A total of 27 teams from 18 countries competed, presenting in 4 categories: (1) Deep tech (IoT, AI, Data, Blockchain), (2) Education, Transportation & Mobility, Housing, (3) Food, Energy & Environment, AgriTech, and (4) Social/Impact, Health.
FON students Andjela Kanjo and Filip Oketic presented their startup Moveably in the category of Education, Transportation & Mobility, Housing, winning the first prize from the Croatian unicorn company Infobip worth 7,500€, as well as the third place from the jury with financial support worth 500€.
This international competition was organized as part of the Erasmus+ BIP program under the title “Development of digital and green business models”, which took place from May 21 to June 18 in an online format and from June 17 to 21 in Split. During the first three days of the program, as support for students in developing their business ideas, six lectures were held covering the following topics: Validating business idea, Business modelling, Marketing strategy, Sales, How to make a Pitch deck & Presentation skills, and Mentorship (Pitch deck creation). Ana Miličević, the coordinator of the Research and Development Centre of the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, provided the support to the team at the competition in Split. She represented FON at the STup! competition and participated in the panel “The role of Universities in supporting local startup ecosystems”. Prior to competition on June 11, she facilitated an online workshop on the topic: “Design thinking – from problem discovery to ideation process”.
The BIP program involved students from 12 universities: Kiel University and Hochschule der Medien, Germany, HAN University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, France, The Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic, Universitas Trenchiniensis, Slovakia, ESIC University and Universidad de Malaga, Spain, University of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, University of Split and University of Zagreb, Croatia, and University of Belgrade – Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Serbia.
The business idea of Moveably began when Andjela Kanjo and Filip Oketić, then high school students in Mladenovac and members of a student company team, proposed the development of an application aimed at facilitating the moving process, significantly easing the transportation of items that need to relocated. After entering the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, they joined the “Route2Launch” startup mentoring program where they, along with their mentors from the Faculty – Prof. Dr. Slađana Barjaktarović Rakočević, Prof. Dr. Sanja Marinković, and Assistant Jelica Stanojević – developed their startup business model. From the beginning of their entrepreneurial journey in high school to joining the “Route2Launch” program in their first year at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, the Moveably team developed an application that connects transport providers with their clients. They are now planning to enter new markets, seeking opportunities to expand their business with the slogan: “Moving made easier with Moveably.” For more information about this startup, you can visit their website at Moveably.
„Route2Launch“ is a pre-incubation startup mentoring program designed for student teams from all universities, levels, and study years. The “Route2Launch” program guides student startup teams through a continuous and well-structured mentoring process over five months, during which they develop their startup business concept. The mentors in the program are university professors who have completed the “Expert2Mentors” training program. The “Route2Launch” startup mentoring program is part of the “Venture an Idea” project implemented by the Faculty of Organizational Sciences in collaboration with the Digital Serbia Initiative and other ecosystem partners, with support from USAID Serbia. For more information about the “Route2Launch” startup mentoring program, you can contact the Research and Development Centre at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences. Additionally, updates can be found on Instagram at @route2launch or via email at preduzmiideju@fon.bg.ac.rs
