The University of Seville has once again held its XVII Entrepreneurship Ideas Contest , organized by the Secretariat of Knowledge Transfer and Entrepreneurship of the US . This edition had a total of 635 participants; between students, graduates, PDI and PAS.

The first prize for the best initiative promoted by teaching and research staff , endowed with 6,000 euros allocated to the constitution or consolidation of the company, has gone to BioMixing, developed by the professor of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Fluid Mechanics based at the US Higher Technical School of Engineering, Javier Dávila Martín. This is a project on agitation technology in bioreactors to increase the productivity of a multitude of biotechnology and pharmacy processes.

The best initiative presented by students has been UAVisual Maintenance , a proposal by the students of the Master of Aeronautical Engineering of the ETS of Engineering of the US, Ricardo Jorge Dias Martins and Fernando Ramón Cid Vázquez. This proposal is based on the detection of cracks in the fuselage of aircraft using UAVs. As a reward, the team has received two scholarships to attend the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship Bootcamp at the University of California-Berkeley.

The Social Council of the University of Seville has also awarded two scholarships to attend the European Innovation Academy in Porto Respira project , due to its impact at a social level and its alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Specifically, the initiative, carried out by students, consists of a platform that studies the environmental situation of companies and offers personalized solutions through the use of artificial intelligence.

The Austral Venture prize , worth 3,000 euros, was presented by Jaime Ventura Escacena, partner and co-founder of Austral Venture Gestión SGEIC, and went again to Professor Dávila Martín's proposal, BioMixing .

In the final, held in the Assembly Hall of the Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences (FCEYE), the 20 candidates who have passed to this last phase participated, of which 12 were students and graduates, and 8 were PDI and PAS. Once again, it is worth highlighting the multidisciplinarity in relation to the areas of knowledge from which both the registered people and their proposals came. Of all of them, a total of 7 initiatives have received recognition (BioMixing, Letra x Letra, Smart Chair, UAVisual Maintenance, Agrosalud, DryFeet and Respira).

Felipe Rosa, vice-rector of Knowledge Transfer at the University of Seville, was in charge of presenting the awards during the final, together with the vice-dean of Research, Transfer and Entrepreneurship of the FCEYE, Francisco Liñán Alcalde; the vice president of the Social Council, Jesús Jiménez Cano; and the director of the Secretariat of Knowledge Transfer and Entrepreneurship, Catalina Gómez Quiles.

This activity has been carried out for seventeen years and is aimed at detecting entrepreneurial teams at the University of Seville that present innovative ideas , the result of the academic activity carried out at the institution. The ultimate objective is to promote the generation of Knowledge-Based Companies (EBC's) at the University of Seville.

The competition proposal involves a complete support process from the idea to the validated business model . During the development of the contest, the teams of entrepreneurs receive training and mentoring to promote the evolution of the business model of their idea and prepare it for public exhibition.