Young innovators in Vaud will once again be given the chance to kindle their entrepreneurial spirit at the Silicon Valley Startup Camp, which will take place from 28 August to 4 September 2016. The application deadline for this fourth edition of the Startup Camp is 15 May, via the Camp’s Facebook page.
The idea behind the Silicon Valley Startup Camp is to give local high-potential students interested in setting up their own business the chance to gain first-hand exposure to the entrepreneurial mindset that is so pervasive in Silicon Valley. As in the past, Startup Camp attendees will have a packed schedule with business coaching, visits to universities, hands-on innovation workshops, meetings with venture capitalists, and insider tours of companies such as AirBnB, Facebook and Twitter.
The Startup Camp is being organized in collaboration with Swissnex San Francisco, a Swiss organization created to strengthen ties between Switzerland and North America in the areas of science, education, art and innovation. The project is being promoted on Facebook and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), the University of Lausanne (UNIL), and the School of Business and Engineering-Vaud (HEIG-VD). Students are invited to apply by 15 May via the Silicon Valley Startup Camp Facebook page (in English, one page maximum). Up to ten budding entrepreneurs will be selected by a jury made up of representatives from each project partner. The 2016 edition of the Camp will take place from 28 August to 4 September.
The Silicon Valley Startup Camp is being financed and run by BCV, which initiated the project, in collaboration with UNIL, EPFL, HEIG-VD, the Vaud Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CVCI), the Fondation pour l’Innovation Technologique, Swissnex, and the Journal des arts et métiers.
Lausanne, Switzerland, 14 April 2016
Contact information
Christian Jacot-Descombes, Press Officer
Tel.: + 41 21 212 28 61
Email: christian.jacot-descombes@bcv.ch
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