Student entrepreneurship project "Knit Surgery" won the 2021 PEPITE Award
Congratulations to Margaux Guillerm, a student-entrepreneur of the PSL PEPITE program and an alumna of PSL's EnaMoMa master's program: she won the 2021 PEPITE Award in the "Ecological Transition" category.
Organized by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, in partnership with Bpifrance, the PEPITE Award is granted every year to committed young entrepreneurs from one of the 33 Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centers (PEPITE). The list of the 32 2021 winners was released on October 7.
Thanks to transformation and finishing systems, as well as repair techniques that I developed, I brought back to life knitted pieces that have been too quickly discarded.
Margaux Guillerm, a student-entrepreneur enrolled in the PSL PEPITE program, is the winner in the "Ecological Transition" category for her entrepreneurial project "Knit Surgery". "Knit Surgery" is a committed fashion brand, offering upcycled clothing made from second-hand sweaters. The project was born in 2020 while Margaux Guillerm was a student in the EnaMoMa master's program at PSL.
The PSL - PEPITE Program
Established in 2014, the PSL - Pepite Program is part of the 33 French student clusters for innovation, transfer and entrepreneurship. It aims to give students the skills, services and support they need to carry out their project and offers: