The Group UniCredit, with the Territorial Committees UniCredit, and the Young Entrepreneurs of Italian Manufacturers' Association have organised then the initiative the Talent of the Ideas, thrown on December 18, to promote and to support the birth and the growth of new entrepreneurial realities. They will be individualised competed path on the Italian territory innovative, original and generating proposals of value, on which economic resources and services will be able to be transmitted at the circuits that interact with the entrepreneurial reference cloth. The initiative avails itself of the collaboration of the Foundation FinancIdea®, acting head to the Commercial University Luigi Bocconi of Milan, that will compete to value the presented entrepreneurial proposals. L’iniziativa si avvale della collaborazione della Fondazione FinancIdea®, facente capo all’Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi di Milano, che concorrerà a valutare le proposte imprenditoriali presentate.

The young entrepreneurs (of age included between 18 and 40 years), fit to participate in the competition according to the criteria listed in the rule will have to make arriving their innovative entrepreneurial proposals within February 20 2010, in electronic format, at the postal compartment: talentodelleidee@unicreditgroup.eu.

For each one of 6 different territorial areas individualised at national level (Triveneto, North West, Emilia Romagna Toscana, Umbria Marche-Lazio, Abruzzo Molise Basilicata Puglia Campania - Calabria, Sardinia - Sicily), the best three entrepreneurial proposals will be chosen and been awarded. For the first three classified for each area personalised financing is provided, to be allowed in presence of the necessary presuppositions, and a program of Master/Training, highly qualified. 18 winners at local level, besides, will meet for the assignation of three prizes in money to national level and will be put in contact with a series of potential selected investors. I 18 vincitori a livello locale, inoltre, concorreranno per l’assegnazione di tre premi in denaro a livello nazionale e saranno messi in contatto con una serie di potenziali investitori selezionati.

The prizegiving of the three best entrepreneurial proposals at national level will happen in occasion of one of the Meetings of the Young Entrepreneurs of Italian Manufacturers' Association foreseen for 2010 (Holy Margaret Ligure, to June 2010 and Capri, in October 2010).