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.
The brightest students from all over the world meet at our company headquarters to learn from professionals, network, develop business plans and win the 20,000 EUR Innovation.
The 2026 Innovation Cup summer camp will take place 8-14 August, 2026, near Frankfurt, Germany.
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation announces the 2026 Science Without Borders® Challenge, now open with the theme “Microscopic Marine Life.” This year’s contest invites students to create artwork celebrating the vital role of tiny ocean organisms—like phytoplankton, zooplankton, bacteria, and protists—that sustain marine ecosystems, produce oxygen, recycle nutrients, and regulate Earth’s climate.
The contest is open worldwide to students ages 11–19 enrolled in primary or secondary school.
The Young Entrepreneur Summit (YES) is one of the largest student-led startup competitions in Central Europe, aimed at fostering innovation and entrepreneurship among university students worldwide.
Y Combinator is accepting applications for the Winter 2026 Batch funding cycle.
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.
ERA gives you a chance to grow your business with the help of our operating partners and mentors. All this support can’t make your company successful; that’s your job.
The Earth Prize is a $100,000 environmental sustainability competition open to teenage students worldwide. It recognizes and awards students who develop the best solutions to accelerate positive change towards environmental sustainability.
Scale up your startup, SME, or Critical Supply project - Strengthen Europe’s Raw Materials Resilience and Competitiveness. Apply for funding up to €2.5m with ERMA Booster Call.
The search for some of the Commonwealth’s best short stories has begun again. Commonwealth citizens aged 18 and over can enter a short story of 2,000-5,000 words for a chance to win £5,000.
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.
As part of the Falling Walls Global Call and in search of the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2025, we invite leading actors in science and academia worldwide to nominate the latest breakthroughs and outstanding science projects in 9 different categories, science start-ups being one of them.
Do you run a science start-up? Grow your global reach and visibility, while expanding your network with investors, institutions and strategic partners.
Win US$1,000,000. Compete in the planet’s largest student competition to solve the world's toughest challenges.
The Hult Prize challenges young people around the world to solve the planet's most pressing issues through social entrepreneurship.
Techstars AI Health Baltimore powered by Johns Hopkins University and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Techstars’ original remote-first accelerator program, that started in 2017, supports companies innovating across any industry.
Techstars' recent State of Innovation Survey shows that venture investors and entrepreneurs view health tech as one of today’s most innovative sectors.
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.
The Competition is a unique trilingual (English, Portuguese, and Spanish) event established to train law students on how to use the Inter-American human rights legal system as a legitimate forum for redressing human rights violations.
Since its inception in 1995, it has trained over 4900 students and faculty participants from over 365 universities from the Americas and beyond.
APL is a programming language that will change the way you think about solving problems. You don’t need to know any APL or programming at all to participate in this challenge; the question texts will teach you everything you need to know to progress.
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 Paradigm Challenge is a simple way to win money for college! Top 100 entries win up to $100,000.
At Polar Bear Pitching, we empower startups to showcase their resilience and commitment by pitching from an unconventional stage — AVANTO!
Avanto (noun) – Finnish for “the ice hole.”
Ice swimming is deeply rooted in northern cultures like Finland’s.
The Westerwelle Young Founders Programme is a fully funded 6-month-long programme for outstanding young entrepreneurs from emerging and developing countries.
We’re looking to invest in entrepreneurs who want to change the world with the power of technology.
We identify and invest in exceptional individuals. Individuals with enormous potential, insatiable curiosity, and an impatience for impact.
The John Lennon Award is an annual competition open to student songwriters and composers of contemporary musical genres including alternative, pop, rock, indie, electronica, R&B, and experimental.
The NIBS Worldwide Business Plan Competition aims to stimulate global entrepreneurship among students at NIBS member institutions.
Want to get noticed, put your ideas into action and make your mark?
The Young Entrepreneurs Challenge—brought to you by Verizon and Unloc—is an annual event centred around finding the best young talent across Europe.
If you’re 16–25 and have a fresh and innovative tech-led idea, The Young Entrepreneurs Challenge could help you get your business off the ground—or if you’ve already launched, boost it to the next level.
JUMPSTARTER for One Earth seeks tech-driven startups and scaleups committed to driving global positive change and sustainable development. We are looking for ventures leveraging AI to boost productivity and innovate across diverse sectors.
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