Yes, you may submit more than one idea or project to the competition.

Yes, you can submit the documents either in Italian or in English language.

The prizes of Stage I of the competition consist of services:

1) Free support and consulting activities, aimed at supporting the entrepreneurial team in the development of the Business Plan, provided by the competition's organising incubators through experts.

2) Consultancy services on 5G aimed at feasibility studies to assess the potential added value of 5G connectivity, provided by the City of Turin's CTE NEXT project.

It will also be possible to take advantage, by indicating the preference when registering for Stage I of one's business idea, of the free orientation and accompaniment services provided by experts from Invitalia, Official Partner of the Italian National Innovation Award, aimed at the submission of applications for subsidies on the agency's various incentives.

An e-mail communication on the outcome of Stage I will be sent to all applicants. Applicants selected by the organisers to benefit from the mentoring activities referred to in point 3 will also be contacted individually.

Everyone can still apply for Stage II, even those who were not selected in Stage I, by preparing their own Business Plan to apply autonomously, by consulting the document preparation methods and the short summary example available on the page "How to apply" of this website.

The evaluation process for the definition of the best finalist projects is managed by a jury, which evaluates them in different steps starting from the closing of Stage II until October.

Towards the end of September, we will send the team the positive or negative outcome of the first evaluation step. No ranking or individual judging will be published. In case of a positive outcome, we will provide indications on the next selection steps.

The final results will be made public during the award ceremony in November that concludes the competition. Further details will be provided in the News section of the site, and to keep up to date you can subscribe to the competition's free newsletter (see the bottom of this page).

The competition is only open to owners of companies whose date of incorporation is after October 1^st, 2023, or from January to September 2023 but with a declaration of commencement of business (as per the date of commencement of operations specified in the Italian Chamber of Commerce certificate) on or after October 1^st, 2023.

Yes, the evaluation parameters are the same.