How It Works ?

We have had winner case companies who spent total 8 hours in 3.5 months, including participation to the finals of 6 hours. Some other companies have had a meeting every 2nd week with a special interest to recruit the team members. This is totally up to a company! 

Our IH projects are built on the foundation of 'high impact, quick turnaround' timeline. Our typical project lasts between 3 to 3.5 months with the final presentation taking place at the 'Power of Youth' event.

Yes, or a person who is reachable by email or Teams with agreed intervals to answer the teams possible questions concerning the case assignment.

The case company owns the rights in case the solution is a new innovation. Sometimes the talents find an existing solution which is in the market, and matches the case company’s needs, in which case the IPR belongs to the owner of the solution.

SeaFocus will find the talents who they consider most suitable for each case. SeaFocus approaches around 800 university contacts all over the Europe and will manage the application and evaluation process after understanding the case company's requirement.

Yes, it is included in the fee, and he/she assures the quality of the work. There is also a coordinator from SeaFocus side, who will make sure the team is keeping the deadlines, based on the feedback he/she gets from the mentor.

The talents receive free of charge support in finding jobs, recommendation letters and the best may get a monetary award or an experience award. The biggest award for the students is the project experience and creating a network or high level business professionals, and future colleagues and friends all over the world.

The Case Company will take care of their own travel costs.

The Talent or the Case Company or an institution willing to support the talent, e.g. university or an entity providing stipendiums. This is up to the talent’s activities and also commitment to the project, and communication skills. SeaFocus does not have budget for the travel costs.

The finals is organised as a physical event if possible. Absence of the finals as a talent is not considered as a negative KPI, if no financial or other matters prohibit the participation. The main presentation for the finals is submitted as a video to secure the quality of the presentation, and to avoid online connection problems. The finals is livestreamed and the presentations are found afterwards in the Intelligence Hunt youtube channel.

No. What ever the case company decides to do with the solution afterwards is their own business.

No, our mission is to act as a bridge to find suitable jobs for talents, a “bridge without a road toll fee”.

The students/talents can be from universities of applied sciences, from universities all over the Europe and some even from Asia or USA. We do not limit the participation based on from which university the students come from, quite the contrary. We also support the idea of mixing the skills by welcoming student from different faculty backgrounds to same teams.

We welcome any kind of businesses with interest to find talents. The criteria is that the case assignment must have a link to international trade.