The International Create Challenge is a free of charge, 3-week immersive super accelerator program that gives entrepreneurs the opportunity to drive their projects to a Minimum Viable Product. It is a program combining state-of-art technologies and cutting edge research, mentors-lead coaching, micro-seed investment and a star prize of more than CHF 100’000.- . Application deadline for the first step is 28 April.
The International Create Challenge provides the ideal breeding space and resources to drive early stage technology innovation into Minimum Viable Products and start-ups, providing top-notch coaching, seed funding and competitive prizes. The format is a free of charge, 3-week program in which around 10 teams of 2 - 3 people, composed of developers, researchers, entrepreneurs and/or designers, will be engaged. The project selection is focused around the IM2/Idiap domains of research and technologies.
Research themes of the Idiap Research Institute are: Perceptual and cognitive systems, social/ human behavior, information interfaces and presentation, biometric Person Recognition and machine learning. A overview of the research done within the framework of the IM2 NCCR can be found on the IM2 website.
The best three teams will each receive CHF 10’000.- cash of prize money. There is also the possibility to negotiate seed funding in exchange of up to 10-15% of equity of the created company. Should one of the teams decide to create a company locally by integrating the IdeArk Incubator, additional grants will be delivered: an open access to the The Ark Incubator with in-kind support of over CHF 100,000.-, CHF 10’000.- in the form of a The Ark Scholarship and other advantages.
Application process
Highly motivated applicants will be selected based on the information uploaded via online forms available on the ICC’2014 platform (www.createchallenge.org ). The call for participation is split into two successive competitive steps:
The objective of the first step is to select applicants based on their CV, know‐how, motivation and experience in the eligible areas. Applicants must submit their CV together with a cover letter explaining their motivation. Only successful applicants of step 1 will have the opportunity to participate in the second step.
Between step 1 and step 2, 1st step selected candidates will be included in a private LinkedIn group, comprising also the selected candidates of the previous year. This LinkedIn group provides the possibility to share ideas and technology portfolios and, if desired, to join a team/project.
The objective of the second step is to select projects/teams based on a full proposal. Successful first step applicants must set up a complementary team of 2‐3 (e.g. developer, entrepreneur, designer, researcher) that will take part in the ICC’2014. The other team members do not necessarily have to be candidates selected during step 1. The project proposal can only be submitted by a first step selected candidate who is part of a team of 2‐3.
Application deadline for Step 1: 28 April
Application deadline for Step 2: 13 June
The ICC’2014 will take place from 26 August – 16 September 2014 at the Centre du Parc in Martigny.
Mor information on the web platform of ICC'2014.
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