Queen’s Entrepreneurs’ Competition, Open to Undergraduates Worldwide

Queen’s Entrepreneurs’ Competition: The Queen’s Entrepreneurs’ Competition brings together the brightest young entrepreneurs from across the world to compete for $25,000 in cash prizes.

Competitors also have the chance to network with Canada’s leading business professionals.

The QEC has received business plan submissions from as far as Australia, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Scotland, South Africa , India, Singapore, Portugal, the U.S and the Philippines.

Here are some basic requirements that must be met to be eligible to compete at QEC:

• Competitors must be undergraduate students and can be from any faculty or program.
• Existing proposals are valid and qualify for consideration provided the plan has not qualified as a finalist in a previous QEC competition.
• Each team entered can have a maximum of four students and one faculty advisor.
• Entrants may involve the help of other students to produce parts of the plan. These students do not have to be registered members of the group.

Business plans must be received electronically by November 5.

One World Scholarship Programme (EWS) – Austria: The One World Scholarship Program (EMS) is aimed at students from developing countries at Austrian universities and sees itself as a contribution to peaceful coexistence with people from different regions of origin through the promotion of equality, dialogue, intercultural know-how and partnership.

The study grant scheme is a contribution to redeeming the right to education for young intellectuals who otherwise find insufficient conditions in their region of origin.

The study grant scheme, in this sense, offers an opportune compensation for ethnic, religious, social and regional discrimination as well as for isolated cases of human rights abuses.

Requirements and Conditions

1. Nationality of a Non-European developing country

2. Enrolment in an Austrian university

3. Financial need

4. Evidence of satisfactory progress in studies

5. Willingness to return to country of origin or another developing country

6. Age limit at the beginning of the scholarship (30 years – diploma/master programmes, 35 years – doctoral/PhD programmes).

Women, handicapped students, and students who have been discriminated and disadvantaged in their countries of origin for cultural, social, political and religious reasons have priority.

Grant awarding authority Information: Afro-Asian Institute (AAI) Graz (Place of study: Graz, Klagenfurt and Leoben), A-8010 Graz, Leechgasse 22, Tel: +43 316/32 44 34 58. e-mail: t.aichinger [at] aai-graz.at. www.aai-graz.at