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Grand Final of Entrepreneurship is on February 25th

21-02-2022

On the 25th of February, the 12 best business projects selected from 200 projects by master's and doctoral students in science and engineering will be presented to the community and a selected jury of senior business representatives.

This year, the event will be broadcast via youtube.

Since 2012, NOVA School of Science and Technology has included a mandatory curricular unit of Entrepreneurship for all 1st year students of Master's and Doctoral courses, covering around 1000 students per year.

The Curricular Unit is developed on a full-time basis and this year lasted for three weeks in the month of February. During this time, the students where required to develop a technological business project and prepare a final presentation, in an elevator pitch style, to a panel of researchers and entrepreneurs.

This program is integrated in the NOVA TechShip initiatives, which brings together all the activities and entrepreneurship opportunities of FCT NOVA.