Hanken masters student Filip Winter (b. 1983) was awarded this year's Anders Wall scholarship for international studies. The scholarship, which amounts to 125 000 SEK (approx. 13 000 €), is one of the largest scholarships for Hanken students and has so far been awarded to 24 persons. The scholarship is awarded to a person who has been active alongside his or her studies as well as shown signs of entrepreneurship.

Already as an 8-year-old Filip had his first innovation published: a drawing that simultaneously functioned as a game. His entrepreneurial interest was seriously aroused in upper secondary school when he took part in the course Young Enterprise, where he founded an own company for designing and developing web pages.

Filip Winter studies marketing at Hanken and has moreover worked with projects within design and entrepreneurship. He has also studied media art and Design Management as well as taken part in a three-year bachelor's programme in Product Design at the University of Creative Arts in England.

Alongside his studies he has, together with a study mate, founded the company Essential Goods Ltd with the side name Helsinki Design Company. Currently the company is in the middle of negotiations with other Finnish companies regarding innovative solutions for kitchen appliances and a digital product service concept.

According to the jury Filip Winter is an active, creative and versatile person who besides having studied business at Hanken and design in both Finland and abroad also has worked as a graphic designer. Through his company Essential Goods Ltd he has sold and marketed his product concepts and ideas of which some have been awarded development funding. Filip will use his scholarship to improve his skills in three-dimensional design drawing by visiting international top design companies.

The Anders Wall Foundation has since its foundation in 1981 annually awarded scholarships to talented young people within the following areas: research within natural sciences, young entrepreneurship, rural development, international studies, and music. A scholarship on international studies is annually awarded to a student at the Hanken School of Economics. Since its start the foundation has handed out more than 30 MIO SEK to 245 scholars.

The foundation also brings together a large group of young entrepreneurial persons to a network whose members regularly meet up.