Vice Chancellor of University of Moratuwa met group of students, who recently won the HSBC Youth Enterprise Awards (YEA) 2015. YEA is a Business Idea Contest jointly organized by British Council and HSBC. It aims to recognize and support young entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka to start up their own businesses. There were over 800 contestant from higher education institutes, private universities and public universities participated for the YEA 2015 to win a total price money of LKR 1 million. University of Moratuwa not only won the top price, we produced the 1st runner up as well. This is the first time a State University won this prestigious award and for the first time a single institute produce the top two winners in a single calander year.
Dr.Sujeewa Ratnayake (IFS endowed senior fellow) who currently engage in Innovation and Entrepreneurship culture promotion at the University of Moratuwa, arranged the meeting with Vice Chancellor Prof. Ananda Jayawardane, Deputy Vice Chancellor Prof Rahula Attalage and Mrs. Vishaka Nanayakkara on 08.12.2015. During the short meeting VC briefly learned about the innovations and experiences of both the teams. He appreciated the fact that the students are fascinated about what they did and of their future plans of taking their projects into the next level.
