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InternazionaleGiovedì, 5 Maggio, 2022 - 17:00
applications by 9 May 2022
IKIGAI: Scholarships and funding for start-ups up to 30,000 Euro with the Fondazione MPS programme
On Thursday, May 5, 2022, at 5:00 p.m., Davide Cecchini - Managing Director of IKIGAI, the entrepreneurial and professional acceleration programme of Fondazione MPS - will present to the students of the University of Siena the opportunities of the programme and how to join it.
The event will take place on line, at:
The presentation will be held in English.
The IKIGAI programme was created to support the development of young people and the creation of new enterprises. It is structured in two main tracks:
- the IKIGAI STARTUP Academy & Hub
- the IKIGAI Training programme.
The IKIGAI STARTUP Academy & Hub track is dedicated to the development of new startups and offers: a free entrepreneurship course, the "Impresa e Startup" course to acquire tools and methodologies to launch entrepreneurial projects.
The first edition of the course will take place in Siena from 16 to 27 May 2022.
Then, starting from June 2022, the incubation and acceleration programmes will be developed, dedicated to supporting early-stage startup teams, with activity programmes for project development and investments up to 30,000 Euros.
The IKIGAI Formazione track is a Scholarship programme dedicated to the professional development of young people aged between 18 and 35 years who live or study in Siena, Grosseto and Arezzo: the programme offers individual Scholarships of up to 6,000 Euros for the realisation of professional development projects, such as specialisation through on-the-job training and study and work experience in Italy and abroad (applications by 9 May 2022).