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Each year, all first-year CentraleSupélec students get to experience entrepreneurship during the Startup Week : a full week dedicated to the exploration of business creation.
For 5 days, divided into small groups and mentored by professional coaches, all students must imagine a solution to an everyday problem and lay the groundwork for their future startup: product, market, growth, resources... They are encouraged to adopt a true entrepreneurial mindset to find a solution to a real-world problem.
And even if only a handful of them might create a company later, we at CentraleSupélec believe it's essential to introduce them to entrepreneurship to instill in them an approach and instincts that will serve them in their future lives: personal and professional.
Featuring inspiring events for the students, Startup Week is a key event at CentraleSupélec, and this year it welcomed two partners alongside us: OnePoint and Vestiaire Collective.
An opening conference with Voluntis:
This year, the three co-founders of Voluntis, the first company incubated at the school in 2001, Romain Marmot, Pierre Leurent, and Etienne Vial, all CentraleSupélec alumni, shared their entrepreneurial journey since their time at the school. An inspiring and enthusiastic testimony organized by the CentraleSupélec Foundation, the school, and Génius the CentraleSupélec student entrepreneurship association.
Start is good, up is better!
For the third consecutive year, Yvon Gattaz, founder of Radiall and CentraleSupélec alumnus, visited the school during Startup Week to present the award "Starting is good, scaling up is better" to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. This year, Damian Py, founder of Daan Tech who designed the BOB mini-dishwasher, won the award. Daan Tech aims to reindustrialize France and makes it a point of honor to manufacture its products 100% in France.
Supporting student entrepreneurship:
What better way to feel inspired than to follow the example of your peers? Startup Week was also an opportunity for the CentraleSupélec Foundation to award 5 business creation support grants to promising student projects.
The 2022 Startup Week Winners:
At the end of this eventful week, the 10 most promising projects among the nearly 900 first-year students pitched their ideas to the entire cohort.
4 awards were presented:
- The Jury and Student Award was given to the Safeband project: a solution to improve personal safety at festivals.
- The Audacity Award by our partner OnePoint for the CUT project
- The Impact Award by our partner Vestiaire Collective for the MaksCycle project
- The Genius Award
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