Entrepreneur's Night Summary
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).
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