Infoglobo?s contest in partnership with FGV awards entrepreneurship among young people

There were 32 competitors and 10 finalists, but only three projects won the Prêmio Jovens Empreendedores (Young Entrepreneurs Prize) ? contest promoted by Infoglobo in partnership with FGV Management Rio. The awards ceremony was held on May 29 at Casa do Saber, in Rio de Janeiro.
Institutional
06 June 2014

There were 32 competitors and 10 finalists, but only three projects won the Prêmio Jovens Empreendedores (Young Entrepreneurs Prize) ? contest promoted by Infoglobo in partnership with FGV Management Rio. The awards ceremony was held on May 29 at Casa do Saber, in Rio de Janeiro.Bubble App was the first place ? a geolocation tool which allows the creation and search of information about a local, designed by Danton Mello in partnership with Hugo Carvalho. The project was granted a prize of R$ 15 mil. The second and third were, respectively, the projects O Formigueiro ? a crowdfunding for education projects created by the students Gabriel Richter, Pedro Hermann and Renan Ferreirinha Carneiro ? and Greenpoint, a project of photovoltaic stations to charge smartphones and electric bicycles for free, by the entrepreneurs Roberto Ferreira and Nilson Vasconcellos. Gabriel Richter, one of the creators of the Formigueiro, is a student from FGV/EPGE ? Brazilian Graduate School of Economics.Among the criteria used to choose the winners by the jury members ? composed by the courses coordinator of FGV Management Rio, Ricardo Franco Teixeira; by the journalists Léa Cristina and Maíra Amorim, from Boa Chance, and by the representants of Cria Global and Endeavor Florencia Estrade and Alexandre Caseira ? were the capacity of the projects in innovating and transforming the society, besides their sustainability.?We had a hard time choosing the 10 finalists, because the 32 projects chosen were very good. Choosing the three winners was also hard. We need young people developing innovating project, that are able to transform the world and the way things are done, and ideas that can be catalyzed by society?, said Teixeira, recalling that the brazilians who seek for the entrepreneurship for need are still the majority. ?It is necessary to stimulate youngsters to become entrepreneurs?.

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