Students from the School of Business Administration and Digital Technologies at the European University of Cyprus, Konstantinos Kofteros and Andreas Andreou, won the silver medal in the “Entrepreneurship and Business Development” at the 9th National Skills Competition, SkillsCyprus 2026. Konstantinos, a junior, and Andreas, a freshman, presented “Food Impact,” a business proposal aimed at reducing food waste in hotels and restaurant chains with the help of artificial intelligence.
The competition took place from October 29 to 31, 2026, at the Nicosia State Fairgrounds. Just five minutes before the challenge began, the teams learned their common theme—food waste—through a random draw and were asked to develop a sustainable business proposal.
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The two students focused on the cost of food discarded by hotels and restaurant chains. They designed “Food Impact” as a consulting service that would use artificial intelligence tools (AI agents) to calculate how much food waste costs each business and propose specific measures to reduce it.
SkillsCyprus is organized by the Cyprus Productivity Center of the Ministry of Labor and Social Insurance. Through this national competition, young men and women are selected to represent Cyprus at the EuroSkills 2027 European skills competition.
The European University of Cyprus congratulates Konstantinos and Andreas on their distinction and on the way they applied their knowledge of business administration to a real-world challenge in the hospitality and food service industries.
