CyprusInno is an award-winning inter-communal social venture working towards building an island-wide entrepreneurial ecosystem in Cyprus via a hybrid platform of digital tools and live events while utilizing a novel method of entrepreneurship as a mechanism for peacebuilding. Our team engaged with entrepreneurs, academics, students, activists, innovators, policy makers, and others to discuss challenges facing all communities in Cyprus. As a driver of economic growth and job creation, entrepreneurship addresses these challenges while also helping bridge the gap between Cypriots on both sides of the island. Furthermore, Cyprus has the potential to serve as a model for peace and stability across the region through collaborative innovation. We focus on entrepreneurship as a mechanism that unifies, inspires, and leads to social and economic development and youth engagement. We target all innovators island-wide, with programs specifically focused on adolescents 14-17, youth 18-35, and female entrepreneurs.
CyprusInno was founded in 2016 by a mixed Cypriot team who created the largest platform connecting entrepreneurs across the island via digital tools and live events. The organisation digitized/united the ecosystem via its web platform with 3,000+ members, a startups map, a jobs board, a funding database, a mobile app for virtual networking, and an e-learning lab with free coursework, and later expanded to host live inter-communal trainings, mentorship programs, networking events, hackathons, panels, and pre-accelerators, including innovative youth-focused entrepreneurship programs. CyprusInno additionally contributes to policy regarding entrepreneurship, youth, peace, and security, on the EU and UN levels.
Today, CyprusInno operates a historic space located within the UN Buffer Zone, which it transformed from a military container into a Social Impact Generator™ which combines the elements of a coworking space, accelerator/incubator, innovation center, meeting/office space, and multimedia studio.
Aside from being an important driver of economic development, entrepreneurship is also an instrumental peace-building mechanism. Global peace through commerce can be achieved via accessible entrepreneurial capitalism, a key success factor for entrepreneurship that is lacking in many conflict regions.
* "CyprusInno" and "The Base by CyprusInno" are brands of BD-SS Way Forward for Cyprus Innovation.
2020 South Europe Startup Awards Regional Finalist - Best Coworking Space
2019 South Europe Startup Awards Regional Finalist - Best Social Impact Startup
2019 European Intercultural Innovation Award
2019 Social Startup of the Yunus & Youth Fellowship (Social Business Incubator Supported by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus)
2019 Harvard Social Enterprise Conference Showcase Startup
2018 European Youth Award Finalist – Digital Tools for Economy
2018 Stelios Cyprus Bi-Communal Award 2018 (Cyprus Peace Award presented by Sir Stelios Hadjiioannou, Founder of EasyJet)
CyprusInno was founded in 2016 by a mixed Cypriot team who created the largest platform connecting entrepreneurs across the island via digital tools and live events. The organisation digitized/united the ecosystem via its web platform with 3,000+ members, a startups map, a jobs board, a funding database, a mobile app for virtual networking, and an e-learning lab with free coursework, and later expanded to host live inter-communal trainings, mentorship programs, networking events, hackathons, panels, and pre-accelerators, including innovative youth-focused entrepreneurship programs. CyprusInno additionally contributes to policy regarding entrepreneurship, youth, peace, and security, on the EU and UN levels.
Today, CyprusInno operates a historic space located within the UN Buffer Zone, which it transformed from a military container into a Social Impact Generator™ which combines the elements of a coworking space, accelerator/incubator, innovation center, meeting/office space, and multimedia studio.
Aside from being an important driver of economic development, entrepreneurship is also an instrumental peace-building mechanism. Global peace through commerce can be achieved via accessible entrepreneurial capitalism, a key success factor for entrepreneurship that is lacking in many conflict regions.
* "CyprusInno" and "The Base by CyprusInno" are brands of BD-SS Way Forward for Cyprus Innovation.
2020 South Europe Startup Awards Regional Finalist - Best Coworking Space
2019 South Europe Startup Awards Regional Finalist - Best Social Impact Startup
2019 European Intercultural Innovation Award
2019 Social Startup of the Yunus & Youth Fellowship (Social Business Incubator Supported by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus)
2019 Harvard Social Enterprise Conference Showcase Startup
2018 European Youth Award Finalist – Digital Tools for Economy
2018 Stelios Cyprus Bi-Communal Award 2018 (Cyprus Peace Award presented by Sir Stelios Hadjiioannou, Founder of EasyJet)
Location: Cyprus, South Cyprus, Nicosia
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2016
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