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UPES, through its School of Business in collaboration with the Runway Incubator, has launched the Future Founders Challenge 2025, a national-level entrepreneurship competition designed to inspire and empower students from Classes IX to XII. The university sources said that the initiative is aligned with UPES’s vision as the ‘University of Tomorrow’ and its commitment to nurturing a culture of innovation as a ‘Start-up University’ in tune with the objectives of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and Atal Innovation Mission.
UPES invites schools across India to nominate their most creative and entrepreneurial students for this initiative. The application window opened onAugust 14 and will close on September 28. Shortlisted teams will be announced onOctober 1followed by a series of online workshops on October 6, 11, and 15. Teams will then submit their final pitch decks by October 27 with the list of finalists to be released on October 31.
The chief executive officer, Runway Incubator, and senior director & head, School of Business, UPES, Rahul Nainwal said that through this platform, they aim to inspire the next generation of change-makers who might lead India and the world.
