The Student Innovators Competition - SINN2021

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Student Innovators (SINN) is the University of Cyprus student competition featuring early stage business ideas with innovation potential and/or creative twist!

Student teams are invited to present creative ideas and solutions for challenging problems with impact to the economy and/or society in a 5-minute “pitch” to a panel of judges and the audience.

The competition is a part of a broader effort of the University of Cyprus to empower student entrepreneurs to become influential change makers with the appropriate skills and mindset.

  • Open Call for Applications: March 11th

  • Deadline for Applications March 29th

  • Announcement of Final Ten results: April 9th

  • Competition: April 14th - ONLINE

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NEWS

SINN Awards

The Rectors’ Honorary Awards
Each of the 3 winning teams will receive:
Proto.io:
1-year license for an Agency plan (up to 5 users). Proto.io allows users to create fully-interactive prototypes of any fidelity thatlook and work exactly like a real app, all without coding skills required.
Overflow: 1-year Pro license for 5 users. Overflow allows users to present ideas more effectively by building and sharing beautiful, interactive user flow diagrams and presentations. Peers and other stakeholders can provide their feedback through comments.

  • 1st Prize
    3 EIA scholarships
    European Innovation Academy – The Global EIA 2021 online
    1 Business Plan Workshop from the Idea Innovation Center
    A 2-month paid summer internship in Proto.io Cyprus for 1 softwaredeveloper (Conditions apply)
    1 tablet from the Hellenic Bank

  • 2nd Prize
    The PwC Award
    (1 EIA scholarship)
    Capacitor Partners Intensive Coaching Package:
    Product Strategy & Product Launch, Setup and polishing of your investor deck to raise funding

  • 3rd Prize
    1 Business Plan Workshop
    from the Idea Innovation Center
    1-year free hosting (VM) with 2 CPU/8GB RAM/100GB from the IT Infrastructure Service of the University of Cyprus
Goal

*Isthmos, Nayia Evangelou (UCY Collection)

EVALUATION CRITERIA

  • Problem Statement and Proposed solution

  • Feasibility of the idea

  • Degree of innovation and competitive advantage

  • Team Composition

  • Communication Skills / Presentation

  • Understanding of the Market

EVALUATION COMMITTEE

The Committee that will evaluate all the applications received and announce the final 10.

Members of the Entrepreneurship Council of the University of Cyprus.
https://www.c4e.org.cy/about-us/council

committee

PANEL OF JUDGES

logotheti

Konstantina Ioannou
Senior Associate at PwC Cyprus

angela

Angela Panayiotou
Manager IDEA Cy

andreas

Andreas Papadopoulos
Strategic Development Director
of the Hellenic Bank

panos

Panos Pachatouridis
Chief Technology Officer at Hellenic Hypermarkets Sklavenitis S.A.

committee

Michael Tyrimos
Founder / Managing Director
@ Capacitor Partners


ENTRY GUIDELINES & CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION

*Please note that it does not mean that mature ideas or projects have any advantage over an initial idea.

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