FW:2024 National Taiwan Normal University Sixth Annual Startup Arena
1、 Main Goal of the Event
This competition aims to cultivate students’ abilities to start their own businesses and encourage them to come up with business plans as a team, to learn across disciplines and utilize their talents, applying their knowledge and theories on executing startups creatively. With consultations from expert instructors in industries and judges, the event hopes that all contestants will gain fruitful knowledge of entrepreneurship.
2、 Organizers
Supervisors: Ministry of Education
Organizers: Innovation and Incubation Center, National Taiwan Normal University Department of Technology and Engineering Master Startup Program
3、 Schedule and Items
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Stage |
Dates |
Notice |
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Stage One Registration for the first round |
Registration ends on 2024/5/27 (Mon) 5:00PM |
Please visit https://forms.gle/TECzettvCfCpxkTN8 to sign up by filling the online form and uploading the 6 documents. Late submissions will not be accepted. |
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Announcement of the finalists |
2024/6/11 (Tue) |
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Professional consultation |
From 2024/6/15 (Sat) to 2024/6/19 (Wed) |
The teams who have entered the final round can apply for consultation with professional mentors. The contents of the consultation will include how to draft business plans and presentations. |
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Stage Two Finalist Info |
Submission period ends on 2024/6/24 (Mon) 12:00 PM |
Please send the electronic copies of finalist business plans and oral presentation to the designated link. |
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Finals & Awards Ceremony |
2024/6/28 (Fri) |
The finals will be in the form of oral presentations and questions from the judges for 15 minutes (7 minutes of oral presentation, 8 minutes of questions). Details of the event (time, venue, and such) will be announced later.
※ The organizers reserve the right to make changes to online or physical venues. |
4、 Eligibility
- Competing teams should include 2 to 5 people; current students in universities and colleges (including undergraduate and postgraduate students), and graduated students from the last 2 academic years (the current year and the year before, ie. 2022 and 2023) are eligible to form teams and sign up regardless of departments, years, and disciplines. Each person can only join 1 team. Over one half of the team members must be enrolled students.
- Each team must appoint a representative as the competition liaison.
- An advisor is not a requirement for registration. Each team can only have one advisor, who will not be counted as a team member.
- Teams that have accepted startup consultations from other governmental or private organizations (such as Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), U-Start Plan for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, etc), or have applied to set up a company cannot join this competition.
5、 Categories
- This competition has two team categories: international teams and domestic teams. Teams can sign up for the competition regardless of industry or discipline types.
- The teams that sign up for the international category must provide English electronic versions of sign-up forms and presentation and present entirely in English during the finals. Domestic students can also sign up for the internal group.
Please see attached for more details.
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Division of Industry-Academia Cooperation and Career Development
Anmigel Lin
anmigel@mail.ntue.edu.tw
2024 National Taiwan Normal University Sixth Annual Startup Arena poster.pdf
