Ennovation is a yearly University Competition on Entrepreneurship and Innovation with 4 months duration. The competition runs by a network of 20+ universities in Greece and Cyprus under the coordination of Athens Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ACEin) of the Athens University of Economics & Business.
The main objective of Ennovation is to accelerate innovative “University Born” ideas by providing the participants with the knowledge, skill set, tools and the confidence required in order to turn them into action. Ennovation puts significant effort in supporting students pursuing either undergraduate studies and executive master’s or doctoral degrees and researchers who wish to turn their innovative entrepreneurial ideas or scientific research results into a sustainable business.
The entrepreneurial teams that enter the ennovation competition are divided by the organization committee in three distinct streams in accordance to their maturity:
- The Youth Entrepreneurship Stream
- The Entrepreneurship, Stream, which for the 2o24 round has a special focus on AI – related ideas and,
- The Research Stream.
ennovation 2024 Timeline
Event Type | Event | Date & Time |
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Applications | Applications Open | 15.01.2024 |
Applications | Applications Deadline | 17.03.2024 |
Applications | Screening and Results Announcement | 18.03.2024 |
Beginning of Phase B | 19.03.2024 | |
Guidance | Coaching | 21.03.2024 - 07.06.2024 |
Seminar/Workshop | Welcome,Teamwork & Team Manifesto, Inspirational Speech | 21.03.2024 | 17:00 - 19:00 | Online |
Seminar/Workshop | Market Research & Buiness Validation Workshop | 28.03.2024 | 17:00 - 19:00 | Online |
Seminar/Workshop | Pivoting Workshop | 04.04.2024 | 17:00 - 19:00 | Online |
Seminar/Workshop | Physical & Digital Prototype Mock Up Workshop | 11.04.2024 | 17:00 - 19:00 | Online |
Seminar/Workshop | Patents & IPRs | 18.04.2024 | 17:00 - 19:00 | Online |
Seminar/Workshop | Branding | 25.04.2024 | 17:00 - 19:00 | Online |
Seminar/Workshop | Financials | 16.05.2024 | 17:00 - 19:00 | Online |
Rehearshal | Pitching Workshop | 23.05.2024 | 17:00 - 19:00 | Online |
Pitching Event | Phase 2 Pitching Presentations Rehearsal | 30.05.2024 | 17:00 - 19:00 | Online |
Pitching Event | Phase 2 Pitching Presentations and Screening for next Phase | 31.05.2024 | 17:00 - 20:00 | Online |
Beginning of Phase C | 01.06.2024 | |
Guidance | Coaching & Mentoring | 01.06.2024 - 17.07.2024 |
Rehearshal | Final Pitching Rehearshal | 18.07.2024 | 18:00 - 21:00 | On Site - ACEin AUEB |
Pitching Event | Final Pitching & Awards Ceremony | 19.07.2024 | 12:00 - 16:00 | On Site - ACEin AUEB |
At a Glance
The Phases
Phase 1: Idea Submission
Phase 2: Three months of Intensive Acceleration Program
Phase 3: Final Pitching & Award Ceremony
Our ennovation 2024 Supporters
In Kind
Startup World Cup is a global series of conferences and competitions with the goal of connecting startup ecosystems worldwide and encouraging the most talented entrepreneurs to battle for the prestige of winning the Startup World Cup and a US$1 million prize in investment.
The competition comprises three phases: the regional finals (more than 50 regional competitions are scheduled all over the world); a semi-final in San Francisco and the Grand Finale in San Francisco.
ennovation 2023 Teams
Entrepreneurship Stream
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eThesis
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eThesis
All theses topics in eThesis will be tagged with keywords and students can find relevant theses to their interests, thus making the experience even faster and helpful. When a thesis topic is assigned to a student, both student and professor have a shared space which we call MyThesis.
In that page, they can upload tasks, notes, files and chat privately, greatly improving the efficiency of any thesis implementation. Finally, when a thesis is completed, the professor can grade it and then they can publish their work in ORCID and other theses publishing platforms. All processes are designed to work with both public and private universities and all their respective programs (Bachelors, Masters, PhDs).
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is.predicted
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is.predicted
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Ivoluntry
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Ivoluntry
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Meet n Kick
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Meet n Kick
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Stellarpaq
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Stellarpaq
- Poor Employee Training,
- Training that does not reflect the real job of each employee,
- Poor Employee evaluation, and
- Unclear responsibilities
Stellarpaq software helps them to improve their food service quality to their customers. It only requires them to enter their menu, some preferences and automatically generates using No-Code and AI personalised:
- Staff Training System with learning paths for each of the company roles, to get them ready for the job.
- Staff Evaluation System to certify who is ready for the job
- Quality Tasks App, to run daily tasks to fulfil their quality goals and
- Quality Management System to get certified (ISO 22000, BRC etc)
And that way they fix their food service, improve their reputation and start to excel.
Young Entrepreneurship Stream
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BINTER
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BINTER
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GrabEat
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GrabEat
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KORI
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KORI
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To IX mou
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To IX mou
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Uplodio
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Uplodio
Research Stream
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FunguWear
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FunguWear
Our team wants to be part of a greener and more sustainable future, in which no animal is put to death for it’s skin, where no resources are being wasted and where no toxic chemicals are polluting our waterways and the environment in total. Mycelium will be the turning point in terms of new materials for the 21 st century, since it only takes a few weeks to grow, it has tunable mechanical abilities, and mycelium based leather needs 99.9% less water when compared to animal leather.
Because in FunguWear, leather that grows in a lab is not fiction, we have done it already.
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Nom-Nom
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Nom-Nom
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Pocket Fruit
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Pocket Fruit
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Telomere and Genome Integrity Diagnostics
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Telomere and Genome Integrity Diagnostics
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Track4Value
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Track4Value
Many Established Organizations Support the Competition Every Year
Collaborating Universities
Entrepreneurship Stories
The initiative “Entrepreneurship Stories” was addressed to undergraduate and postgraduate students that participated in entrepreneurship lessons or wished to develop their own entrepreneurial idea. The initiative also addressed researchers and research teams that wished to commercialize their research results.
“Entrepreneurship Stories” was organized by ACEin of AUEB, in the context of the ennovation 2020 competition .
Contact us at: ennovation@acein.aueb.gr