AEGEE-Cagliari opens its doors to all (members or not) to engage in the business world with Job Start Up. This seminar organised by AEGEE-Cagliari in collaboration with the University of Cagliari and E.R.S.U. Studies Cagliari has become a full immersion of two intense days, rich of entertainment and learning. A workshop that had the objective to offer the participants a brief but comprehensive overview of what is the new way of entrepreneurship, which is having success now more than ever.
This idea of “Profession Start Up” was founded in 2015 by the desire of the board of AEGEE-Cagliari to offer alternative methods of employing the young, and a new perspective for those who want to create their own business and realise their own ideas and do not know where to start. The questions from which we started were in fact: how can you start a start up? How should you act?
During the first day, purely theoretical, several experts in the field and consultants have explained the basics of the startup world. Starting from the internal mechanisms such as working stages, the research of the team members, the search for funding for the startup, the importance of leadership in the team, the relationship between various colleagues etc.
During the second day, on March 18th, the participants took part in a workshop in which all the skills learned on the previous day were put into practice, also taking personal skills into account. As industry experts, the association invited various brands and prominent experts who are very successful in this new world of Start Up, not only in Sardinia, but also in the rest of the world. Engaging and highly trained professionals have been able to better illustrate the working reality and shape the future with their own ideas.
Among these, to name a few, are: Giorgio Pisano, founder of Target School, makers of Sardex, Alessandro Vagnozzi, Chairman of Sardinia Confindustria Young Entrepreneurs Group, founder of J-service srl; Nicola Siza, business designers, for startup consultant Apply and director of Hub / Spoke; Alice Soru, founder and head of Open Campus, Alessandro Orgiana founder YOUSARDINIA, Mirko Podda and Alberto Unali, participants of the last edition of Lab Contamination Cagliari and founders of startups BXTAR, Maurizio Battelli, CEO of LYNX Srl etc.
A student of University of Cagliari, Sara, who was asked about her experience and impressions as a participant in this workshop in March, said: “It was the first time I participated in a seminar of this kind and I must say that this experience has far exceeded my expectations, especially with regard to self-interest for the startup world that was born after this seminar. […] In these two days I learnt more than I expected. I would gladly have this experience again and I would recommend it to everyone, even to those who at first glance, do not think they would be interested in entrepreneurship. I would love if a “second level” of this seminar was organised, so we can learn even more! “
Written by Laura Pace, AEGEE-Cagliari