pau pavon is he best university entrepreneur in Spain 2023, according to the prestigious international GSEA awards (Global Students Entrepreneurs Awards). This 20-year-old student is part of the LEINN Degree at Mondragón University and TeamLabs in Barcelona.
Thus, will participate in the European final, which will be held in Istanbul (Turkey) from April 5 to 7. There he will opt for one of the places for the world final, which will take place in Cape Town (South Africa) in May.
Pau Pavón was the only one of the finalists who could not be there in person and intervened electronically in the final held on February 23 in Madrid. At the moment, pau is in India doing his learning journey (learning trip) with his team as part of the LEINN Degree program and, soon, he will continue this trip in Seoul (South Korea).
The winning project presented by Pau Pavón is examfy, a tool for teachers which allows them, thanks to optical character recognition and Artificial Intelligence, to speed up two of the most monotonous, repetitive and heavy tasks of the correction process: on the one hand, the registration and upload of grades, and, on the other, the preservation of exams.
Once they scan each exam with their mobile, Examfy analyzes and orders them by name and grade, and allows notes to be published or shared with students or their parents.. Examfy has already won different awards such as the European Wise 20 Under 20 for the best education startup in 2022.
Notably, of the six GSEA finalists, three belonged to the LEINN Grade from Mondragón University and TeamLabs, its radical learning laboratory in Barcelona, Madrid and Malaga. In addition to Pau Pavón, Otto Desmons, with the project Flyout, from LEINN Barcelona, and Nicolás Cañizares, with his project Papyro, from LEINN Madrid, were classified.
The Global Students Entrepreneurs Awards are the world’s largest competition for university entrepreneurs organized by the Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO), an international entity of entrepreneurs with more than 12,000 members worldwide. In this edition, there were two winners. In addition to Pau Pavon, was also awarded entrepreneur Álex Sánchez, from the Carlos III University of Madrid, for his Unigow project.
LEINN degree
Mondragón University is a benchmark in the area of entrepreneurship. One of its hallmarks in entrepreneurial education is the Official Degree in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation (LEINN)which is the first official European degree of entrepreneurship.
It has a methodology originally from Finland, with which the students must create a real company as a team from the first day, combining it with trips to different countries. With a 97% employabilitytrains them to acquire a learning mentality that prepares them to face uncertainty successfully, naturally and without fear.
At the moment, After more than 14 years since the LEINN Degree began, the University of Mondragón has an international community made up of more than 3,000 entrepreneurs (of whom more than a third are women), with more than 120 equipment companies Created at LEINN and laboratories in Irún, Oñate, Bilbao, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Malaga, Berlin (Germany), Puebla (Mexico), Seoul (South Korea) and Shanghai (China).
