Constantinos Kofteros and Andreas Andreou, students at the School of Business Administration and Digital Technologies at European University Cyprus, won the silver medal in the Entrepreneurship and Business Development category at the 9th National Skills Competition, SkillsCyprus 2026. Constantinos, a third-year student, and Andreas, a first-year student, presented Food Impact, a proposal for an AI-powered advisory service that would help hotels and restaurant chains reduce food waste.
The competition took place from 29 to 31 October 2026 at the State Fair in Nicosia. Just five minutes before the challenge began, a draw revealed the theme for all teams. Each team had to develop a viable business proposal to tackle food waste.
The two students focused on the cost of the food that hotels and restaurant chains discard. They designed Food Impact to use AI agents to estimate how much food waste costs each business and recommend specific measures to reduce it.
The Cyprus Productivity Centre, part of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance, organises SkillsCyprus. The national competition serves as the selection process for the young people who will represent Cyprus at EuroSkills 2027, the European skills competition.
European University Cyprus congratulates Constantinos and Andreas on their achievement and on applying their knowledge of business administration to an everyday challenge in the hospitality and food service sectors.
