Inno-EUt+ International Student DemoDay - Cartagena
Innovative business ideas that have arisen in the South, West, North and East of the European Union have been presented this afternoon, 1st of February 2022, at the ‘Startup meeting and demoday’ event.
Entrepreneurial students from the polytechnics of Cartagena, Cluj-Napoca, Cyprus, Dublin, Riga and Sofia, as well as a startup mentored in the LAB-7 project, have exposed the business projects they have developed during this academic year thanks to the Inno-EUT+ project , funded by the European Institute of Technology.
The meeting of entrepreneurs, which is held together with the other meetings in Cartagena of the European University of Technology (EUt+), has begun with a talk by the companies ODILO and Biyectiva, which participate in the Network of Chairs of the UPCT and will explain their trajectory as already consolidated startups.
The objective of the Inno-EUT+ project is to promote entrepreneurship and promote the entrepreneurial, intrapreneurial and innovation skills of students, teachers and staff of the European University of Technology. The European Institute of Technology (EIT Climate-Kic) has the largest innovation network in Europe and brings together more than 1,000 partners. Inno-EUt+ is the first project that the UPCT has obtained from this European organization.
Bio Wrap – the winners of this edition
The first ClimateLaunchpad competition winners were Bio Wrap. The team comprises four students from TU204 (ME in Mechanical Engineering) and TU219 (MSc in Sustainable Infrastructure): Samuel Berry, Aisling Noonan, Callum Robinson and David Walsh. In the Climate Launchpad process, they were tutored by Mark Ennis (School of Creative Arts), Jennifer McDonnell (School of Marketing) and Dr Colm O’Kane and Dr Kevin Delaney (both School of Mechanical and Design Engineering) in an interdisciplinary project funded by a GROWTHhub bursary.
Reflecting on the competition in the awards ceremony, Dr. Deirdre McQuillan said: “there was a lot of work involved in pulling this together within a short timeframe and the response from staff and students was amazing. First, we had to train staff and then recruit students. In the end, we had 12 pitches entered into the competition that represented some excellent, well-developed climate-related ideas brought by student groups working together. All those pitches are potential future startups focused on tackling climate change. ClimateLaunchpad fits very well into different courses and initiatives in TU Dublin right now, such as in the Growth Hub. Together they give students real pathways from ideation to starting a green business. I look forward to us embracing and building on the supports and links into Climate-KIC and the international ClimateLaunchpad competition in 2022.”