A team of university students from Alfonso X El Sabio in Madrid, Spain, has won the Intel Innovation Award at the Junior Achievement Young Enterprise Europe Enterprise Challenge (YA-YE), and will go on to compete at theIntel Business Challenge Europe 2012. This year, over 15,000 students from 16 countries across Europe competed in the JA-YE Start-Up Programme.
The winning team, Teaching Building, scooped the award for developing a solution that helps provide low-cost homes using prefabricated concrete pieces featuring load-bearing walls as a structural element.
Tomás Sánchez Colomer from Teaching Building said, “according to the United Nations (UN), 2.5 billion people, of a total of 7 billion of the Earth’s population, do not live in a proper home. We at “Teaching Building” have found a solution to this problem.”
More information about the winning JA-YE project can be found online, here.