Praia Acessível/ Mar para todos, by Maria Teresa Mascarenhas dos Santos Pina and Edmilson Tavares is the winning idea from the 15th edition of Sport BootCamp, which took place in Praia from 20 to 25 May 2024. The business ideas were presented at the final pitch session that took place throughout the morning of Saturday 25th May at the Poeta restaurant in Achada de Santo António.

Second place went to "Ami é de Paz e Bó", by Bernardo Almeida "Djaló", and third place to "A Arte e o Desporto como forma de Integração Social", by Pedro Elias Tavares.

A total of 22 participants presented 14 business ideas in the sports sector at this edition of Sport BootCamp, the third to be held in Praia since 2019.

The final session summarised an intense week of work by the participating groups, 16.5 hours of workshops and more than 20 hours of mentoring with experts in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Sport.

Sport Bootcamp has already held 14 editions in Cape Verde and one in São Tomé and Príncipe since 2019. It has more than 250 certified promoters and a number of implemented projects.

During the week, participants received training in specific areas for formalising a business, such as Business Planning and Management, Financing Modalities and Organisational Development.

The winning ideas will now move on to the second phase of the competition, the Sport Accelerator Lab, which starts on 3 June 2024. This second phase will bring together the best ideas from the 2023/24 editions of Sport BootCamp, which took place in Porto Novo, Santo Antão, São Filipe, Fogo, Vila Nova de Sintra, Brava, Tarrafal de Santiago and the capital, Praia.

This will be the 3rd edition of the Sport Accelerator Lab, which is an idea acceleration programme that begins with an intensive week of face-to-face training, followed by six months of remote mentoring. During this process, around 130 hours of training will be given and more than 40 working tools will be provided.