Arqus Opens the Call for the ISLYE (International Soft Landing for Young Entrepreneurs) Applications 2021-22

Sukurta: 04 August 2020

islyeInterested in testing your product/service in an international market? Want to be mentored and receive feedback from experts, successful entrepreneurs and market specialists?

The Arqus University Alliance (University of Bergen, Granada, Graz, Leipzig, Lyon-St Etienne, Padova and Vilnius) is pleased to announce the launch of its International Soft Landing for Young Entrepreneurs (ISLYE) programme. This is a unique opportunity for student-entrepreneurs and incubatees affiliated to Arqus Universities to participate in an incubator-to-incubator mobility experience.

Arqus’s ISLYE international mobility for student entrepreneurs aims to offer international mobility opportunities between Arqus cities, to student entrepreneurs by establishing partnerships between the universities’ incubators (or partner incubators). All services and resources offered to incoming student entrepreneurs from partner incubators for the development of their internationalization strategy are offered free of cost.

Why should you participate?
International mobility is beneficial for student entrepreneurs as they will receive:

  • Experience of intercultural approach to business
  • Support for their entrepreneurial project through international mentoring and coaching
  • Meet startups and companies on a “peer to peer” basis
  • Develop their business network with help from the partners in the ISLYE network

All applications are to be submitted online, by 22nd October, here.

  • Selection results will be announced by the end of October.
  • The training phase (remote mentoring and coaching session) will take place from November to December.
  • Final mobility periods for incubation in 2022 is to be decided between the selected student entrepreneurs and the host incubators later in the year.
     

For more information (funding opportunities, eligibility, other related issues), please contact Vilniaus University Innovation Office: ; ph. 8 5 2687017 or refer to:  https://www.arqus-alliance.eu/news/call-applications-islye-programme .

Call for mobility towards the incubators of our academic partners of the Arqus University Alliance will be launched:

  • Bergen (Norway)
  • Granada (Spain)
  • Graz (Austria)
  • Leipzig (Germany)
  • Lyon-St Etienne (France)
  • Padua (Italy)
  • Vilnius (Lithuania)