BE Challenge

It is a Five month Business Plan Training and Competition

•To engage the youth of the nation to think and propose new ideas as they see the future of coastal economies

•Connects these ideas to mentors and entrepreneurship

•To take them through a 5 month program for training on building awareness on opportunities in BE .

•Taking them through a 5 month program building business planning skills and writing a bullet proof business plan.

•To celebrate best ideas by helping them accelerate into potential success stories

Timeline: key Milestones

Preparation

Formation of Project Management Committees, Sponsorship, Event Management, and other committees.

Finalization thematic areas, awards criteria, and prize money

Website development and Social Media Activations

Establishing University centers for awareness campaigns

System training: how to use forms, templates and criterions.

Selecting Coordinators, Student volunteers, Judges, Trainers, Mentors, Graders and Domain Experts

ROUND 1

Announcement: Team Registration

Awareness Seminars at Major Universities

Marketing Webinars and Seminar – If required meetings at key cities

Formation of Joint Industry - Academia Teams

Registration of Ideas and teams

Preliminary Short Listing

Idea Selection

Up to a maximum of top 100 ideas will be short listed.

ROUND 2

Interviews of shortlisted teams

Workshop (2 day) On what makes a great BP

Followed by Short listing of ideas

Plan, Executive Summary, Presentation and Elevator Pitch

ES and EP Preparation and Submission

TRAINING AND SHORTLISTING, & MENTORING

Short listing based on ES and EP

Assignment of Mentors

Mentoring Session-1 1/1 Meetings with teams

Mentoring and Coaching

Preparation and submission of BP and DP

Mentoring Session-2 1/1 Meetings with teams

Preparation and submission of BP and DP

Short listing based on FBP and FDP

Simultaneous Development of Project and industrial beta testing

ROUND 3: TOP 10 SHORTLIST

Announcement of TOP 10 Teams

Mentoring for presentation skills

Finals & Exhibitions

Conference, exhibition and prize-winning ceremony

International Road Show and training for finalists for making them successes

Training Program

Preview

Winner Prizes

First prize

Rs. 1,000,000

2nd Runner Up

Rs. 300,000

Runner Up

Rs. 500,000

Honorable Mention

(10 Prizes)

Rs. 100,000 Each

Formation of Teams

-Maximum 4 to 5 members permitted in the team.

-One participant cannot be a part of more than one team.

-No change of team structure is permitted after the team is registered.

-One of the team members should be registered as Team Leader.

-The team must register on the link/website provided before: (date)

-All correspondences will be done through his/her email ID.

-Universities with maximum number of participation will get a special participation award.

Chief of the Naval Staff

Blue Economy Initiative

Nurturing the Triple Helix Players in Pakistan's Blue Economy