Intel is a strong supporter of entrepreneurs as a critical part for future development and job creation. Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises – all of which were started by individuals – represent 99 per cent of all enterprises in the EU and account for 90 million jobs, making it important to identify and develop tomorrow’s entrepreneurs as the cornerstone of future prosperity.
The Finals of Intel's European business plan competion "Intel Challenge Europe" are going to happen Sep 26-28 in Sopot, Poland.
To participate, students submit a business plan and get the chance to present their innovative business ventures to a panel of venture capitalists, educational institutions and entrepreneurship organisations. The competition provides in-depth feedback on how to develop ideas and to turn them into real businesses. Participants also get the opportunity to network with other students and business leaders, all of which helps them to become successful entrepreneurs. The laureates of the European competition will be invited to join the global edition, Intel®Global Challenge@UC Berkeley, in November 2011.
Competition entries for the Intel Challenge Europe this year range from applications to assist with shopping and cookery tasks, through to developments in medical sciences and motoring technology. Over 30 teams from across Europe have been short-listed as semi-finalists and you can find a full list at the end of this page.
The Intel Challenge Europe finals will run in parallel with the European Forum for New Ideas. Christian Morales, Vice President and General Manager of Intel EMEA, will co-host a panel session at the Forum, on the future drivers of competitiveness of Europe and European enterprises, on 28 September 2011.
If you are interested or have any questions, please contact Diana Kaaserer, Intel EMEA Media Relations, +49 172 89 20 686 or Nick Fishleigh, Hill & Knowlton, +44 7584 205 500.
Intel Challenge Europe 2011 – Press Agenda
Tuesday, 27th of September
19:00 – 21:00 CET Introduction to the Intel Challenge Europe and Innovation Poster Session with Intel Challenge Semi-Finalists
21:00 CET Announcement of Intel Challenge Finalists
Wednesday, 28th of September
08:00 – 10:00 CET Breakfast media roundtable hosted by Intel: Supporting entrepreneurialism in Europe – how can we nurture tomorrow’s job creators?
10:00 – 14:30 CET Intel Challenge Finals (Judging Sessions)
Interviews with Intel executives can be arranged. 17.10 – 18:05 CET Intel Challenge Awards ceremony
17.45 CET Panel discussion “It’s the innovation, stupid!” at the European Forum of New Ideas hosted by Christian Morales, Intel VP and GM EMEA
Intel Challenge Europe 2011 – Semi-Finalists
Country | Project | Description |
Denmark | DobreTech | DobreTech offers the next generation of motor protection for users of medium size electrical motors, which can provide a full protection to the motor for an affordable price. |
WeDecide | Smart Group Decisions. WeDecide enables client communities to realize their collective wisdom by facilitating an engaging and transparent online decision process. | |
France | Appoke | Appoke is a social application market for Android phones. Its social network improves both users’ experience by giving them a new system to find apps and developers’ experience by offering them a way to spread apps inside a community. |
WeCook.fr | WeCook.fr's aim is to help people plan meals matching their tastes on a weekly basis or for a dinner with friends and therefore to be able to order shopping lists online easily. | |
Germany | BUCKY'o'ZUN | BUCKY'o'ZUN is a new technology which, as the first in the world, can protect 99,99% against all UV-radiation making it able to prevent skin cancer and extend the lifespan of various materials. |
EXTEND3D | EXTEND3D is revolutionizing the way of presenting information in industrial environments to significantly boost labor-intensive workflows. | |
Lingoking | Lingoking is an online-based platform, providing an accessible and user-friendly telephone interpreting service to anyone, at any time and from anywhere. | |
Greece | ELearning Motion Games | MS Kinnect based motion detection learning games for children with learning disabilities |
Hungary | Hand-in-scan | Hand-in-Scan enables the immediate and objective verification of surgical hand disinfection. This allows for the correct education and strict control of personal hand hygiene in the medical environment. |
SightQ | The sharp-sight-tester is which is based on IT and makes it possible to get quick, precise and without subjectivity sight testing with updated statistics and customised information. | |
Tresorium | Tresorium - The new generation cloud storage security | |
Israel | CUall | CUall develops an advanced collision warning system. |
EFA project | Our purpose is to create a diagnostic tool for Attention Deficit Disorder that works using physiological parameters. | |
FRESH | New aero-dynamic, mechanical and constructive concept of Wind Turbine allowing to build giant (100MW) one. | |
GreenSafe | Integral double-rounded house-energy generating/accumulating system. Provides excellent clean energy generation/usage parameters. Provides house the high safety against earthquakes | |
Photo-Genie | Photo-Genie is about getting a great shoot, in one click, without being a photography expert. | |
Italy | Technoganga | The rising price of many electro-medical devices makes many of them not accessible by developing countries. Our aim is to improve the quality of the health system in these countries, proposing low cost versions of already existing devices. |
Netherlands | Vooxl | Providing travelers with quality guiding using crowd-sourced audio tours, alleviating the pain of having to find quality reliable local guides. |
Poland | BrainOptics | Portable tool to diagnose traumatic hemorrhage at accident situation. The background of the instrument is near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) technique that uses the light to get information of a brain oxygenation and/or blood-flow. |
Innovators | RapidBasket is a modern, distributed system accessible from each Internet browser and even a mobile device which doesn’t necessarily have to be a high-end smart-phone. It uses the power of modern technologies in order to open the new era in a grocery shopping. | |
NeurON | Electronic device controlled by brain waves. We present a software and a headset that can use your thoughts, feelings, emotions for controlling devices, creating colors, music, arts, mind-keyboard. | |
P&P | A new generation mat for babies that helps keep baby sleeping and reduces the risk of cot death. | |
Mobile application designed for cooking using recipes, diets and what you have in your fridge. | ||
Romania | Alapago | RTVR offers a community driven platform for real-time visualizing malware spread. The service will provide real-time maps and relevant analysis for common users as well as free API access to researchers/industry/authorities to the database. |
CleverTaxi | CleverTaxi aims to forever change the way we order taxis, breaking down through waiting timeouts, language barriers, getting you the closest, cheapest, best value taxi, wherever you are. | |
Switzerland | PreDiVine | By using wireless sensors, PreDiVine predicts the evolution of vineyard diseases and suggests adjustments and targeted treatments, reducing the impact of infection and the number of treatments while saving the production costs. |
Nomad3D | Stereoscopic 3D (S3D) is the next revolution of TV and Mobiles. Fundamental problem: double complexity and reduction of battery life by 50%. NOMAD3D CODEC reduces the battery life by less than 10% and is a fast enabler for 3D FULL HD. | |
Turkey | Pikeman | Miner Instant Tracking System will be a system that simultaneously tracks positions of workers and equipment in the mine, records them and shows their location in a 3D map. Herewith, helping workers and saving equipment in any problems will be faster by knowing exact positions of them. |
United Kingdom | buildr.com | Aimed at families, friends, colleagues and enthusiasts; Buildr automates book creation and gives everyone involved a chance to participate. |
Heliomobil | Our mission is to provide affordable and easy-to-use supplemental technologies for residential solar energy collection systems that reduce initial investment costs, increase energy savings and promote global solar energy adoption. | |
In Touch | We propose to distribute a system directly to doctors that provides a single patient record that can be accessed and updated by different medical professionals whilst protecting the security of patient's personal information. | |
Eeve | Eeve is a mobile location-based social network for events. It allows users to discover and create the most interesting events in real time. | |
Scottson | The Scottson Mouse: the future of portable medical diagnostics. An affordable, pocket-sized, wireless ultrasound device making ultrasound diagnostics more accessible for all. |