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Champion of Champions Competition

Each autumn, the Champion of Champions competition brings together top students from EIBF-funded university enterprise contests, giving them a chance to showcase their innovations on a national stage – and win even bigger prizes. 

Entrants are invited to present an innovative idea that solves a problem in society. This can be the same idea entered into the university competition, or a brand-new idea. 

As with the university level competitions, entrants must be engineers, computer science or biomedical students or be multi-disciplinary teams that include at least one of those eligible participants.

Champion of Champions Competition prize fund

Competitors have the chance to win the following prizes:

  • £5,000 + Mentor

    Enterprise Award
  • £3,000 + Mentor

    Startup Winner
  • £1,500

    Startup Runner-Up
  • £3,000 + Mentor

    Big Ideas Winner
  • £1,500

    Big Ideas Runner-Up
  • £1,000

    Best Presentation
  • £500

    Pre-Show Public Vote
  • £500

    In-Show Public Vote
  • £500

    Social Media Prize

All finalists will also receive coaching from carefully selected Sainsbury Management Fellows to help them pitch their innovations. Winners will receive books and CV packages from competition sponsors.

Watch to see how last year's competition unfolded

The 2024 competition was held at the Royal Academy of Engineering. Watch how the teams performed.

How to Enter

Champion of Champions Competition

This year’s Champion of Champions Competition is open to all eligible students who participated in an EIBF-funded competition at their university in 2024/25. Entrants do not need to have won their competition.  

Judges will be scoring entrants on: 

  • The originality of the idea
  • How the idea addresses a need in society
  • Clearly defined target audiences and the benefits of the innovation
  • Viability of the idea and how well this is communicated
  • How effectively the business idea is presented in the entry materials 

Entrants are not required to prepare a financial statement or budget. 

Entrants must submit:

A video explaining their innovation. The maximum length should be four minutes.

A Business Model Canvas setting out their business model. This A2-sized document should be landscape in format and include the names of the team involved as well as the email address of the team leader. Examples can be found on YouTube.

An A2-sized poster promoting the innovation. Again, this must be A2 in size. If shortlisted, this poster will be on display during the grand final.

While not mandatory, entrants are welcome to use images of their innovation in their submissions.

Apply for your dedicated submission link

To enter the awards, eligible teams will need a dedicated submission link. Entrants should email [email protected] with short details including: 

  • Which university competition they competed in
  • The name of their innovation or business
  • Whether they were an undergraduate or postgraduate at the time of competing in their university competition.

Alternatively, teams can register their interest online. 

Apply now

Got a question?

Please email any questions to [email protected]