La Sapienza has been selected to host an on campus edition of the Hult Prize, the largest students movement to create a start-up at hight social impact, social business and business for-good. the annual Hult Prize gives one million dollars in start-up capital to the students team with the more revolutionary and innovative idea, developed to solve more social challenges in different parts of the world.

In collaboration with the United Nations, the Hult Prize hosts at the same time universitary events everywhere in the world, while searching for the next world changing start-up. Jasmine Mohsin, Campus Director Hult Prize Sapienza 2019, will lead the Hult Prize OnCampus event at Sapienza University.

This year's theme is Youth Unemployment.

Every student will make a team between 3 and 4 participants, together with whom will develope an idea to solve the 2019 Unites Nations Case Challenge. The winning team of the on-campus event will be admitted to one of the 15 regional competitions i different cities in the world. After that, with the WildCard opportunity the team will can access the Hult Prize summer summit, located in the famous Castle of Ashridge (home of the famous Harry Potter films). In the latter the teams will receive advice, strategy and planning on the world of startups from international mentors while they will create prototypes and set-ups to launch their new social business. Finally, the last round of the competition will be hosted in September 2019 at the United Nations headquarters in New York, where the winning team will receive the grand prize of $ 1,000,000.

The steps for the competition are illustrated in this infographic

Hult Prize Infographic (pdf)

The Call is now open for both volounteers who want to help organizing/assist the event and the teams interested in the competition!

The call is open for Sapienza students enrolled in any study programme (Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, PhDs).

Three meetings are planned to provide operational information to effectively process the projects and present them according to the standards established by Hult Prize.

The projects will be selected in December, on the final day.

The meetings will take place according to the following schedule (hall to be defined):

• Tuesday Nov 13 from 15:00 to 18:00
• Wednesday Nov 21 from 15:00 to 18:00
• Wednesday Nov 28 from 15:00 to 18:00
• Friday Dec 14 from 10:00 to 17:00

Hult Prize is the world's largest engine for launching for-good, for-profit  startups, emerging from the university with over 2500 employees and volunteers worldwide. In nearly a decade, the movement has distributed over $ 50 million in capital to the industry and mobilized over one million young people to rethink the business's future while continuing to generate disruptive ideas on college campuses in over 150 countries. The Hult Prize Foundation was named the "Nobel Prize for Students" and was included in a TIME Magazine article among the "5 revolutionary ideas that are changing the world".

"The Hult Award is a wonderful example of the creative cooperation needed to build a world with shared opportunities, responsibilities and prosperity, and every year I look forward to seeing the many extraordinary ideas that the competition brings with it," said the former US president Bill Clinton.

Jasmine Mohsin (Campus Director Hult Prize Sapienza)
mohsin.1492407@studenti.uniroma1.it
cell. 3274043283
Hult Prize Offical Page for Sapienza
www.hultprizeat.com/sapienza
https://www.facebook.com/hultprizesapienza