Four student teams participated in the Start Up Weekend Athens Youth event and pitched mobile application ideas. The first team's "Awkward" app would offer excuses and discussion topics to help users escape awkward situations. The second team's "StudInnov" platform would connect students with skills and ideas to companies seeking to support projects. The third team's "E-ygeia" app and bracelet would collect medical information about the user to share with doctors in emergencies. The fourth team's "Active Citizen" app would allow citizens to inform local authorities about issues needing fixing, and was awarded for having the biggest social impact.
2. Awkward
0 The first group was consisted of Valerius, Edita (pupils of C "grade) and Emma (newcomer in
Piraeus University Economics Department). Their idea - with the characteristic title Awkward
- concerns a mobile application that will "save" its users from awkward or even dangerous
situations – like an indifferent and boring appointment - offering escapism excuses,
discussion topics, and even false buttons of self-call or 'panic' buttons notifying their loved
ones. At the end of the Start Up Weekend Athens Youth they had been emerged as the team
with the most innovative idea.
3. StudInnov
0 The second group was formed by Spyros, Marialena (pupils of B "grade) and Spiros, Paul (Informatics and Mathematics
students at the University of Athens respectively). The idea that they worked on is called StudInnov and concerns a
platform that connects pupils and college students with skills and ideas to cooperate with companies that want to "hatch"
or to support their projects. In the end of the night, they took the prize for best presentation.
0 The original form of the idea came from the student Spyros during last year's participation in the virtual enterprise contest
Junior Achievement, a concept of an eco-lighting bicycle mechanism, which essentially creates a bright bikeway.
4. E-ygeia
0 E-ygeia is the idea of an application combined with a special bracelet which
collects many medical information about his user. More specifically, this
innovation can inform doctors, nurses, even passengers in case of
emergency. The e-ygeia was awarded as the best business model but it is
also good to know that according to the team, their participation had as
purpose to learn to collaborate and not to just make an application.
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5. Active Citizen
0 Active Citizen is also an application, which is designed by the
numbered team of the Athens Youth. This application has the aim to
give to citizens the ability of informing the local authorities, when
there is a failure or any problem, so that that it will be fixed. This
startup was awarded as the idea with the biggest social impact.
6. Active Citizen
0 Active Citizen is also an application, which is designed by the
numbered team of the Athens Youth. This application has the aim to
give to citizens the ability of informing the local authorities, when
there is a failure or any problem, so that that it will be fixed. This
startup was awarded as the idea with the biggest social impact.
