Best student competitions
Competitions are very interesting opportunities. They are hosted by organizations or companies and require some kind of contribution. Students compete with their ideas, photos, essays, or other projects, in order to win awards. Some competitions award money as well as other interesting prizes, like conference trips, airplane tickets, internships, and even job offers.
Y Combinator is accepting applications for the Winter 2027 Batch funding cycle.
The brightest students from all over the world meet at our company headquarters to learn from professionals, network, develop business plans and win the 25,000 EUR Innovation.
The 2027 Innovation Cup summer camp will take place 14-20 August, 2027, near Frankfurt, Germany.
For those who think in decades and build in days. We back the top 0.1% of founders building €10B+ companies with up to €500k and mentorship from unicorn-builders.
The North-South Prize of the Council of Europe is awarded annually since 1995 to two nominees, selected from a combination of the categories Global, North and South, whether grass root activists, personalities and organisations or institutions who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to promoting North-South solidarity.
Our London programs catalyse emerging startups from all over the world, across all verticals, leveraging the city's strengths in diversity, global outlook and talent.
USC and Techstars Accelerator is an incredible opportunity for innovative pre-seed and seed stage companies to accelerate their growth rate, make a quantum leap in their business, and tap into the vibrant USC ecosystem.
Techstars Chicago, in partnership with Long Chicago, is an early stage accelerator & venture fund. We are long Chicago and the Midwest. We back intensely committed founders with big bad ideas, and our mission is to be those founders’ most trusted advisor.
Techstars' Flagship Healthcare Accelerator supports innovative entrepreneurs creating game-changing solutions at the intersection of health, tech, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on transforming healthcare by improving patient care, access, affordability, and quality.
Techstars’ original remote-first accelerator program, that started in 2017, supports companies innovating across any industry.
It may not be obvious at first, but taking part in a competition can be a life-changing experience. It requires a lot of hard work, but it pays off later! You test your skills and knowledge in practical, real-world scenarios, which is so valuable to your future success.
We are big on passion. We want our founders to be passionate about their startups. We want our Managing Directors and mentors to be passionate about the companies in the class.
At Techstars NYC, we help companies reach product-market fit faster. Our program accelerates product-market fit by leveraging New York City's unmatched density of industry-leading companies and personalized support that allows startups to test and scale experiments quickly.
The Northwestern Medicine & Techstars Healthcare Accelerator's mission is to transform healthcare by investing in key areas like access to care, artificial intelligence, and digital therapeutics.
The American-Scandinavian Foundation annually awards three translation prizes for outstanding translations of poetry, fiction, drama, or literary prose written by a Scandinavian author born after 1900.
Can you explain a big scientific idea with a short film (3 minutes max)? Let The Brainstorming Begin! The official launch of the 2026 Breakthrough Junior Challenge is on May 11th. This could be YOU this year!
The 2027 Science Without Borders® Challenge is an international student art contest organized by the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation.
WorldSkills Aichi 2028 will be held from 15–20 November.
A dedicated community for the best deep tech startups from around the world.
A new chapter for women's health innovation. For five years, the Tech4Eva initiative has explored what it takes to bring femtech innovation into healthcare. Today, we are taking that experience into a new, independent chapter.
GLOBAL STARTUP AWARDS IS THE LARGEST INDEPENDENT STARTUP ECOSYSTEM COMPETITION WITH THE MISSION TO FIND, RECOGNIZE AND CONNECT THE FUTURESHAPERS OF THE DIGITAL AGE FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD!
A launchpad for teams and startups at any stage of the journey! Baltic Sandbox is a Kaunas and Klaipėda based startup accelerator primarily focused on growing SaaS and fintech startups.
The Society of Chemical Industry holds The Bright SCIdea Challenge, which provides support for students at university in the UK and internationally, to develop an innovative science-based idea into a business plan and to compete for a prize worth £5,000
We highly recommend you participate in as many student competitions as possible. You can even use some of those activities as professional experiences on your resume, regardless if you won or were a short-listed participant. Imagine adding to your resume the info that you participated in student competitions organized by Google, Daimler, or Schneider Electric!
The Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) is the premier global competition for students who own and operate a business while attending college or university.
Experience the world’s premier student trading competition. Celebrating its 23rd year in 2027, RITC brings together top universities to compete in real-time market simulations, test decision-making under pressure, and connect with future leaders in finance.
Are you an early-stage startup with a data-related problem in HR tech, finance or retail? Would you like Cegid Startup Program to support and accompany you? Or would you simply like more information about our program?
The ELI Young Lawyers Award was officially launched at the 2016 Annual Conference and General Assembly.
The APL Challenge is a quarterly event during which you can use APL to solve up to ten problems.
Our competition is your ticket to global success.
The application and other materials are now available for the 2027 Young Women in Public Affairs (YWPA) Award. Zonta International's YWPA Award recognizes young women, ages 16-19, who demonstrate superior leadership skills and a commitment to public service and civic causes, and encourages them to continue their participation in public and political life.
Designed to support ambitious entrepreneurs with globally scalable, innovative tech startups. Receive investment and coaching from accomplished mentors and Entrepreneurs in Residence. Startups move at internet speed. We match this speed with our always-on approach.
Falling Walls Lab is an international forum for the next generation of early-career innovators, trailblazers, creators, and visionaries.
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