Pau Pavón, entrepreneur of the LEINN degree at Mondragon Unibertsitatea, elected best university entrepreneur in Spain 2023 in the GSEA international awards
Pau Pavón, entrepreneur of the LEINN degree at Mondragon Unibertsitatea, elected best university entrepreneur in Spain 2023 in the GSEA international awards
Pau Pavón, entrepreneur of the LEINN degree at Mondragon Unibertsitatea, elected best university entrepreneur in Spain 2023 in the GSEA international awards
The Global Students Entrepreneurs Awards is the world's largest competition for university entrepreneurs organized by Entrepreneur's Organization (EO), an international entrepreneurship organization with more than 12,000 members worldwide
Pau Pavón, 20 years old, from Mondragon Unibertsitatea's LEINN (Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation) Degree at the TeamLabs laboratory in Barcelona, has been chosen the best university entrepreneur in Spain 2023 at the prestigious international GSEA (Global Students Entrepreneurs Awards). Thus, he will participate in the European final, to be held in Istanbul (Turkey) from April 5 to 7. There he will compete for one of the places for the world final, which will take place in Cape Town (South Africa) in May.
Pau Pavón was the only one of the finalists who could not be present in person and participated telematically in the final held on February 23 in Madrid. Pau is currently in India on his learning journey with his team as part of the LEINN Degree program and will continue this journey in Seoul (South Korea) in the near future.
The winning project presented by Pau Pavón is Examfy, a tool for teachers that allows them, thanks to optical character recognition and artificial intelligence, to speed up two of the most monotonous, repetitive and cumbersome tasks in the correction process: on the one hand, the recording and uploading of grades, and, on the other, the preservation of exams. Once you scan each exam with your cell phone, Examfy analyzes and sorts them by name and grade, and allows you to publish notes or share them with students or their parents. Examfy has already won different awards such as the European Wise 20 Under 20 for the best education startup in 2022.
It is worth noting that, of the six finalists of the GSEA, three belonged to the LEINN Degree of Mondragon Unibertsitatea and TeamLabs, its radical learning lab in Barcelona, Madrid and Malaga. In addition to Pau Pavón, Otto Desmons, with his project Flyout, from LEINN Barcelona; and Nicolás Cañizares, with his project Papyro, from LEINN Madrid, also qualified.
The Global Students Entrepreneurs Awards is the world's largest competition for university entrepreneurs organized by the Entrepreneur's Organization (EO), an international entrepreneurship organization with more than 12,000 members worldwide. In this edition, there were two winners, in addition to Pau Pavón, the entrepreneur Álex Sánchez from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and his project Unigow was also awarded.
LEINN degree, the first official degree dedicated to entrepreneurship at European level
Mondragon Unibertsitatea is a benchmark in the area of entrepreneurship. One of its hallmarks in entrepreneurial education is the Official Degree in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation (LEINN), which is the first official European degree in entrepreneurship. It has a methodology in which students must create a real company in a team from the first day, combined with trips to different countries. With a 97% employability rate, it trains them to acquire a learning mentality that prepares them to face uncertainty successfully, naturally and without fear.
Currently, after more than 14 years since the LEINN Degree began, Mondragon Unibertsitatea has an international community of more than 3,000 entrepreneurs (of which more than a third are women), with more than 120 team companies created in LEINN and laboratories in Irun, Oñati, Bilbao, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Malaga, Berlin (Germany), Puebla (Mexico), Seoul (South Korea) and Shanghai (China).