JAYE Malta team of four leaves mark in Bucharest

After winning the national finals, Freshy.io last month participated in the JA Europe Enterprise Challenge in Bucharest. Freshy.io is a fledgling business venture created thanks to the Junior Achievement Young Enterprise Malta Foundation (JAYE Malta) Start-Up Programme. Over 90 students were competing in the European finale after participating in a year-long Start-Up Programme and qualifying at their respective national level. A JA Europe initiative, the Start-Up Programme annually engages over 14,000 university students from 300 universities across Europe, giving them the opportunity to experience starting up a business from top to bottom. Freshy.io is a company made up of four University of Malta students who developed an application through which cafeterias and restaurants can sell excess fresh, made-daily food. Users on the other hand are able to get notified about these nearby discounted offers by means of a high-tech push notification interface. The team representing Malta was made up of Anatoliy Gatt, Svetlana Mitrakhovich, Valeria Lobanova and Gleb Eliseev, the latter being recognised with an Alumni Leadership Award. Freshy.io will launch their company and services later...