{"id":4317,"date":"2016-05-17T10:54:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T09:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=4317"},"modified":"2016-05-17T10:54:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T09:54:22","slug":"kbs-student-selected-for-european-innovation-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2016\/05\/kbs-student-selected-for-european-innovation-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"KBS student selected for European Innovation Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Business School is proud to announce that BSc International Business student,\u00a0Brenda Okandju\u00a0has\u00a0been selected to take part in the <a href=\"http:\/\/inacademy.eu\/\">European Innovation Academy (EIA)<\/a> this Summer. The EIA that will take place in Nice, France, in July, is a 15-day programme of entrepreneurship education which gives \u2018every participant the opportunity to be immersed in the extreme international start-up environment\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Brenda Okandju\u2019s selection follows her recent success as a\u00a0finalist of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/business\/start-up\/journey.html\">KBS Business Start-Up Journey<\/a>, where she\u00a0successfully pitched to a panel of entrepreneurs and Business School Directors, winning a financial support prize for her start-up idea.<\/p>\n<p>As she shares:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a finalist of the BSUJ, this is a great chance to network with like-minded people and be in the midst of technical experts from the famous technology cluster \u2013 Silicon Valley. This is an incredible opportunity that I cannot take for granted!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>For more information, contact ASPIRE Project Officer, Jack McDonnell on 01227 816492 or <a href=\"mailto:jm773@kent.ac.uk\">jm773@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Business School is proud to announce that BSc International Business student,\u00a0Brenda Okandju\u00a0has\u00a0been selected to take part in the European Innovation Academy (EIA) this Summer. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2016\/05\/kbs-student-selected-for-european-innovation-academy\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40044,"featured_media":4319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9890,124,19112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4322,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions\/4322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}