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23.01.2009

Y2i Youth 2 Innovation contest is a competition of innovative ideas and plans in business and in business incubation. 

The contest is conducted in the following three categories:

1. Young incubatees innovation (tenants of business incubators),
2. young business innovation (young entrepreneurs), 
3. young business incubator innovation (incubators staff members). 

The participation in the contest does not only give you the chance to receive an expert review of your business or business incubation idea. It offers you the unique opportunity to win a participation in infoDev’s 3rd Global Forum on Business Incubation in Brasilia, Brazil in May 2009.  

Eligibility criteria:

1. By the time of the deadline of the application, you are older than 17 and younger than 31 years. If you are a team, the team members shall be in this age group. 
2. You are an active entrepreneur or plan to become one. You participate in an incubation program or plan to participate. You might also work at a business incubator. 
3. You live and work/study in Central and Eastern Europe or in Central Asia. 

Y2i contest is organized by ECAbit Eastern European and Central Asian business incubators network.
It is supported by the infoDev information for development program, hosted by the World Bank (www.infoDev.org).

Project coordinator is Dr. Radu Big, CDIMM Maramures, Romania (www.cdimm.org). 

You will be requested to register your participation by January 30, 2009 by sending e-mail to Dr. Radu Big [email protected].

Deadline for your application will be February 28, 2009. 

For more details and Application forms, please visit  www.ecabit.org webiste.