Insights from past years

YEEP already existed since 2013 – many students have successfully completed the week and great ideas have been turned into reality. A look back at the past YEEP weeks with exciting insights from former participants.

Alumni Interview with Habteab Agraw

In the next YEEP-Alumni interview series, here is a video interview with Habteab Agraw.  Habteab was one of the YEEP-2018 participants and came up with the business idea of establishing a video production firm with his team members. Since then, the idea has evolved into an advertising business for small businesses and corporate organizations in Ethiopia. In this video, Habteab explains how the team is helping out local companies break into the market through innovative advertising solutions.

Alumni Interview with Geremachew Wagaye

Here is a video interview with one of our YEEP-2017 participants Geremachew Wagaye from Ethiopia. Geremachew has been working on his business idea in the Education sector since his graduation. In this interview, he shows us a glimpse of his workings and plans at Ethio-SciTech Engineering Group which develops educational supportive materials for students from grades 7 to 12.

Alumni Interview with Liyu Gudissa

As part of our interview series with YEEP Alumni, Liyu Gudissa from Ethiopia who was a participant of YEEP-2019. Since the YEEP week, Liyu alongwith his team has been working on his idea of modern Enset (also known as Ethiopian banana or false banana) processing. Traditional Enset processing methods, which is used as a food source in Ethiopia, are tedious and inefficient. This is why Liyu’s team is working on a new technology to increase the efficiency and productivity of the process.

YEEP Week

YEEP Week

Want to be part of the next YEEP week?
The YEEP weeks focus on business ideas of Ethiopian students from different technical faculties of Hawassa University. Together with students from different schools and universities from Switzerland, they continue to work on the project during this week and try to turn the ideas into viable businesses.
Past YEEP weeks

Past YEEP weeks

Find out more about what happened during the YEEP weeks in the past years, watch our after movies and click through our gallery.
About YEEP

About YEEP

Team and Partners
YEEP is a project carried out by a team of volunteers from Switzerland and our partners from Ethiopia. The legal responsibility for the YEEP project lies with the association "DEVENTURE". In Ethiopia, the Institute of Technology of Hawassa University has integrated YEEP into its activities to promote entrepreneurship among students. Learn more about the team and their partners.