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Entrepreneurial Day 2019: UT Challenge reaches its apotheosis

Students participating in the UT Entrepreneurial Challenge have worked hard in recent months on their innovative business idea. With the help of experienced business coaches, they have improved on their plans and pitches in various workshops and innovation sessions. On Thursday 20 June during Entrepreneurial Day, the exciting conclusion will follow: the winners will be determined from the twenty remaining participants.

Entrepreneurial Day 2019

It has become an annual tradition, being held at the end of June: Entrepreneurial Day. What used to be the innovation lecture has been transformed into a packed program centered around talent and entrepreneurship. Guido Berben has been invited for this year's innovation lecture. He is one of the founders of the Tikkie payment app and can passionately tell how his startup has turned the world of online payment upside down. Young musical talent Mart Hillen is also present. You might have seen him recently on stage at the Twents Guitar Festival or heard him play on 3FM on the radio. Mart is a fingerstyle guitarist and can play the sound of a full-fledged band with his guitar. And of course the prizes will also be awarded: traditionally we will be presenting the Van den Kroonenberg prize and the Marina van Damme Scholarship at the event. Prior to the event there is the Entrepreneurial Market in the hall of the Waaier, where you can meet all participants of the Challenge and many other innovative exhibitors.

In short, a full program with a lot of inspiration and talent. You can still sign up for this afternoon: more info and register via www.utwente.nl/entrepreneurialday.

UT Entrepreneurial Challenge

A few years ago we started the UT Entrepreneurial Challenge: a competition in which talented students compete with each other for the most innovative business idea. Developing a good business idea is not so much a competition, but the mutual struggle gives the participants just that last push to get everything out for the best idea and the best pitch. To make a good comparison possible, there are three categories: Ideation, Prototyping and Start Up. A professional jury has a big voice in who wins the prize, but the public can also make their voice heard. On the website of the UT Challenge you can find out which twenty teams are allowed to participate in the final.