About
The Cyprus Entrepreneurship Competition is a business plan competition that aspires to nurture an entrepreneurial culture among - scientists, startup founders, and hi-tech entrepreneurs, and challenge them to transform their ideas into real business opportunities and to the leading companies of tomorrow.
CyEC welcomes business plans emerging out of some innovative technology, process, business model, or other innovations that have the potential to be developed into start-ventures or social enterprises and yet create significant competitive advantage as compared to existing solutions.

Meet The Winners
Latest News

The CyEC 2020 Award Ceremony
The Cyprus Entrepreneurship Competition 2020 Award ceremony and pitching presentations of the Finalists will take place on Friday December 18 at 14:00 under the 5th Innovation...

First Networking Event
The first Cyprus Entrepreneurship Competition 2020 networking event took place on Friday October 23rd at the University of Cyprus with the participation of CyEC 2020 stakeholders...

Stage 1 Results
The CyEC2020 panel of judges successfully completed the evaluation of the applications submitted by teams from Cyprus and abroad under the Cyprus Entrepreneurship Competition 2020 program...
Awards
1st Prize
€10,000
2nd Prize
€6,000
3rd Prize
€4,000
Other Awards
- Hosting in KAYAK facilities in Cambridge, Massachussets or Berlin, Germany, for 1-3 months
- Hosting in RISE - Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies facilities, for 6-12 months
- Hosting in Navigator Consulting for up to 6 months in Limassol, including mentoring and business development support
- Participating teams at the business acceleration program will have the opportunity to be selected to join directly the 6th cycle of IDEA Incubator - Accelerator
- The 3 winners of CyEC2020 will pitch their business plan to CYBAN members, in a specially organised CYBAN Company Presentations Event
More awards will be announced soon
Judges
Mentors

Anastasia Constantinou
Head of Innovation Management Unit, Research Support Service at University of Cyprus

Demetrios Eliades
Research Assistant Professor, KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence, University of Cyprus