PwC Cyprus supports entrepreneurship

Strategic cooperation with educational and business bodies: Through strategic collaboration with educational and business organisations, PwC will support entrepreneurship as an important tool in achieving sustainable growth in Cyprus, the organisation announced at a press conference on Tuesday, 30 June, 2015. The press conference was held at the offices of Capital Impact, a unique meeting place for the start-up community.

Within the framework of its Corporate Responsibility Programme, PwC Cyprus announced its official cooperation with the University of Cyprus for the operation of a Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute, Chrysalis Leap, the first Cypriot clean tech accelerator, the Cyprus Business Angels Network (CYBAN), an Angel Investment Network, the Cypriot Enterprise Link (CEL), a youth-led organisation aiming to connect and support the Cypriot entrepreneurial talent and the Junior Achievement, a non-for profit organisation specialising in entrepreneurship education.

By providing free consultative services, volunteer action and offering technical and other support to these organisations, PwC supports a series of programmes and initiatives which encourage entrepreneurship and innovation, especially among the young:

Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute at the University of Cyprus
“Insights” conference (Cypriot Enterprise Link)
“ClimateLaunchpad 2015” Business Ideas Competition (Chrysalis Leap)
Connecting innovating fast growth companies to equity finance (Cyprus Business Angels Network, CYBAN)
Educational Programmes in schools for youth (Junior Achievement)

“We are particularly proud that through the implementation of a targeted Corporate Responsibility Programme we contribute with the knowhow we have as an organisation to the overall effort for economic recovery,” said Evgenios C Evgeniou, CEO of PwC. “We are convinced that the road to growth passes through entrepreneurship, which is the reason we support organisations which aim to reinforce it, particularly among young people.”