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ItalianoOnce again this year, the Entrepreneurial University® awarded outstanding business and product ideas from its students. 81 students demonstrated their wealth of ideas, their entrepreneurial potential and their founding spirit. The submissions reflect the entire range of studies and research offered at the MCI and come from business and social science disciplines as well as from the field of technology & life sciences.
A jury of experts reviewed the 37 business ideas submitted in a demanding multi-stage selection process and nominated eleven finalists. In addition to prize money for the first five places, subscriptions were awarded to all prize winners in cooperation with the daily newspaper "Die Presse". Special prizes were also awarded in the categories "Project with the greatest social impact" and "Concept most ready for implementation". The three best teams will also be invited to selected focus sessions at the I.E.C.T. - Summer School 2022, where they will be able to present their entrepreneurial idea in the context of "Idea meets Business".
The following ideas finally convinced the jury and earned a place on the five winners' podiums:
1.1st place: Sebastian Seewald and Simon Deiser(Master's programme Mechatronics & Smart Technologies)
"PORI - Portable Rehabilitation Interface": PORI offers a novel solution for effective stroke or accident rehabilitation at home with a focus on the motor-sensory function of the hand. Its strength is the innovative combination of hardware and software components: The former are low-cost and portable, yet provide propulsion; the latter are patient-specific and adaptive, which increases motivation for longer-term use.
2.1st place: Victor-Emanuel Westerthaler(Master's programme Entrepreneurship & Tourism)
"YourLove2Lock": YourLove2Lock offers cities and municipalities an efficient solution to offset the public costs of refurbishing and maintaining love locks. This means that padlocks attached to bridges, for example, will no longer be a problem in the future.
3.Place: Daniel Bayer(Bachelor of Business Administration Online)
"Fingu: Lack of financial education is a major social problem. Fingu has dedicated itself to solving this very problem and accompanies everyone through the challenging world of finance. By using the platform, one becomes an independent and profitable financial market participant who can manage his or her finances independently.
4.1st place: Kevin Mack with Peter Grabowitz and Felix Engelmann(graduate of the Master's programme in Biotechnology)
"LabNode": LabNode is a software for managing research data. All entries are machine-readable and the system understands relationships between data and documentation. LabNode maps the entire R&D workflow and is intended to become the SAP of the laboratory.
5. 1st place: Anna Oberprieler, Nadine Spranger and Ramona Schmitz(Master's programme Biotechnology)
"CRISPR-based diagnostic testing platform": The CRISPR-based test platform enables rapid, specific and inexpensive detection of bacterial and viral pathogens and combines the advantages of PCR and antigen testing in corona testing, for example.
Special prize "Project with the greatest social impact": Julia Baumgärtner(Bachelor's degree programme in Nonprofit, Social & Health Management)
Hofleben e.V. - Lern- und Erlebnisbauernhof: The project "Hofleben e.V. - Lern- und Erlebnisbauernhof" develops support concepts for multifunctional agriculture using the example of farm kindergartens and makes an important contribution in the social sector.
Special prize "Concept most ready for implementation": Martin Moser and Christian Gfader(Bachelor's degree programme Mechatronics, Design & Innovation)
MCI Fire Tech: In the course of this project, an automated device for winding fire hoses was developed, which convinced as the concept most ready for implementation.
MCI would like to thank the partners of this year's Creativity Awards Startup.Tirol, Industriellenvereinigung Tirol, Handelskammer Schweiz-Österreich-Liechtenstein, I.E.C.T. - Hermann Hauser and the daily newspaper "Die Presse" for providing the cash and non-cash prizes worth 13,000 euros.