DHAKA, March 15, 2019 (BSS) – ‘Student to Start-Up’ competitions for
university students began today to find out young entrepreneurs having
innovative ideas as they can contribute to the country’s development.
Leading youth platform ‘Young Bangla’ and Innovation Design and
Entrepreneurship Academy (IDEA) project under ICT Division arranged the
competition with starting it at Daffodil International University (DIU) as
the contest will be held at different dates at 40 universities.
Students of all public and private universities across the country can
contest the competition by registering their names under 40 selective
university categories visiting ‘http://startupbangladesh.gov.bd/student-to-
startup/’ till May 3 while the registration process was introduced on March 8
last.
With the slogan of ‘My innovation, My Dream’, the Young Bangla, under the
auspices of Centre for Research and Information (CRI) is supervising the
competition.
“Students of any university can apply to contest the competition as they
have to register their names under 40 university categories,” CRI Associate
Coordinator Engineer Tonmoy Ahmed told BSS today.
He said students of several universities already registered their names as
every team will be formed consisting of three members, adding single student
can also participate in the competition.
Ahmed said from the participants, three teams will be chosen from each
university and some 120 teams will be qualified from 40 universities in the
process. Later a national start-up camp will be held at Savar with those
teams.
He said from those, audience and judge will select 30 teams which will take
part in final competition of the ‘Student to Startup: Chapter 1’.
In final competition, 10 start-up teams will be selected as winners and
each team will get money, advice and all kind of support to implement their
innovative ideas and rest of 20 teams will be selected for being groomed, he
added.
Project director of IDEA Syed Mojibul Haque said Startup Bangladesh Limited
will invest Taka one crore for potential start-up teams which will have
product value.
“We are working to find out entrepreneurs to help them implement their
potential initiatives. We are preparing next generation for the future,” he
said.
On March 15 in 2018, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between
country’s biggest youth network ‘Young Bangla’ and IDEA project of ICT
Division.
In 2009, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced the Vision 2021 to build a
digital Bangladesh.
The competition will be held at different dates at various universities.
Those are Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST) (Schedule is
yet to be confirmed), American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB)
(March 20 & 21), Asian University for Women (AUW) (April 12 & 13),
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University(BSMRSTU)
(March 20 & 21), Bangladesh Agricultural University(BAU) (April 21 & 22),
Bangladesh Army University of Engineering and Technology(BAUET) (March 24 &
25), Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT)(April 15 & 16),
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology(BUET)(May 2 & 3),
Bangladesh University of Professionals(BUP) (April 17 & 18), Bangladesh
University of Textiles(BUTex) (April 25 & 26).
Barisal University (BU) (March 29 & 30), Begum Rokeya University (BRU)
(April 8 & 9), BRAC University (BRACU) (March 27 & 28), Chittagong University
of Engineering & Technology (CUET) (April 10 & 11), Comilla University (April
2 & 3), DAFFODIL International University (DIU) (March 15 & 16), Dhaka
University of Engineering & Technology (April 4 & 5), East West
University(EWU) (March 18 & 19), Feni University(FU) (April 4 & 5), Hajee
Mohammad Danesh Science & Technology University(HSTU) (April 10 & 11),
Independent University, Bangladesh(IUB) (March 18 & 19), Islamic University
of Technology(IUT) (April 23 & 24) and Jahangirnagar University(JU) (April 28
& 29).
Jessore University of Science and Technology(JUST) (March 27 and 28),
Khulna University of Engineering & Technology(KUET) (April 19 & 20) Khulna
University(KU) (March 24 & 25), Leading University(LU) (April 26 & 27),
Military Institute of Science and Technology(MIST) (April 21 & 22),
Mymensingh Medical College(MMC) (April 19 & 20), North South University(NSU)
(April 1 & 2), Pabna University of Science and Technology(PUST)(April 13 &
15), Patuakhali Science and Technology University(PSTU) (March 31 & April 1)
and Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology(RUET) (April 16 & 17).
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology(SUST) (April 23 & 24), Sher
E Bangla Agriculture university(SAU) (April 30 & May 2), University of Asia
Pacific(UAP) (April 29 & 30), University of Chittagong(CU) (April 8 & 9) ,
University of Dhaka(DU) (March 30 & 31), University of Rajshahi(RU) (March 22
& 23), University of Science and Technology Chittagong(USTC) (April 6 & 7).