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Exciting finals Who will go home a winner?

Tio students learn by doing and by practising creative thinking! During different projects completed in the span of nearly a year, the students have a chance to roll up their sleeves and come up with new business concepts. During the day-long final, the finalists in the various projects then compete for the ultimate victory. Which teams are able to convince the expert jury to win eternal fame – and a nice cheque?

Branding Project

First-year Commerce Economics and Entrepreneurship students can look back on an educational and enjoyable day. In the morning, the students are divided at random into ten groups. They are tasked with working together to come up with a product or service and a creative way to activate the brand. After this, it is time to deliver a pitch to the expert jury! The students are bubbling over with creative ideas – from toilets that generate electricity to machines that dispense beer automatically. In the end, group 3 wins the final round with their idea called ‘Smooth Skin’, a sustainable make-up remover and face oil in one!

1st prize “Smooth Skin” – sustainable make-up remover and facial oil tablet in one 2nd prize "Dydi" Dynamo Dixi – men's toilets where the urine stream generates energy by the means of a dynamo 3rd prize "Crhea Beer" – a colourful and summery beer brand focused on festival guests

Digital Student Company

Commerce Economics and Entrepreneurship students present their ideas during the all-day final! Their task is to convince the jury by means of an investor pitch – much like the TV programme Dragon’s Den. The final is filled with suspense, but ultimately the victory goes to Tio Hengelo for their idea ‘The Ultimate Card game’. 1st prize Ralph, Marel, Gijs, Louis and Kim-Lian (Tio Hengelo) for ‘The Ultimate Card Game’: different games combined into a single card game 2nd prize Sophie, Pim and Maxime (Tio Eindhoven) for ’SIPS’: a lid you can put over your glass to protect your drink. 3rd prize Lucci (Tio Amsterdam) for ’Chef You’: a platform where people can contact a home chef for a dinner.

Our product is truly the result of trial and error. But we were able to continuously motivate each other. Every member of our team has their own good qualities, that’s what makes our combined strength so formidable! We really complement one another.

Louis, Commerce Economics and Entrepreneurship student

Food & Beverage Management

A tapas bar with a DJ booth, an organic restaurant with its own vegetable garden, a rooftop bar made of igloos or perhaps a mojito lounge? For the jury of the Food & Beverage Management final, there are choices aplenty!

The assignment: come up with a new hospitality concept

The second-year Hotel and Event management students have not spent the past year sitting idle: instead, they have envisioned new hospitality concepts, which the finalists are invited to pitch in front of a three-person expert jury. The jury responds with a barrage of critical questions. So who performed best under fire?

Who wins over the jury?

In the end, it is Shamira from Tio Rotterdam who managed to win over the jury with her ‘Tasteful Escape’: dining and an escape room in one. That means participants must solve puzzles by the time the next course arrives. “An incredibly good plan, and the structure is quite elegant!” said star entrepreneur Ernest Lefebvre, a member of the expert jury. Shamira: “It’s totally amazing to have won! I really enjoyed this project and I truly stand behind my concept. Which is why I’m already working to test this concept in a restaurant, and I’ve already found multiple people who are willing to invest.”

1st prize Shamira and Dylan (Tio Rotterdam) for ‘Tasteful Escape’: dining and escape room in one 2nd prize Britt and Fleur (Tio Hengelo) for ‘The Dandelion’: an organic restaurant-plus-vegetable garden that supports local business owners 3rd prize Elissa and Vicky (Tio Eindhoven) for ‘Igloos on Top’: a rooftop bar made out of igloos

Mijn TopTent and Mini-Onderneming

Have you always wanted to run your own company? For second-year students in the Commercial Business Management programme, that dream becomes a reality during the Mini-Onderneming project! The students have a chance to set up a company of their own. In the final, they face off with second-year Hotel Management students who are looking for the most promising gap in the hospitality market as part of the Mijn TopTent project. The battle is on!

Mijn TopTent: find the gaps

As the creative ideas from the Hotel Management students show, there are plenty of gaps to be found in the hospitality market! From cosy sharing & tasting restaurants where global flavours are prepared with heart and passion, to a bar that pairs tapas with cocktails, there are still lots of opportunities out there!

Sustainable student companies

The students participating in the Mini-Onderneming project have sustainability on their minds. For instance: promotional cards made from seed paper, that grow into a rose if you bury them in the soil. A high standard was set, as lecturer and chair of the day Ella Smith-Folkersma agrees: “I’m pleasantly flabbergasted by the ideas and concepts that were presented today!”

Who won the final?

Today’s winner: Isabel and her ‘Move Steps’: shared electric step-scooters in Rotterdam! Isabel: “Today was a bit of a nail-biter, but it was also fun and interesting to see the other presentations. I genuinely did not expect to win!”

1st prize Isabel (Commercial Business Management student, Tio Rotterdam) for ‘Move Steps’: shared electric step-scooters in Rotterdam 2nd prize Elane (Hotel Management student, Tio Utrecht) for ‘The Reject’: a restaurant that cooks using ‘rejects’ (vegetables that are too ‘ugly’ to be sold commercially) 3rd prize Fay (Hotel Management student, Tio Amsterdam) for ‘Soul Sisters’: sharing & tasting restaurant that serves soul food

Entrepreneurship minor

The students in the Entrepreneurship minor worked hard to set up their own businesses. They then presented their businesses to the expert jury during the final. In the end, the jury selected Stijn, Sara and Chimene of Tio Eindhoven as the winner for their company Burnin’ Water. They got to take home a cheque for €500!

In the beautiful Koninklijk Theater Tuschinski second year students of the Hotel and Event Management and Schoevers Executive Office Management programmes have been assigned the exciting task of putting together an event for football club De Graafschap. The purpose of the event is to thank the club’s supporters in the wake of the COVID pandemic. The winners received VIP tickets to the 2023 Golden Giraffe Event Awards!

Event week

Stocks & Bonds

The Stocks & Bonds final is divided into two groups: first-year International Business Management students and the students in the Stocks & Bonds minor.

The students are given 11 weeks to buy and sell stock shares. They did so using (a lot of) fake money – €100.000! The idea is to choose their own strategy with the goal of using money to make money. The top five present their strategies to the jury in the Park Inn by Radisson Hotel in Amsterdam. Loëlle is crowned winner among the first-year students. The winner from the minor, Jasper, was in California working on his final thesis at the time of the final and attended the event virtually. Even if it’s the middle of the night where you are, the Stocks & Bonds final is worth missing out on a bit of sleep!

Winners – Stocks & Bonds minor

1st prize Jasper 2nd prize Niels 3rd prize Rik

The knowledge I’ve gained in the past 11 weeks will prove extremely valuable in the future.

Loëlle, International Business Management student

Winners – Stocks & Bonds project

1st prize Loëlle 2nd prize Tije 3rd prize Sven