A micro-investment platform for university students has won the Unicaja Challenge, a financial solutions competition in which more than 150 students from Comillas University participated.
The winning team, made up of Laura Muñoz Pérez, Antonio Rébola Iranzo, and Carlos Morales Campoy, presented "One Euro a Day," a micro-investment platform for university students that proposes investing one euro daily automatically, based on the user's profile. The application incorporates a gamified financial education program designed to promote saving habits and improve students' financial literacy.
In this way, the course "Creation, Organization, and Management of Companies," taken in the second year of the Master's in Industrial Engineering and the Master's in Telecommunications Engineering (Comillas ICAI), once again became a true innovation lab. This time, more than 150 students, organized into teams of three, worked for weeks to develop solutions that reinvent financial services for young people through the use of crypto technologies.
The finalist projects were evaluated by a mixed jury comprised of representatives from Unicaja: Estrella Botas, Director General of Technology and Operations; Israel Rodríguez, Director of Innovation; and Benoît Courtois, Director of Blockchain and Digital Assets; and representatives from Comillas: Enrique Marazuela, Director of Economic Affairs and Corporate Relations; Alexis Cantizano, Academic Deputy Director of the Higher Technical School of Engineering (Comillas ICAI); and Oriana Circelli, Head of Entrepreneurship & Innovation Ecosystem.
The challenge was coordinated by professors Susana Ortiz Marcos, Alejandro González San Román, Rodrigo Martínez Díez, and Guillermo Estévez from Comingues, who highlighted the quality of the proposals and the high level of student engagement. For many participants, it represented their first real-world experience with open innovation processes and direct work with a company.
By supporting this initiative, Unicaja reaffirms its commitment to innovation and education, backing initiatives that foster young talent and creativity in the financial sector. The bank is thus firmly committed to promoting projects that contribute to transforming the sector and strengthening financial literacy among young people.
