Student
Innovators

2022


April 13th 2022

 

 

 

 

Student Innovators (SINN) is the University of Cyprus student competition featuring early stage business ideas! 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 Student Innovators Competition assembles a public forum where students of various courses in innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity present the results of selected team projects. The competition is a part of broader effort of the University of Cyprus to train a steady stream of graduates with activities that increase their employability and enterprise ability.

  • Open Call for Applications: March 21st

  • Deadline for Applications April 4th

  • Announcement of Final Ten results: April 8th

  • Competition: April 13th
    Where:
    Audotorium B108, Anastasios Leventis Council & Senate Building, UCY

APPLY NOW

NEWS

SINN Awards

The ‘Rectors’ Honorary Award

A team will be selected to represent the University of Cyprus at the Stage Two Competition in Berlin in October 2022. Stage Two is the first pan-European competition for the best startups spinning out of leading European universities. The selected team (or members of the selected team subject to the availability of funds) will subsequently attend and compete at Stage Two and will be evaluated on innovativeness, scalability, and the impact for the world of tomorrow and the viability of their idea as an investment opportunity.

3 EIA scholarships to the EUROPEAN INNOVATION ACADEMY JULY 17 - AUGUST 5, 2022 | Porto, Portugal. 3 - weeks study abroad program about entrepreneurship and innovation. Develop an entrepreneurial mindset, build your business skillset and stand out in a competitive World.

The “IDEA Innovation Centre Award”
500 Euro Tech Gift Voucher

* More prizes and the distribution to the winning teams will be announced at a later date.

Competition

*Geometric Coupling by Demetris Konstantinou Stainless Steel
2004 (UCY Collection)

Goal

*Isthmos, Nayia Evangelou (UCY Collection)

EVALUATION CRITERIA

  • Feasibility of the idea

  • Convincing and cost-effective validation plan

  • Team Composition

  • Communication Skills / Presentation

  • Understanding of the Market

  • Degree of innovation and competitive advantage

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

angela

Angela Panayiotou
Manager IDEA Cy

michael

Michael Tyrimos
Founder / Managing Director @ Capacitor Partners


panos

Maria Terzi
Co-Founder & CEO at Malloc

konstantina

Konstantina Ioannou
Senior Associate
at PwC Cyprus

andreas

Andreas Karavias
Partner
at Numisma Group

ENTRY GUIDELINES & CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION

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

ORGANIZERS

SUPPORTERS

CONTRIBUTORS