The initiative aims to highlight the contributions of students in entrepreneurship and innovation. Out of 30 research submissions, eight doctoral theses, 12 TFGs, and 2 TFMs received awards. Evaluation criteria included innovation, creativity, viability, growth potential, impact, and the presence of a work plan and video.
In the doctoral thesis category, five first prizes (1200 euros each) and three second prizes (600 euros each) were presented. The highest-scoring work was 'CircularTex Solutions' by Oscar Martínez Rico (engineering), focused on valorizing textile waste. In the scientific field, Beatriz Rodríguez Martínez's work on potato peel valorization was recognized, and in arts and humanities, a thesis on decentralized machine learning models for sustainable mining was awarded.
The TFG and TFM awards recognized projects with a strong presence of social media and artificial intelligence. Six first prizes (800 euros each), six second prizes (400 euros each), and two third prizes (200 euros each) were granted. The top-scoring TFG was ‘Es Automático’ by Rubén Ballesteros (Social and Legal Sciences), focusing on design, communication, and social media strategy for an AI automation services brand.
Other recognized TFGs include Minerva García Fombuena's project on the 'Digital Twin of Competencies' for public administrations, and Daniela Sanz Toucedo's (engineering) TFG on a performance monitoring system for padel using inertial and biometric sensors, named 'Padel Analytics'.
For TFMs, the first prize went to Diego Costas Moyano for developing an unsupervised clustering tool for the energy analysis of public rental housing, and the second to Pablo Alonso González for a water quality management tool for eutrophized reservoirs.
