European Entrepreneurship Award Olten 2022

YouthStart is a network of thought leaders that inspires young people through Enterpeneurship.

At the core of our activities, students from all network countries participate in an annual entrepreneurship competition. They qualify by winning entrepreneurial competitions on a national level.

Every year the European Network for Entrepreneurship grants the «Youth Start European Entrepreneurship Award».

The « Youth Start European Entrepreneurship Award » is awarded in three categories:

• Idea Challenge
  
• Real Market Challenge
  
• We Grow Together Challenge
  

The real market category includes the more matured ideas, that have been worked out in a more sophistic way.

The We grow Together category includes ideas that create positive change and contribute to one (or several) Sustainable Development Goals in various ways. The category is open to all countries.

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In order to participate, your national team leader or coordinator will have to download the following form, fill it out with all the necessary data and then send it to the host team.

Please note that the deadline for registration is March 31, 2022. If you need a bit more time, please contact us.

• The competition takes place in 3 categories – “Idea Challenge”, “Real Market Challenge” and "We grow Together Challenge". The real market category includes the more matured ideas, that have been worked out in a more sophistic way and have been presented already in some other entrepreneurship fields (e. g. competitions, sort of a fair of student businesses, published article, etc.).
  
• You will have approximately 10 minutes time for your pitch/presentation, followed by a 5 minutes Q&A session with the jury.
  
• The order of pitches/presentations will be set by the host organization.
  
• The pitch/presentation has to be in English.
  
• If you have a video to show, please present it at your booth and not during the presentation.
  
• Your pitch/presentation should be as creative and convincing as possible. You can use any medium you prefer.
  
• The room for the competition will be equipped with a projector.
  
• Although there might be a computer in the room for the competition, please bring your own laptop.
  
• If you use PowerPoint/Prezi/etc. please make sure to bring your presentation also as a PDF document on an USB-Drive.
  

The contact person for questions is Roman Schöll (roman.schoell@dbk.so.ch).