UG/CF student Alice Haywood wins Enterprijs 2024 with start-up Autimelody
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Alice Haywood developed the app Autimelody that supports communication with people who face difficulties understanding language because of their disabilities, while they often do understand music. With her start-up, she won the Enterprijs 2024.
For student Global Responsibility & Leadership Alice Haywood, developing the app Autimelody is an answer to enabling communication with her sister. She signed up for the Enterprijs competition and got nominated by UG/CF for the finals, which she gloriously won.
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Leeuwarden alderman and Enterprijs jury Abel Reitsma praised the social impact of Autimelody and the young entrepreneur's heartwarming motivation. The Enterprijs is an award for the best idea of a Frisian student entrepreneur and consists of 5,000 euros in start-up capital and one year of guidance from Inqubator in Leeuwarden.
Alice Haywood says: ‘I am thrilled to have been given the opportunity to participate low and behold winning the Enterprijs! I really believe in Autimelody and can’t wait to see how it develops with the help of the incubator as well as the financial support.’ And about the finale: ‘I was so happy to have familiar faces from the campus to support me during my pitch as well as calming my nerves beforehand!’
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Last modified: | 19 June 2024 1.40 p.m. |
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