Winter school SUMIT starts accepting applications

Accepting applications for the winter session of SUMIT’s program, which will take place from February, 3 to March, 15 in St. Petersburg, started. SUMIT is an international start-up school which unites best teams from different countries and helps them to make their business models during intensive educational and mentoring programs.

SUMIT lasts six weeks. The teams receive fully equipped coworking for the whole period; during the day they are working on their project, communicate with mentors and experts, and attend educational lectures in the evening. The course includes 5 basic departments, corresponding to the main directions of a start-up project development: market research and choice of product’s strategy, team building, choosing the business model, practice in projects management, presentation skills and communication with investors.

All communication is in English during the last two weeks.

There are several options for participation in SUMIT this time:
- As a student of the educational program;
- Complete work on the launch of the project in the coworking space with mentoring support and expert advice.

SUMIT ends with investment meeting for the teams to present their projects to investors.

The accepting of applications is open till December 1, 2012.