wide competition, European Student Startups will host ambitious and driven entrepreneurs from a variety of backgrounds who will have the chance to find the funding they need in order to start up their companies. It will also give investors the unique opportunity to invest in an exciting mass of new businesses in just one morning, at one location. Entrants will pitch to the investors through a three-stage process, with the finalists earning the opportunity to secure the investment they need to realise their business ideas.

European Student Startups encourages imagination, initiative, and innovation. The best of the best will compete to secure investment.

More info: http://www.europeanstudentstartups.com/index.php 

The Banesto Foundation in collaboration with 40 local partners offers new opportunities to young people with ideas encouraging entrepreneurship. Together they launch theYUZZ contest in 20 cities throughout Spain with the aim to stimulate business projects ideas from young people between 18 and 30.

Selected candidates will benefit from the necessary support, the space and the appropriate material to help them develop their technology-based business idea. The prize consists in a training of 7 months after which the best projects selected will have the opportunity to travel to Silicon Valley. The Banesto Foundation will provide them with a certificate for their achievements. In addition, a prize amounting to 60.000 euros in total will be shared between the three best projects at national level.

1st Prize: 30.000 € - 2nd Prize: 20.000 € - 3rd Prize: 10.000 €

Selection of participants
The jury will select a maximum of 30 candidates who will be evaluated according to the following cirteria:

The candidate:

    Communication skills & presentation of the idea
    Excecution capability
    Path

The idea:

    High technological & innovative elements
    Creativity
    Growth potential
    Market opprtunity

Preselected candidates will go through a personal interview enabling the jury to select the 20 final candidates .

http://www.yuzz.es/

After the success of the first edition,  the "Second Entrepreneurs’ Night" is organised in the framework of the Entrepreneurs and SME week. A different event, dynamic, full of surprises. It aims to promote entrepreneurship in the Canaries.

• 27th October 2011 in Tenerife
• 28th October 2011 in Gran Canaria

Young Entrepreneur’s night

Torino Entrepreneur's night    Cyprus Entrepreneur’s Night   Ruse Entrepreneur’s Night  Funchal Entrepreneur’s Night  Tenerife Entrepreneur's Night   Gran Canaria Entrepreneur's Night   Brussels Entrepreneur's Night  Nottingham Entrepreneur’s night

The Young Entrepreneur’s night was planned as a different and original event, where students, teachers and entrepreneurship stakeholders could join in a fresh environment in order to enhance the image of this kind of programs. This different way of doing an event has been the key success factor of this milestone. The objectives defined at the beginning of the program were:

• Promoting the image of entrepreneurship in society and above all among young people;
• Disseminating the results of the STARTENT project; and
• Engage other representatives of the target groups and generate a wider debate on entrepreneurship education.

The Young Entrepreneur's Night has been celebrated in every partner region (8 events in total) between the month of February and March 2011.
In general, very different profiles of people joined the event, from really young people to experienced teachers and entrepreneurs. All participants of the project: applicants to the awards, protagonists and authors of the STARTENT publications, colleagues from other entrepreneurship-related institutions.

The event was a great opportunity to award the winners of the European Entrepreneurship competition. Find below the places where the different winners were awarded:
Torino: High Tech category second awarded (Biotechware), Transnational category, first awarded (eReader) and New entrepreneur, second awarded (Tre Tau Engineering) .
Brussels: Transnational category, second awarded (NOA)
Gran Canaria: New entrepreneur, first awarded (Onyx Solar)
Nottingham: High Tech category, first awarded (Mediwise).

More information

Announcement of Entrepreneur’s night