KICK-OFF MEETING PROJECT HIVE “HEI INNOVATION FOR KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP”

As part of the international programme “Entrepreneurship: Turning Ideas into Business” in the field of international cooperation between Dnipro University of Technology and 10 leading European universities, and with the support of the European Union's European Institute of Innovation and Technology programme “Innovation in Higher Education Institutions to Support Knowledge-Based Entrepreneurship”, the EU's Horizon Europe programme 2021-2027, the kick-off meeting took place on 6 March 2024 as part of the mentoring programme “Startup Sprint – DniproTech”. 

More than 40 participants from the first and second cohorts of the training course “Entrepreneurship: Turning Ideas into Business” took part in it. This provided them with practical experience and the necessary tools for a successful business start-up. Participants had the opportunity not only to learn about the process of creating a new enterprise, but also to develop skills in interdisciplinary collaboration, creative thinking, and decision-making under time constraints. 

A power team of project professionals, including Maryna Lytvyn (coordinator), Mykola Trehub, Serhii Kasian, Larysa Kolisnyk, Tetiana Bulana, conducted comprehensive innovative interactive sessions on startup promotion, sustainable development, and marketing support on the first day of the Mentoring Programme.

The first mentor of the programme was Viktor Shuleshko, founder of the Green Future start-up and postgraduate student at Dnipro University of Technology, who shared his remarkable success story. He told participants in the international training programme “Entrepreneurship: Turning Ideas into Business”, run in collaboration with Dnipro University of Technology and leading European universities and supported by the European Union's European Institute of Innovation and Technology programme, about his journey from idea to business. Viktor Shuleshko is a true visionary and entrepreneur who managed to turn a challenge into an opportunity, science into business. After the destruction of the airport in Dnipro by hostile russia, where Viktor had his experimental research laboratory for vertical farms, he was able to create something truly impressive - a vertical farm that has become the emblem of a new approach to agriculture. His invention proved so effective that it attracted the attention of not only Ukrainian restaurateurs, but also international agrarians and experts.