Start-upper School Academy

The birth of new SMEs is essential for creating jobs and the training certainly contributes to create innovative start-ups and generate wealth. On behalf of Lazio Region, the Regional Agency on Innovation named Lazio Innova has launched the Start-upper School Academy Program to promote entrepreneurship and creativity in the schools of Lazio, in order to increase the knowledge and stimulate the propensity to do business among the students of the Secondary Higher Education Institutes. The Start-upper School Academy Program for the promotion of entrepreneurship in schools aims at stimulating the propensity to do business in III, IV and V classes of the secondary schools of Lazio. It consists of a number of actions designed in collaboration with the Fab Lab Lazio Regional network and with strategic partners associated with the Active Space ecosystem, which operate in the education sector, entrepreneurial training and are active in the dissemination actions of new technologies. In the various Competition, diverse Stakeholders are involved and selected on the base of the specializations of the actions. (e.g. Human Foundation social innovation, Social Car Mobility and Transport). Finally, the beneficiaries of this activity are the students of the Institutes of Higher Secondary Education.