Twenty two projects of the islands of São Miguel (17), Santa Maria (2), Terceira (1), São Jorge (1) and Pico (1) disputed this year’s edition of the Entrepreneurship Regional Competition, which awards were delivered on Tuesday, in Ponta Delgada.
It was the third edition of an initiative which, especially, aims at stimulating the participation of the youngsters in the economical activity, through the creation of appropriate innovatory business plans to the needs of market.
The sector of the tourist animation was the one that gathered a bigger number of candidatures, followed by the catering, the consultancy, the marketing, the technologies of information and the services.
In first place it was the “Criolabaçores” project, which has for objective the creation of the first bank of blood of umbilical cord to offer collect, transport, processing and isolation and stem cells bank.
The second prize was for the "Tritur", a project that intends to apply innovatory methodologies in the execution of the process of elimination of documentary masses, with direct and indirect benefits for the organizations and for the environment.
At third place the BrandExpert project was awarded a prize, in the Advising in Communication area, and that it takes the development of appropriate and innovatory multimedia products as purpose for the promotion of its clients.