WEA Final Ceremony 2021

CATÓLICA-LISBON is organising the WEA Final Ceremony 2021 on June 16 at 5.45 p.m.

The Católica-Lisbon Center for Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CTIE) is promoting the 3rd edition of the Women Entrepreneurship Award. This award aims to recognize the work of women entrepreneurs in order to incentivize more women to launch their own business. The winner of the 2019 edition was Joana Rafael from Sensei and in 2020, Marta Palmeiro from StudentFinance.

This year after receiving more than 58 applications, the jury selected, the 3 following finalists:

• Joana Paiva (Ilof)
• Louise Lindblad (Valispace)
• Sonia Ferreira (Besthealth4U)

The 3 finalists will pitch their project in front of the jury and the winner of the 2021 edition will receive a monetary prize of 3000€, a scholarship for the Advanced Program in Entrepreneurship in Innovation - PAEGI or any other equivalent program at Católica-Lisbon School of Business & Economics and, mentorship from one of the jury members.

Jury members:

• António Murta (Pathena)
• Celine Abecassis-Moedas (Católica-Lisbon)
• Cristina Fonseca (Indico Capital)
• Isabel Capeloa Gil (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
• Isabel Furtado (COTEC)
• João Vieira de Almeida (VdA)
• Lucy Gilson (Universidade do Connecticut)
• Maria Lacerda (Imagegate)
• Miguel Fontes (Startup Lisboa)
• Paulo Azevedo (Sonae)
• Pedro Norton (Gulbenkian).             

Watch the conference live on the CATÓLICA-LISBON Facebook page.