Applications to the E.Awards@Técnico – Deadline: June 18th 2023.

9 junho 2023, 02:03 • Miguel Amaral

Applications to the E.Awards@Técnico – Deadline: June 18th 2023.

All IST students enrolled in an Entrepreneurship course unit in the academic year 2022-2023 are eligible to apply.

• Only applications made through the respective Form will be considered. FORM HERE 

• All candidates must attach to the Entry Form a POSTER* of their project

Deadlines

• Submission of applications: June 18th 2023 

• Info session: release soon

• Communication of the projects selected for the final pitch: until June 23rd 2023;

• Exhibition of posters to be voted on by the IST community: June 26th to July 5th 2023;

• Final Pitch: July 5th 2023

Evaluation Criteria

In the first phase of tabulation, the jury’s assessment will be based on the following criteria:

• Development status of the project;

• Competence and suitability of the team;

• Technology/ Degree of innovation and feasibility of the project;

• Validation and potential of the business model or social and environmental impact.

In the Final Pitch the jury will evaluate each project based on the 3-minute pitch and how the team answered the questions, with the following criteria:

• Business model: validation by customers, revenue model, partnerships, customer acquisition, market and the like;

• Potential for Social and Environmental Impact;

• Technology: feasibility, complexity, quality of prototype, and the like;

• Presentation: quality and effectiveness of the speaker and slides, graphic quality of the prototype and website, among other acceptable supports.

Awards

In this edition, the best entrepreneurship projects selected by the jury are awarded with the following values:

• Best E.Project by Santander – €3.500;

• Honorable Mention by by Accenture – €1000;

• Honorable Mention by Armilar Ventures –  €1000;

• Best Poster by Accenture – 2 awards of €500 each;

• Consultancy Hours for the 3 Winning Projects by Armilar Ventures.

*All the info can be found in the webpage, here

**Examples of Posters from last year's session here