OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

1. BEST courses for students of technology

Deadline: 2013-10-13

BEST, Board of European Students of Technology is a nonprofit student organization run by students and working for students. It organizes different international activities and courses addressed to students of member universities.

Find more on ongoing calls:

http://eurodesk.org/edesk/SearchDb.do?go=1&progId=EU0010000329&show

2. European Union Women Innovators Prize 2014

Deadline: 2013-10-15

The Prize for Women Innovators aims to increase public attention to Europe's need of more innovators and it encourages well-educated women researchers to explore the commercial and business opportunities by their research projects, become entrepreneurs and therefore help to achieve the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy.

Eligibility

To be a woman resident of an EU Member State or a country associated to the Research Framework Program.

To be the founder or co-founder of an existing and active company registered before January 1, 2011. The annual turnover of the company should be at least EUR 0.10 million in 2011 or 2012.

Either the candidate as a natural person or the company founded/co-founded by the candidate has received or is receiving EU funding from the European Union or the European Atomic Energy Community Research Framework Program or from the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Program (CIP).

Prizes

First prize: EUR 100.000

Second prize: EUR 50.000

Third prize: EUR 25.000

Find more:

http://eurodesk.org/edesk/SearchDb.do?go=1&progId=EU0010000487&show