This week was the kickoff of Innovation Summer School with 24 young entrepreneurs

The Innovation Summer School, a program for young people to develop entrepreneurial skills, started on Monday, July 17 and is already ending the first week planned for the 24 participants, selected from more than 50 applications, who are experiencing the innovation process first-hand through the collaborative development of a new business, product or service. This program is a joint initiative of Unicorn Factory Lisboa and Startup Lisboa, in collaboration with the American companies Co-Created and Hudson Lab Ventures, and counts with Sonae and WTF, NOS' brand aimed at young people, as partners.

In this first week at ISEG, we heard real testimonies from startup founders from the Startup Lisboa community and had inspiring talks from Professor João Duque, Dean of ISEG; Christian Rocas, former creative strategist at Instagram and former CEO of Porta dos Fundos and Carlos Fonseca Almeida, Head of Product and Digital Marketing at NOS, who shared the challenges that the students will try to solve. In the next and last week of the program, we will have the stories of our startups sheerMe and EMOTAI, among other initiatives, such as the session "Empathy & Design Thinking" with NOVA IMS. The Pitch Day is scheduled for Friday the 28th at LACS Conde D'Óbidos.

We hope to one day welcome the young people from the Innovation Summer School into the Startup Lisboa community as founders of their own innovation businesses!