The IDEENKANAL Liechtenstein is a national competition of ideas. 4 ideas within this competition were handed in by unili students, a unili alumnus and the wife of the rector. All of the ideas succeeded to qualify for the presentation evening and moreover, one team was chosen for getting a (financial) support by the mentors.
uni.li student Florian Büchel at the awards ceremony
Preliminary rounds
By the means of two preliminary rounds, 20 out of total 54 ideas submitted have been nominated for the presentation evening. By the first round, an online voting, ten ideas with the highest amount of votes have been automatically qualified. Unili students, a unili alumnus and the wife of the rector secured their participation at the presentation evening of IDEENKANAL Liechtenstein already at the very first step. During the three-day online voting, those ideas received about 40% of the 1,200 votes. In the second preliminary round, additional ten projects’ participants have been declared by a ten-member jury.
Presentation evening on the 6th of March 2015
The presentation evening took place on Friday the 6th of March, 2015 at the TAK Theater, where the IDEENKANAL Liechtenstein invited everyone interested in those 20 ideas nominated. The evening was divided into two rounds, the qualification and final round. During the qualifying, the nominated participants had to present their projects within one-minute pitches. Subsequently, the ten best ideas were selected by the mentors for the final round - among those the two projects of unili students. One project was introduced by the bachelor student Florian Büchel who wants to establish an "information platform for people seeking for apprenticeships". The other student is the master student Pidder Seidl with his idea “Waldoo" - a free and legal online video store.
During the last round the selected mentoring network had the opportunity to ask each of the ten idea givers questions for the time span of three minutes. By the end of the evening, five ideas had been selected. In the following these ideas will get further support of the mentors as well as a minimum start capital of 3,000 CHF. Besides a regional garden cooperation, a platform for more transparency of Liechtenstein’s politicians, an country wide organized network for bike rending, also Florian Büchel and his team were able to convince the mentors with their idea. With their online-based platform, they want to simplify the information gathering process for prospects apprentices by detailed job descriptions, employer reviews and testimonials.
Due to the additional live voting of the audience an extra idea has been chosen for receiving further support by the mentors.
What comes next?
The teams of the six funded ideas of 2015 will now work heavily on the projects’ implementation. On Saturday the 7th of March a first workshop was held. Hereby, the idea givers got more detailed feedback and suggestions from the mentors. On the 17th of March, the public also gets the opportunity to support the ideas financially. Therefore, a donation campaign for the projects will be detained.
Description of the four ideas and their positions in the online voting
1. Place of Painting for Everybody(157 votes)Andrea Näscher’s, a social pedagogue, vision is to create a place o f painting, where everybody is welcome to be creative. Mrs Näscher follows with her idea the concept of Arno Stern, a pedagogue and scientist from Germany. In his concept all people from 3 to 103 are coming together, at a certain place, to be creative with brushes and colours. Thereby, no judgment of the diverse play of colours is allowed. It shall help to express one’s opinions, dreams as well as experiences.
2. An information platform for apprentice(154 votes)Florian Büchel and his team have developed an online platform for young people to get informed about all possibilities available to do an apprenticeship. The aim of this platform is to offer prospective apprentice an opportunity to get first insight into local companies through short videos, testimonials and employer reviews. Additionally, companies have the possibility to present themselves.
3. Waldoo(94 votes)Pidder Seidl’s idea is Waldoo, the first and completely legal online video streaming site in the world. The goal of the team is to develop an alternative to the traditional television and the legal or fee-based streaming platforms (such as kinox.tv and Netflix). Together with his two founding members, Pidder Seidl have the vision to change the way classic TV works by giving to a users the opportunity to decide on their own which film or documentation they want to watch and at what time.
7. Peak Knowledge( 45 votes)The Peak Knowledge Association was founded by Manuel Beckman an alumnus of the University of Liechtenstein. This Club combines sport and charity events. On the one hand, Peak Knowledge stands for a wide range of sports events like climbing, hiking, running and several expeditions. On the other hand, they rise charity funds for children’s’ education, the empowerment of women and to prevent child labour. So far, the association was able to rise CHF 7.372. For example, the funds have been used to get some mountain equipment for carriers in Tanzania or to get some footballs for children in Nigeria.
For further information about the IDEENKANAL and the different ideas please follow the links below
We are looking forward to hear from the projects in the future and wish all the participants of the IDEENKANAL Liechtenstein good luck with their project realizations.