PingelApp is a webapp who associates the idea with the competent Standby Mentors, teachers and researchers.

In order to support the entrepreneurial teaching aims, a collaboration started with ICT colleagues to exploit digital technologies for developing student business ideas and facilitating the management process.

The initial approach was to develop a web application, PingelApp, that provided on one hand the capture, collection, and management of young students’ ideas in a rationale and homogeneous way, and, on the other hand, it allowed a gathering of skills of potential teachers and researchers who could act as Standby Mentors. In this way students’ idea needs and mentors’ expertise are collected.

A further step in this platform for the management of ideas and of the ideation process was completed by an algorithm that associates an idea with a potential mentor, based on the needs expressed in the idea description and the competences declared by the mentors.