COLLABORATE. ENGAGE. SOLVE. WSA Youth for Innovation

For six weeks, 41 students from 6 participating Universities have addressed 8 entrepreneurial business challenges, hosted by former WSA Winners. The real-life challenges of the WSA entrepreneurs ranged from business development to marketing strategies, with the goal for the students to engage in collaboration to find the best solutions.

 

 

 

The WSA Youth for Innovation program supports the students not only with a series of webinars, held by international business experts, ranging from of business development topics such as community building, UN SDGs, impact thinking & impact measurement to pitching, the students also gained the unique opportunity to enter the global WSA network.

 

Grouped on their expertise and where they felt they could best contribute towards a specific challenge, the student teams worked closely with the WSA entrepreneurs, and were guided by experienced academia student team leads, supporting and mentoring them in their solution development.

 

In the final phase the student teams are presenting their solution to a jury, gaining hands-on experience on pitching a business solution to international experts.

 

After an interesting pitching session, the jury had the hard task to select the best student teams as winners, based on a selection of criteria including the presentation of the pitch and the quality of the solution.

 

All teams presented great work, but in the end the following 3 teams stood out and were selected by the jury as this year´s WSA Youth for Innovation winners:

 

 

Students working on the challenge of The Museum of Yesterday

 

 

Pia Mering and Maike Tachil - Fachhochschule Kiel, Germany

Tim Shanahan - Salzburg College, Austria

Vuk Ilić - MEF Faculty Belgrade, Serbia

Hansjuerg Michel - FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, School of Business

 

Challenge Host: Babak Fakhamzadeh - Agëncia Pública, The Museum of Yesterday, Brazil

Student Team Lead: Mason Wirtz - Salzburg College, Austria

 

 

Students working on the challenge of MedShr

 

 

Henrike Barg and Lea Jungsthöfel - Fachhochschule Kiel, Germany

Eetu Kemppainen - Laura, Finnland

Maurus Basler and Richard Moser - FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland,  School of Business

 

Challenge Host: Janis Pereira - MedShr, UK

Student Team Lead: Lynn Lim - FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland,  School of Business

 

 

Students working on the challenge of ScarletRed

 

 

Nikola Bajic - MEF Faculty Belgrade, Serbia

Adelina Mehmed - Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, North Macedonia

Chantal Baumgartner and Niklas Bauer - FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland,  School of Business

 

Challenge Host: Dorotea Neuberg - Scarletred Holding GbmH, Austria

Student Team Lead: Ivana Lešević - MEF Faculty Belgrade, Serbia

 

 

All winners will receive a digital participation certificate, promotion through the WSA communication channels and their CV’s to be sent to the WSA network along with a recommendation letter from WSA.