The CEU was represented by Sisay Habte Gemeda (LLM), Asress Gikay (SJD), Alexandra Horváthová (SJD) and Catalin Gabriel Stanescu (SJD) – all students from the Department of Legal Studies – the International Business Law program.
This year's challenge was to present a business plan on pre-school childhood education in slums which would reach 10 million children by 2020. The team from the CEU presented a business plan where a radio station would carry out this task and increase the level of education of children under 6 years in slums in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. This experience was a great opportunity for a group of lawyers to not only tackle legal challenges of starting up a business in countries like Ethiopia or Uganda, but also to prepare a business plan and present it to possible investors in a very limited time – this all by the necessity of developing an innovative approach to such challenging problem as pre-school education. The Hult Prize is one of few great mechanisms supporting social entrepreneurship with which innovative ideas get platform and the winners the seed money – $ 1,000,000 to implement their business idea.