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Minister launches Enterprise Ireland Student Entrepreneur Awards

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17 February 2014

nterprise Ireland has opened entries for its 2014 Student Entrepreneur Awards. This competition challenges students to build a real-world business venture with a chance to win a prize from the overall €30,000 cash prize fund and €30,000 consultancy fund, which includes a €10,000 first prize.

The Awards – sponsored by Invest Northern Ireland, Intel, Cruickshank Intellectual Property Attorneys and Grant Thornton – are the island of Ireland’s biggest enterprise competition for third level student teams. The priority is to get students thinking now about starting their own business as a career option once they graduate.

Launching the Awards, Minister  for Small Business John Perry said: “Young entrepreneurs and third level students are a seed bed for future business start-ups and as such they should be part of Ireland getting back on its feet and the drive to stimulate more micro and small business activity and create jobs. They can be our successful entrepreneurs of the future and we need to really tap into the potential for them to help drive the economy by starting their own business as a real career option. We have to encourage and stimulate these students to be ambitious about their own potential to go into business for themselves, and these awards are a really important opportunity for them to test their flair for this.”

This year for the first time Enterprise Ireland are asking students to submit a video promoting their idea and showing its commercial and export potential.

Other features of the competition include a website, Facebook page, Twitter account and podcasts dedicated to reaching out to students.

Closing date for entries is 17 March 2014.

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