Oksana Stetsenko, Nazar Ohorodnyk, Kateryna Oleksiichuk, Anastasiia Kulakova and Yasmin Yahan, second-year psychology students of the faculty № 6 of KhNUIA, will take part in the III annual competition of startup projects "Try it too!" among students, conducted by the NGO "State and me" in conjunction with the University of Bedfordshire (Luton, UK), Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics, Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogics Academy and LLC "Company of Intellectual Technologies" (Kyiv, Ukraine) within the framework of the project Create Creative Entrepreneurs of the program Creative Spark: Higher Education Enterprise Program from the British Council.
For the third time, the organizers are initiating the competition, realizing how important it is to give young people a chance to feel their potential, create a platform for the practical implementation of their creative business ideas and promote the development of students as future business leaders and creative entrepreneurs.
A special topic of 2021 is "Creative business: from idea to model".
The competition will take place in several stages. The winning teams and nominees who win in the special categories will be awarded prizes from the Create Creative Entrepreneurs project, supported by the British Council, and will be able to compete for the main prize - a study visit to one of the Creative Spark partnerships, as well as present their project at international competition Big Idea Challenge 2021, the final part of which is held by London Metropolitan University.
Mentors and students will also have the opportunity to join the international forum "Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Innovation: Management and Educational Trends of the Future" (IMPULSE 2021) free of charge.
This year the format of the competition is the most interactive and aimed at achieving a practical result. In working with coaches and consultants of the competition, each team will be able to develop a business model of their project and start moving towards its implementation.