INSPIRE Mentoring Kick-Off Meeting / Workshop and 5th Project Meeting In Padang

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On November 19th - 20th, Selected Business Plan Competition winners along with project staff and external mentor from Universitas Sumatera Utara joined the INSPIRE Mentoring Kick-Off Meeting and Workshop in Universitas Andalas, Padang. All of the Partners from different universities also come and send their delegates. From the European partner, Lisa Mahajan from FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Maria Urbaniec and Agnez Zur from Krakow University of Economics, and Victor Climent from the University of Alicante also come to introduce the INSPIRE project and mentoring concepts both for students and mentors. The mentoring Kick-Off Meeting was opened by Vice-Rector of Universitas Andalas. 

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During the meeting, all of the delegations actively participated in the discussions. They shared about their business ideas and how did they get the ideas from. After that, all of the participants also had a chance to introduce their products or business ideas to the expert from European partners and get good feedbacks from them. The next day, all of the participants were invited to attend the official opening of UNAND Co-Working Space. It was opened by Lisa Mahajan and Vice-Rector of Universitas Andalas. In the end, all of the participants were glad about their discussion and sharing session with the experts and mentors. Next, It is expected that all of the Business Plan Competition Winners can start their business ideas to become a sociopreneur and helping the community.