The 21st chapter of the Young Shoots Challenge concluded this Tuesday, March 21. It was the SANTINA project, a connected medical device for relieving menstrual pain and pain related to endometriosis, that won the prize.
The Young Shoots Challenge
Young Shoots is a student entrepreneurship competition on the French Riviera. Established in 2002, it welcomes more than a hundred students each year who wish to venture into business creation. Any student from the Riviera in their final year of higher education and recent graduate with the national Student-entrepreneur status interested in innovation, entrepreneurship, team challenges, as well as technologies can participate.
The student entrepreneurship competition kicked off on October 21, 2022, involving 50 students and 21 project teams.
The Jury Members
• Céline THOUVENIN, Créactive 06
• Laure GAJETTI, WHAT06
• Frédéric LEONARDI, Thales Alenia Space
• Nessim MECHTA, Orange
• Philippe SERVETTI, Fondation Sophia Antipolis
The Winning Project
It is the connected medical device “SANTINA” that won the Isabelle Attali Prize, thereby winning the 2022-2023 edition of the Young Shoots Challenge.
With its range of eco-friendly underwear containing electrodes to relieve menstrual pain or pain related to endometriosis, SANTINA aims to be a genuine non-drug alternative. This project stood out due to its universal and “user-friendly” usage, as well as its associated mobile application that controls the electrical intensity.
The SANTINA team, coached by Alan FERBACH (Videtics), is composed of:
• Benjamin MARCK, a Master’s student in Commercial Engineering at IAE of Nice
• Zoé WOOLDRIDGE and Juliette DUNAND, Master’s students in Design Innovation at Besign School
• Elise POLES, a double major student in Mathematics and Computer Science, and Public Law at the University of Nice Côte d’Azur
SANTINA thus wins smartwatches, €1,500 in gift vouchers, an additional €1,500 if they start the company, 3 months of accommodation offered by CréACannes, and 6 months of pre-incubation offered by the Provence Côte d’Azur Incubator.
The 3 Other Finalist Projects
A.I.T offers a continuous training service (powered by humans), whose user journey is managed by Artificial Intelligence previously trained and tested by humans, for personalized management and monitoring of learners.
ÉcoÉcho is developing an innovative solution for renewable energy production, embodied by a physical panel capable of capturing energy from sound and converting it into usable energy in our daily lives.
Smart Gym is an innovative model of “Space as a Service” micro-fitness rooms, bookable and usable in a customized way through a mobile application.
