Start-Up Competition

We are happy to announce that on Wednesday the 21^st of May 2025 a Social Enterprises Start-up competition took place in our school, where Grade 11 Business Management students presented their start-up ideas on which they were working during the whole academic year.

The students presented their ideas in the ISA theatre to a panel of experts consisting of three experienced executives:

• Mrs Rineta Mitsi (MSc Public relations), the Group Corporate Affairs & Sustainability Director at Goody’s – Everest Group.

• Mrs Ruzanna Safaryan, whose main focus is consulting sustainable businesses and helping launch impact startups. 

• Mr Nick Philippopoulos (BSc Marketing, MSc International Management), the founder of Synklisi, a firm helping deep-tech startups move from the lab to their first revenue—while also developing and offering AI-based solutions to market.

The students that won the 1^st place are, Antigoni Visviki, Elena Michelaki, Lenio Bitsopoulou, Maida Palantzian, with “Plateful”, scoring 65.5/75.

The 2^nd place award was won by Eleni Kouris, Elona Simitzis, with “boxED”, scoring 63/75.

Finally, the 3^rd place award was won by two teams, Andrey Marmalidi, Konstantinos Adamopoulos, Nicolas B.N. Abueid, Vasil Atanaschikov with “Creamer Deluxe” and Davud Mehdi, Eren Düzdaş, Evgenios Misailidis, with “Rinova”, scoring 61/75.

Special awards for Research, Impact and Creativity were granted to: