U-SOLVE in Palestine announced its final 5 winners who will receive the project subgrant for launching and supporting their businesses. After a journey of over year and half of evaluating the needs of the Palestinian ecosystem, scouting for creative ventures, training and coaching the entrepreneurs, the journey is finally crowned with the launch of 5 successful startup to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Palestine.
The selection of the subgrantees was based on a long process of evaluation which included three steps in the U-SOLVE project overall and 4 step in Palestine in particular. In the Pre-selection phase, PAU attracted over 203 applications, 45 startups were accepted in Step 1, from which 28 were accepted from Step 2, from which 11 were qualified to pitch their idea in Step 3 as part of the U-SOLVE pitching day where they were evaluated by a committee of the project team and external experts to lead to the selection of the final 5 winners.
Each of the winning teams will receive a grant of €10,000 through the U-SOLVE project and will have the opportunity to further develop their solutions and make an impact.