After winning the national finals, Freshy.io last month participated in the JA Europe Enterprise Challenge in Bucharest. Freshy.io is a fledgling business venture created thanks to the Junior Achievement Young Enterprise Malta Foundation (JAYE Malta) Start-Up Programme.

Over 90 students were competing in the European finale after participating in a year-long Start-Up Programme and qualifying at their respective national level. A JA Europe initiative, the Start-Up Programme annually engages over 14,000 university students from 300 universities across Europe, giving them the opportunity to experience starting up a business from top to bottom.

Freshy.io is a company made up of four University of Malta students who developed an application through which cafeterias and restaurants can sell excess fresh, made-daily food. Users on the other hand are able to get notified about these nearby discounted offers by means of a high-tech push notification interface. The team representing Malta was made up of Anatoliy Gatt, Svetlana Mitrakhovich, Valeria Lobanova and Gleb Eliseev, the latter being recognised with an Alumni Leadership Award. Freshy.io will launch their company and services later this year.

Save Energy, a team from Romania, won the overall award for best enterprise. The team was chosen based on its innovative idea and strong business potential, which offers a solution to save energy consumed unnecessarily by means of a smart socket. By using an 8-bit micro-processor, the smart socket will disconnect a device from the power source within 10 minutes after this is in off-mode, thus saving energy consumed unnecessarily.

The JAYE Malta Start-Up Programme supports European goals of improving youth employability and contributes to the local start-up ecosystem by creating essential opportunities and fostering key competences necessary for success after university.

For more information or to participate in the Start-Up Programme, contact Lara Gail Dougall on info@youngenterprise.org.mt or 2124 4991.

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