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The ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Contest is an initiative of ¹û¶³´«Ã½ innovation Space that offers engineering ¹û¶³´«Ã½ students an annual competition and platform to transform their innovative ideas - related to grand societal challenges - into viable business concepts. Within their team, they follow an extra-curricular program to develop their entrepreneurial competences to become engineers of the future.

The ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Contest takes place over a period of five months, in which the students work on their concepts in co-creation with a diverse network of experts across educational, business and societal fields (corporates, SME’s, NGO’s, governments, civil society, etc.). They follow an extra-curricular program to develop entrepreneurial competences during workshops, brainstorm sessions and networking events with like-minded students, coaches and experts. ​

¹û¶³´«Ã½ innovation Space

¹û¶³´«Ã½ innovation Space is the center of expertise for Entrepreneurial and Challenge-Based Learning (CBL). It is a learning hub for co-creation of responsible solutions to real world-challenges by students together with researchers, industry, and societal organizations, thereby building and connecting open interdisciplinary thematic communities​. Read more about ¹û¶³´«Ã½ innovation Space

The Gate

The Gate is the entry-point where students from the Brainport region are assisted in getting their innovation ready for the market. They offer services to tech startups in the first stage of their existence, including: startup coaching, intellectual property advice, startup readiness programs, workshops and access to the most used funding opportunities within the Brainport region and beyond.