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INDESCAT delivers the V Business and Sports Awards

INDESCAT delivered yesterday the Business and Sports Awards in its fifth edition to Entrepreneurship, Internationalization, Innovation and Partnership. The event was held in the Auditorium of the UPF Barcelona School Management and was attended by 180 people from sports, business and institutional fields.

The Business and Sports Partnership Award was for Paited Apps and the Catalan Federation of Basketball for their project Coach Studio (vídeo), a platform to digitise the daily work of basketball coaches, to facilitate their work and also the follow-up and support of the club coordinators.

For the first time, a Business and Sports Award on Entrepreneurship was created, as a result of the implementation of the INDESUP! program to support entrepreneurs and start-ups in sport. The award was given to RunOpinion (vídeo), a platform that integrates information and functionalities that a runner needs to practice running safely and healthily, which he can share with his contacts.

Skitude (vídeo) won the Business and Sports Internationalization Award. It is a social network for snow and mountain sports that allows access to information about stations and record the activity for own use and to be shared in other networks.

Finally, the Innovation and Business Award for Innovation was for FirstVision (vídeo), a company that has developed a camera integrated in the shirts of athletes and referees, with the aim of improving the viewer's experience in sports broadcasts.

The award ceremony was attended by 180 people from the institutional, business and sports fields, including the president of INDESCAT, Anna Pruna; the Secretary General of l'Esport, Gerard Figueras; the director of the Consell Català de l'Esport, Toni Reig; the Comissionada d'Esports of the Ajuntament de Barcelona, Marta Carranza; the Conseller Delegat of ACCIÓ, Joan Romero, the president of the Unió de Federacions Esportives de Catalunya, Gerard Esteva, and the general director of the UPF Barcelona School of Management, Carme Martinell.

Pictures and vídeo of the session

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