83 teams, from 43 universities and 14 countries competed on May 10th for the second edition of the Morpheus Cup, held in Luxembourg, in parallel of ICT Spring Europe 2016. Organized to solve the shortage and need for young talents in Europe, as announced by the European Commission, the competition saw team "Homelife" from HEC Paris win the trophy, in front of a jury of seasoned and international professionals.
83 teams, from 43 universities and 14 countries competed on May 10th for the second edition of the Morpheus Cup, held in Luxembourg, in parallel of ICT Spring Europe 2016. Organized to solve the shortage and need for young talents in Europe, as announced by the European Commission, the competition saw team "Homelife" from HEC Paris win the trophy, in front of a jury of seasoned and international professionals.
After scoring 450 out of 500 points in the morning challenges, and winning the FinTech challenge, sponsored by ING Luxembourg, Homelife, composed of Olivier Fournier, Stéphane Vukovic and Hélène Gautier, was awarded the MorpheusCup 2016 trophy, succeeding to the members of Team Goodwill from Warsaw School of Economics, the first ever winners of the European universities and graduate schools championship. Teams Ping, from the University of Luxembourg, and LYR, from Telecom Nancy respectively took the second and third places. The morning session was introduced by Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and included some specific challenges designed by Chanda Gonzales, Senior Director at Google Lunar XPRIZE and Taïg Khris, three times world ramp skating champion. Students also imagined their ideal workplace and participated in a Tweet contest (regarding to gender equality).
Tailored challenges, with the support of the government and local actors
For its second edition, Luxembourgish companies joined the organizers in the creation of specific challenges to test the creativity and knowledge of the European students. Placed under the high patronage of the European Commission and Luxembourg's Ministry for Equal Opportunities, the Morpheus Cup saw challenges and projects created by ING Luxembourg (on the topic of FinTech), Deloitte Luxembourg (Coding), Tageblatt Lëtzebuerg (Business), NPG Wealth Management (Design), Telindus (Security), Cargolux Airlines International (Logistics), Vodafone (Procurement), Foundation Europeana (Smart Culture) and Lombard International Assurance (Wealth Management). Other sponsors and partners of the event were DuPont de Nemours Luxembourg, C-Services, Randstad Luxembourg, RTL Group, Temenos Luxembourg and Leopard Natural Power Drink.
Find below the list of the best performing teams:
The Best Project Awards and the Special Jury Prize
Prior to the event, students had to submit their projects to the organizers, on the topics of Healthcare, Engineering, Mobility, Procurement, Wealth Management and much more. On the day of the event, the winners of each category pitched their projects to the jury composed of renowned professionals. The Special Jury Prize was awarded to Homelife. The team form HEC Paris worked on a Healthcare project aiming at monitoring health data to lung transplant patients: "our solution provides patients with a connected device which takes all the necessary measurements and reports the data to the doctor through a platform" added the members of team Homelife.
Ping, from the University of Luxembourg and TempEmp, from EU Business School Barcelona were also rewarded for their projects on Education and InsurTech. Jury members were impressed by the quality of the projects submitted by the European students and delighted to be part of the second edition of the Morpheus Cup.
Find below the list of the winning teams for each project:
Jean-Jacques Dordain, former ESA Director, also a member of the jury shared with the audience of the Space Forum (which took place in parallel of the competition) his pleasure to have young talents perform in the competition at such a high level, mixing, notably the space and digital environments. Other jury members were Jelena Djokovic (National Director, Novak Djokovic Foundation), Olivier Schaack (Creative Director, Canal +), Vaclav Smil (Distinguished Professor Emeritus and one of Bill Gates' favorite authors), Andrew Barton and Chanda Gonzales (Google Lunar XPRIZE).
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