MCI awards prizes for innovative business ideas

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Once again, the already legendary MCI Creativity Award produced outstanding business ideas. Five students or student groups from all faculties of the MCI received the coveted awards.

With the support of Startup.Tirol, the Federation of Austrian Industry and the daily newspaper Die Presse, attractive cash and non-cash prizes worth more than 4,000 euros were awarded for the most innovative business ideas.

The prize winners and their ideas:

  • 1st place: Marcel Lettenbichler, Florian Haberl (Economics & Management) Chillice: A new way to cool your beer.
  • 2nd place: Maximilian Nißlein, Antonia Lex, Benjamin Obexer, David Patsch, Franziska Victoria Perle, Vanessa Santrač, Nora Schroeder, Jan Dominik Speidel, Dominik Weiskopf, Julia Widmann, Yvonne Wohlfahrter, Julia Zimmermann (Biotechnology) Optimised protein for more sustainable cheese production: "Our mission is to provide the biotechnological conditions for dairies to produce their products with the best possible efficiency and sustainability."
  • 3rd place:Kevin Höcherl (Biotechnology)Biolation: A new approach to skin-friendly hair treatment.
  • 4th place: Vera Maria Matzak, Giulia Szabo, Ferdinand von Liel, Maximilian Schweinberger (Nonprofit, Social & Health Management) #boostyourkarma breaks down prejudices, creates an inclusive meeting place, gives everyone the chance to get involved socially, supports local charities and looks stylish.
  • Place 5: Daniel Mur-Spiegl (Management, Communication & IT), Fabian Kainz (International Business & Management)Flitz.io individualises the provision of information in projects based on the interests of project staff and thus reduces the time spent on obtaining information.

The annual MCI Creativity Award honours outstanding business and product ideas and is aimed at all MCI students who want to assume economic and social responsibility through their entrepreneurial spirit. This year, a total of 50 students demonstrated their wealth of ideas, entrepreneurial potential and founding spirit. The submissions reflect the entire range of studies and research offered at the MCI and come from economic and social science disciplines as well as from the fields of technology and life sciences. The five award winners were selected by a critical jury in a demanding multi-stage selection process.

Marcus Hofer, Managing Director Startup Tirol: "The MCI Creativity Award gives students the opportunity to deal with central questions about the market potential of their idea. It's incredible what the motivated MCI students and their creative minds are capable of!"

Bernd Ebersberger, Head of Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the MCI: "With the MCI Creativity Award, the MCI opens the doors for its students to start a business. The winners are actually all: the local economy as well as the students, who receive individual feedback and support for their entrepreneurial concepts."

Andreas Altmann, MCI Rector: "As an Entrepreneurial University® we promote and challenge the entrepreneurial spirit of young people. With the Creativity Award, the MCI, together with its partners, sets impulses for entrepreneurial thinking and actively shapes the start-up environment in Tyrol."