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Largest Open Innovation Initiative for Winter Sports, Mountain Sports and Cycling
Actua and Global Sports Innovation Center powered by Microsoft (GSIC) launch the Andorra Sports Startup Challenge, looking for innovative solutions that improve the user’s experience and loyalty to de-seasonalize the sports and tourist offer in Andorra.
The call is closed
We are looking for projects and startups offering innovative solutions that improve the user’s experience and loyalty to de-seasonalize the sports and tourist offer in Andorra
The GSIC and Actua want to bring together startups and innovators with an ambition of disrupting the sports industry. This initiative is aiming to nurture innovation, foster the entrepreneurship, and enable sports industry development through cross-sector collaborations which drive innovation and business.
AREAS OF COMPETITION
The call aims to identify the most promising technological solutions that can help improve the user’s experience and loyalty to de-seasonalize sports and tourist offer in Andorra. In this sense, participants will submit projects that operate in the following use cases:
TIMELINE
Andorra Sports Startups Challenge will be developed in different phases
NOVEMBER 9
DECEMBER 18
DECEMBER 22
JANUARY 27
FEBRUARY 3
PRIZES
We will select 1 winner and 2 special mentions.
The winner will receive the following prizes:
The 3 best rated startups (including the winner) will also receive the following prizes:
ORGANIZERS
Global Sports Innovation Center powered by Microsoft (GSIC) is a business cluster powered by Microsoft Sport Team that gathers all kind of sports entities (clubs, federation, associations), institutions, tech-companies (from start-ups to enterprises), research organizations, investors and key figures of sport industry to improve its value chain. To do so we focus our activities and services on 6 main points: entrepreneurship, networking, applied research, showcase, Microsoft Partners Solutions and digital transformation advisory services. More than 340 companies from 38 different countries have already received support from the GSIC through different activities, as well as from their ambassadors and network of professionals of the sports industry.
Invest in Andorra / Innovation Hub Andorra (Actua) is a key player in the enhancement of competitivity, innovation and sustainability of the Andorran economy through promoting key sectors for the diversification of the economy, being a motor in the improvement of the public sector and microeconomic environment, attracting and supporting both foreign and local investment in key sectors, providing support to Andorran businesses so as to be more competitive on a National and International scale, and creating favorable conditions for innovation and entrepreneurship, in both the public and private sectors, in order to consolidate Andorra as a Living Lab.
