Competitions

Elevator Pitch

An Elevator Pitch is a quick way of putting across the fundamental elements of a project, a business idea, a social cause or even one's professional qualifications and capturing the other person's attention to prompt him/her to action. The JCU Elevator Pitch Competition is a one-minute, no-visuals presentation testing students in skill. Intimidating as it might seem, the Elevator Pitch is an opportunity for students to become better speakers in a world that requires a high level of persuasive abilities.

Triggering Change - how to use creativity and engagement to inspire action on sustainability 

This is a two-tiered event which culminates in a two-minute pitch aiming to develop creative processes that inspire action on sustainability. Participants in the pitch (a video due on April 11 at 8 pm) will benefit from a 90-minute talk and workshop with the London-based creative agency The Liminal Space on March 14 at 6 pm (this is first-come, first-served), which in turn will be preceded by a prep activity starting on March 11. For more information on this prep activity and on the event, please see the Triggering Change page. 

Startup Lab 

The Startup Lab is the entrepreneurship program by Roma Tre University open to all university students, former students and professionals who want to experiment with their entrepreneurial skills and validate a business project. Participation in the program gives access to a European community of talented professionals, as well as a network of mentors, investors, accelerators and startups. Participants will learn about team building, problem statement, customer discovery, business modeling, creating a minimum viable product and pitching to an investor.

Note: counts towards the Certificate in Entrepreneurship.

BENGIS Challenge 

Organized by the Bengis Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Ben-Gurion University, Israel), the Challenge is an open-innovation platform. A global company presents a real-life challenge it is facing and asks students for their best ideas to solve the problem. Students from any discipline can submit their best idea for a chance to win prizes, tackle real-life problems and of course, have fun! In the process, they will gain knowledge about social impact, impact investing, triple bottom line, circular economy, the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs), corporate social responsibility (CSR) and crating shared value (CSV).

Note: counts towards the Certificate in Social Innovation.

JCU ENACTUS

The university has created a chapter of ENACTUS, an international, student-driven nonprofit organization that uses entrepreneurship to create social change. In its first year of existence, the JCU Enactus team won the national competition presenting "Our Common Thread", a project aiding people in need in the Trastevere community in Rome, offering them a job in tailoring through the refurbishing of second-hand clothes, leveraging the 75kg of clothing per year that visiting students leave behind.