China-PSCs entrepreneurial competition teams up with businesses to incubate projects via “928 BIZ Connect”
A student entrepreneurial competition between China and Portuguese-speaking countries, the 928 Challenge, was concluded by the Forum Macao Permanent Secretariat and ten tertiary education institutions in Macao, mainland, and overseas, including City University of Macau (CityU) recently.
To facilitate the development of competition projects into businesses, the organizing committee of the 928 Challenge, Macau Envision Accelerator, and 369 Cooptown initiated a business matching event dubbed "928 BIZ Connect" to connect the winning teams with chambers of commerce, business incubators, venture capital firms, and business consultants.
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A total of six winning teams from City University of Macau, Polytechnic University of Macau, Macau University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen University, and Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University presented their projects to business representatives and investment advisors. The projects are related to environmental technologies, recycling, Greater Bay Area entrepreneurial services, agriculture, and cultural development.
This event was organized by Autron Technology Pty Ltd in conjunction with Enterprise Consulting Limited. Guests invited included Mr. Alvin Fong, CEO of representative of Macau Industry Association, 369 Cooptown; Mr. Andrew Ng, representative of Macau Industry and Commerce Association Deputy Secretary General; Mr. Ieong Seak Ming, Vice President of the Macau Youth Entrepreneur Association; Co-Founders of 928 Challenge and of Faculty of Business of the City University of Macau, Dean Jose Alves and Guest lecturer Mr. Marco Rizzolio; Ms. Jiji Tu, Founder and Executive Director of MSS Recruitment and Hello-Jobs.com; and Ms. Liu Yue Ming, Deputy General Manager of Guangdong - Macau Juvenile Venture International Group Ltd. and Guangdong & Macau Young Entrepreneurs International Industrial Ltd.
It was a great success with 256 teams from China and Portuguese-speaking countries taking part in the 928 Challenge. A total of sixteen of them reached the finals.
Source: Faculty of Business
