Šimral (Pirates): Prague supports innovative events
31/08/2022 17:28 | Press Release
Council of the head m of Prague today agreed to provide subsidies and secure licenses enabling access of secondary schools and universities to the Innovation Week 2022 event, Disraptors Summit 2022 and Future Port Youth 2022. In total, this is financial support in the amount of almost 6 million crowns.
“By supporting these innovative events, we fulfill the city’s policy of budding entrepreneurs and startups. We want to encourage entrepreneurship among high school students as well and thus give them a competitive advantage in the current economic, social and cultural environment through determined innovations. These are events that, by their nature and scope, are entirely and exclusively from the side of Prague in the long term. Our effort is to constantly expand awareness of Prague as a cradle of innovative ideas and procedures and to achieve a connection between Prague and foreign innovators,” said Prague councilor for education, sports, science and business support Vít Šimral.
Innovation Week is traditionally the largest innovation event in Prague. This year’s edition will use the involvement of as many Prague high school students as possible with the aim of bringing them closer to key topics from the world of the latest technologies, teaching them to think creatively, innovatively and critically, and thus determining key skills for their future employment. Pupils will have access to seminars, an innovation fair and an innovation conference. The aim of Innovation Week is to present to the wider public the most interesting innovations that have developed in Prague. This year is the 7th year of the event, which takes place from October 10 to 17.
Disraptors Summit 2022 is a European startup platform that once a year organizes the European continental finals of a global competition linked to an international conference. This is the next year of the event following on from the successful Startup World Cup & Summit. The event is aimed at innovative young projects, investor entities and the world of commercial companies. Workshops, startup pitches, and presentations with interesting speakers, businessmen, investors, and mentors in the field are held throughout the event. It also includes a fair of innovative companies and the finals of the startup competition of Prague secondary schools.
Future Port Youth 2022 is conceived as an international hybrid event with top speakers from all over the world regularly participating in prestigious conferences. The event is aimed at students and teachers of secondary schools and universities in the Czech Republic and across Europe. Speakers include young innovators and leading people in their fields who can inspire and excite students
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author: PV