The students of “Tiberiu Popoviciu” High School win the grand prize of the Cluj county semifinal of the business plan competition “Marathon for Entrepreneurial Education”

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The students of the “Tiberiu Popoviciu” High School of Informatics won the grand prize of the Cluj county semifinal of the “Marathon for Entrepreneurial Education” business plan competition, informs the National Confederation of Women’s Entrepreneurship (CONAF), the organizer of the event.

The team of “Tiberiu Popoviciu” High School won the first prize at the Cluj county stage “Marathon for Entrepreneurial Education”/Photo: “Tiberiu Popoviciu” High School of Informatics Cluj-Napoca Facebook.com

The students coordinated by teacher Florentina Rusa presented the “TransiTech” project, which involves the creation of an application that allows the digitalization of tickets and subscriptions for public transport.

The “Volunteer Now” project, created by the students of the “Emil Racoviţă” National College, who had Rareş Damian as their coordinating teacher, took second place. The project consists in creating an intuitive application that facilitates the participation of young people in volunteer activities and helps both non-governmental organizations and companies to find volunteers.

The third place went to the “Mak Performance Tuning” project, which involves the establishment of a car service, which has a dedicated application to allow customers to see their car in real time being serviced. The project is carried out by the team of the IT High School “Tiberiu Popoviciu” together with the coordinating teacher Florentina Rusa.

The three finalist teams were rewarded with cash prizes. The first-place team received a prize of 3,000 lei, the second-place team was awarded 2,000 lei, while the third-place team was rewarded with 1,000 lei. The finalist teams will participate in the grand final in Bucharest.

“The report published by the Investment Monetary Fund shows that almost 40% of existing jobs at the international level are exposed to artificial intelligence which, according to Goldman Sachs, could replace up to 300 million jobs by 2030, a phenomenon that it will affect approximately 25% of the workloads in the US and Europe, and even if we adults are scared, the high school students from Cluj have shown us that they can not only keep up with the change, but also master it. The foundation of this project is vocation and I like to believe that it is the duty of our generation to give confidence, strength, courage and above all tools to those who are in the education system today”, said Cristina Chirian, president of CONAF.

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The National Confederation of Women’s Entrepreneurship (CONAF) Cluj branch organized for the first time the county semi-final “Marathon for Entrepreneurial Education” – 2nd edition, business plan competition, part of the homonymous national program addressed to high school students and organized in partnership with the Ministry of Education, the University of West from Timisoara, the Financial Supervision Authority and the National Association of Entrepreneurs.

In the county stage, organized in partnership with the Cluj County Inspectorate, Cluj Napoca City Hall, Cluj County Council and Babeş Bolyai University (UBB), the best business plans presented by the 8 teams made up of 37 high school students from 4 high schools: “Tiberiu Popoviciu” High School of Informatics, “Emil Racoviţă” High School, “Gheorghe Şinca” High School and “Onisifor Ghibu” High School.

This year the program will take place in over 20 counties, and the final will be organized in May, in Bucharest

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