The great institution of Young Entrepreneurship Awards returns this year for the 14th year under its organization Sir Stelios Hatziioannou and Stelios Foundation.

THE Sir Stelios Hatziioannouas part of his extensive charity work, has founded the Stelios Hatziioannou Charitable Foundation, which provides funding and advice for education, business and environmental initiatives in the UK, Greece and Cyprus. The foundation also sponsors annual awards with cash prizes for entrepreneurs in the UK, Greece and Cyprus.

For the 14th consecutive year, through the institution of the Young Entrepreneurship Awards, o Sir Stelios Hatziioannou awards young and young entrepreneurs for their entrepreneurial activity and supports it financially with prizes of total value €100,000, for 3 winners: The first winner will receive €50,000, the second €30,000 and the third €20,000. It should be noted, in fact, that with this year’s event, the “Stelios Hatziioannou Youth Entrepreneurship Awards” will have strengthened the new businesses of the country with the total amount of €1,130,000. Application deadline (only submitted online) expires August 4th.

The conditions

  • Businesses wishing to apply for the awards must:
  • Be up to 40 years old (born in 1983 and later)
  • To have established a Greek company and to have started their business activity
  • To have accumulated a total turnover of at least 20,000 euros per year
  • Their business must employ at least three people
  • The candidate for the entrepreneur award must be a shareholder of at least 50% of the business. If there are two owners, they must jointly own more than 80% of the business.

The application deadline for the 2023 Stelios Hatziioannou Youth Entrepreneurship Awards is until August 4, 2023.
How to submit applications

  • Candidates interested in the awards can apply exclusively online through the page of the Stelios Hatziioannou Charitable Foundation: https://steliosfoundation.gr/vraveia-epicheirimatikotitas/.

Candidates are invited to “download” the relevant participation form from there, fill it in and send it in pdf format to the e-mail address [email protected], mentioning “STELIOS AWARDS FOR YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS” in the e-mail subject.
Please note that the new application deadline is August 4, 2023.

The presentation of prizes

The awarding ceremony will follow at the beginning of September and on an exact date that will be announced in time “Youth Entrepreneurship Awards 2023 Stelios Hatziioannou”. The relevant ceremony will take place in person in a historic restored property owned by the Stelios Hatziioannou Foundation, in the heart of Plaka, in the emblematic building in 22 Kydathinaion Street. This is the new privately owned site of the Stelios Hatziioannou Charitable Foundation with the name Stelios Foundation Conference Hall (Conference Center of the Stelios Hatziioannou Foundation).

The inspiration

If anyone knows well from young entrepreneurship, from how a good idea turns into action and a profitable business, it is Sir Stelios Hatziioannouwho “stirred up the waters” with the airline easyJet.com in 1994, aged just 27. Six years later he floated easyJet.com on the London Stock Exchange to fund an increase in its fleet from 16 to 330 Airbus aircraft, which now carry almost 100 million passengers a year. Strategically, o Sir Stelios Hatziioannou retained ownership of the easyJet.com brand in its own private company and expanded the easy family of brands into other areas such as easyHotel.com, easyCar.com and many others. Both his business and philanthropic work is a source of inspiration for young entrepreneurs worldwide.