Nuove Idee e Nuove Imprese: Registration open until 27 June
Rimini, May 19, 2020. Registration is now open for the 2020 edition of Nuove Idee Nuove Imprese, the business plan competition that rewards the most innovative business projects. The competition, which became the ¹ adult last year, reappears with some news that embrace the process of digitalization accelerated in recent months by the emergency from Coronavirus. The first phase, dedicated to training for all participants, which will start in July, will take place online on the Zoom platform.
It does not change, instead, the purpose of the contest "promote the development of local entrepreneurship by providing the tools to develop and give legs to the ideas particularly innovative, that the lockdown period may have stimulated.
The redefinition of the format = comments the President Maurizio Focchi It is now appropriate to the limitations provided for meetings between people, does not take anything away from the founding value of the business plan competition. The present, with its load of emergency and uncertainty, is at the same time a powerful stimulus to entrepreneurial creativity. What we offer is the support, in terms of high training and the concreteness of the evaluations on the enterprise, along a path that verifies objectives and feasibility for new companies. The changes do not demoralize the entrepreneurial spirit, but it is necessary to build around a wealth of knowledge that guarantees its full expression.New Ideas New Businesses for 19 years has kept this promise.
Up for grabs a substantial prize pool of 24,000 euros: 10,000 euros for the winning project, 6,000 euros for the second place and 3,000 euros for the third. It adds the prize of 5,000 euros made available by the Soroptimist International Club of Rimini to the deserving project whose group is composed of at least 50% of female presence and has as parent a woman. To the cash prizes are added the acceleration paths and support to the concrete development of the entrepreneurial initiative for the winning team, offered by Cesenalab and Romagna Teche, for the top three classified, a path of assistance, Two-month consultancy and services developed by the Skema Studio, which since last year has been successfully supporting the competition.
Competition Details
The competition is open to aspiring entrepreneurs and innovative companies launched in the last 18 months, who intend to develop in the provinces of Rimini, Forlì-Cesena or Republic of San Marino innovative business projects.Participants can register for free by submitting their business project through the online procedure on the page www.nuoveideenuoveimprese.it/ sign up by 27 June.
The association members of new business idea
Very active and involved, since the first editions, the partners of the initiative: Camera di Commercio della Romagna Forlì-Cesena e Rimini, SUMS Società Unione Mutuo Soccorso della Repubblica di San Marino, Confindustria Romagna, Uni.Rimini SpA – Società Consortile per l’Università nel riminese, Agenzia per lo Sviluppo Economico – Camera di Commercio della Repubblica di San Marino, Associazione Nazionale dell’Industria Sammarinese, Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino e San Marino Innovation.