Team:Thrace/Entrepreneurship
Since the moment that we came up with our project, we couldn’t help but think about the bigger picture. We wondered for example how our project could be implemented in the real world and what impact it would have. We spent plenty of time considering these topics and redesigning our project in order to make its characteristics as satisfying and meaningful to us and to the world as possible. In the meantime, we participated with our project in various entrepreneurship competitions.
With our project Salica we participated in the Mindspace University competition where we won 2nd place! After 3 months of intensive training and 3 knock-out phases, among 300+ people who applied, 31 teams that were formed in the first phase and 10 teams that passed to the final, our research team won the 2nd place, announced by the US Ambassador of Greece, Geoffrey R. Payatt.
What’s more, we also won 1 totally funded place for Mindspace trip to the US, Boston and Silicon Valley startup ecosystems and a 20% discount for 1 more member of our team in order to pitch our projects to some of the most renowned ventures and angel investors.
Due to our distinction in the Mindspace University competition, we had the honor to get hosted by the incubation & acceleration center of the Athens University of Economics and Business, the greatest university of economics and business in Greece. There, we were provided with close mentoring from the specialized staff of coaches. Experts, scientists and mentors with great market and technical expertise were there to accelerate the product development and connect us with opportunities in the global market. We learned from Intellectual Property matters to marketing issues and established a solid network that will pave the way to make our project a reality.
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We also won the 2nd award in the research stream of their national competition Ennovation a solid network that will pave the way to make our project a reality. novation and one of the Judges also gave us a direct pass to the finals of National Bank of Greece Business Seeds competition.
It was also a pleasure to also get accepted in JA Greece competition Junior Achievement’s mission is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed. As one of the world's largest youth-serving NGOs, JA Worldwide activates youth for the future of jobs.
Through the delivery of cutting-edge, experiential learning in financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship, they create pathways for employability and job creation. Each year, their network of over 470,000 volunteers serves more than 10 million students in over 100 countries.
Through our participation in these competitions we gained plenty of knowledge about entrepreneurship, but also created memories, built connections and acquired vital experience.
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