Lund University Master Your Idea Challenge 2010 Announced the winners!
During the month of competition, Master Your Idea Challenge 2010 received applications from over 30 countries in all continents! Congratulations to all the finalists and two grand prize winners: Vivek from SASTRA University, India and Yichen Guo from Changchun University of Science and Technology, China.
First Prize (conditional full tuition waiver)
Vivek Nair Sahadevan – SASTRA University, India
A Unique Solution to Stop Climate Change
Jury’s motivation:
Vivek Nair presents an idea that has high potential and excellent sustainability. This is coupled with a very strong competence background, good English; excellent letters of recommendation and interesting extracurricular activities makes us confident that Vivek Nair’s profile fits the masters programme in entrepreneurship at Lund University.
Second Prize (conditional A 50% tuition waiver)
Yichen Guo – Changchun University of Science and Technology, China
Brandy’s Eldercare Company
Jury’s motivation:
Yichen Guo has identified a high potential, underserviced and high growth market. She plans to serve this market with state of the art digital technology. The strong technical background and prior entrepreneurial experiences makes her idea both feasible and desirable. We believe that she is well suited to study with us at the masters programme in entrepreneurship at Lund University.
3rd – 10th Prize (conditional admission)
Nicole Zeng – Shantou University of China, China
Landy Lin – Shantou University of China, China
Oscar Villafana – Universidad Tecnologica de Mexico, Mexico
Devan Leibowitz – Monash University, Australia
Daniel Yu – Renmin Univercity of China, China
Farooq Aorangz – AIOU, Pakistan
Ibrahim Aljabour – Al-Azhar University, Egypt
Johannes Frieß – IMK Wiesbaden, Germany
Honorable mention (conditional admission)
Tommy Wijaya Budiman - STMIK Pelita Nusantara, Indonesia
*Note:
To be accepted to Swedish universities, one has to pass two screening processes:
1) General screening by Studera including degree and language checking.
2) Specific screening by each university (Lund).
*Conditional means winners could claim the prize under the condition of passing Studera’s screening process.
