TOMSK, Nov 1 – RIA Tomsk. Business incubator of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) will hold a competition on the best project in sphere of youth business in November; prize fund is 300 thousand rubles, applications for participation are accepted till November 7, the project manager Tatyana Bondarenko reported to RIA Tomsk.
Business incubator "Ground of Engineering Entrepreneurship" of TPU has for the first time held a competition in the sphere of youth business in 2011. Its purpose is stimulation of students, undergraduates, graduate students and young scientists to entrepreneurship and innovative activity.
"All contestants receive a skilled consultant as a curator after application, participate in master classes in marketing, sales, oratory. The task isn't simple to release participants with their projects to the competition in front of jury, but to make everything that in our forces that they would win. Therefore, we carry out careful completion of an idea with each project", – Bondarenko told.
She noted that annually 30 projects compete for the prize annually, eight of them receive financing. The general prize fund of the competition in 2018 is 300 thousand rubles. As it is specified on the website of the Ground of Engineering Entrepreneurship, participants will compete in the following nominations: "Business projects", "Innovative projects in the IT sphere", "Hardware-projects"."Requirements to projects: prototype and understanding of the final product. The requirement for all nominations: an author of a project has to be younger than 30 years. Students, undergraduates, graduate students and young scientists can participate in the competition. Due to the November holidays application is prolonged till November 7", – Bondarenko reported.
She added that the final of the competition will take place on November 14. It is possible to submit applications for participation on the website of the Ground of Engineering Entrepreneurship of TPU.