YourStory partners with Challenge Future, a Global Youth Competition based in Europe
Friday March 26, 2010 , 2 min Read
YourStory is the exclusive media partner for Challenge Future which encourages students to predict the future trends related to various aspects of our life. This unique contest has brought together students and youth from all over the world. Many teams have members from different countries coming together to present innovative out of the box business ideas.
Challenge:Future is an open youth competition that demonstrates the youth creativity, their high potential and ability to foresee the future. It is the cross bridge of youth, schools, corporate companies and global challenges.
From the process of public IDEATION (ideas imagination) during the first-round challenges linked to the six challenge themes, the semi-finalist teams will be lead to development of CREATIVE PROPOSITIONS for corporate/organization challenges. The finalists will further elaborate them into INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS, integrating specific information and/or feedbacks received from companies.
To support the youth’s dreams and to help them achieve their visions, a EUR 20.000 award is given to the best team selected by community, expert judges and corporates. Additionally, several other awards will be given to the best corporate solutions and all members of the Finalist teams will be invited to Bled, with fully covered costs for the Finals
Challenge: Future is established by three founding partners, deeply committed to sustainability, prosperity and innovation:
Third Millennium Knowledge is encouraging human inspiration, sparkling ideas and fostering development of new knowledge for innovation strategies that are not jeopardizing the needs of third millennium generations.
CEEMAN is an established network of 170 business schools, universities and other partners from 43 countries connecting more than 200 000 students.
IEDC - Bled School of Management is one of the leading business schools in Central and Eastern Europe. Established in 1986 as a center for executive education, IEDC has served over 50 000 managers from more than 70 countries.
Apart from the main challenges for which the finalists are announced there are numerous other challenges where you can take part and win cool prizes. Apart from that this is a great opportunity to make friends from all over the world and indulge in healthy debates concerning youth. There is also a contest where in you could win a free trip to Slovenia!!
To find out more click here http://challengefuture.org/
