This year’s university competitions
Read about all the latest completed EIBF Prize Fund Competitions.
Inspiring future generations
Plymouth Innovate Startup Competition
This startup competition is for University of Plymouth engineers, computer science and biomedical science students to showcase and pitch their innovative business ideas, with prizes for the best teams.
Business Idea Competition
The Business Ideas Competition, run by Edinburgh Innovations, offers University of Edinburgh students and recent graduates the opportunity to win funding to bring their innovative business ideas to life. Applicants submit a five-minute video or…
UHI Business Competition
The UHI Business Competition is an annual flagship event run by CREATE, the Highlands and Islands Hub for Enterprise and Innovation based in the Centre for Living Sustainability at UHI Inverness.
Pitch Competition
Students at Imperial College Business School designed a business based on gaps they saw in the market and issues relevant to their communities. Students were required to develop a pitch deck and video tape how they pitched the business, as well as…
Enterprise Challenge
The Enterprise Challenge is an annual competition that provides mentoring, training and funding for entrepreneurial students at the University of Greenwich who want to pursue an idea. All students and recent graduates of up to two years out are…
Bath Beyond Boundaries
The competition designed for undergraduate students in the Faculty of Engineering and Design focused on fostering entrepreneurship and inclusive leadership through a diversity impact programme. Participants, either individually or in teams, were…
Lightbulb Ideas Competition
The Lightbulb Ideas Competition is a key initiative at the University of Aberdeen, designed to foster entrepreneurial thinking among students and empower them to develop innovative solutions to real-world challenges. As part of the university's…
Invent for the Planet
Invent for the Planet is a global, 48-hour collaborative competition that brings together students from more than 50 universities to work on innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges, hosted by one of Swansea University’s…
Dragons’ Den Challenge
The University of York's Dragons' Den Challenge provides undergraduate and postgraduate students from the university's School of Physics, Engineering, and Technology with a platform to showcase their entrepreneurial skills and pitch their business…
Venture 2025
Venture 2025 is Scotland's largest university funding competition for new business ideas. It is a £65,000 three-stage new business idea competition for all University of Dundee students, staff and recent graduates split across different prize fund…
Broadening Horizons through Entrepreneurism
This innovative competition showcases the entrepreneurial potential of the University of Bath's postgraduate students as they pitch biotech solutions to address global environmental sustainability.Adopting a 'Dragon’s Den'-style format, student…
Bright Ideas
Bright Ideas is Kingston University’s annual idea competition designed to give students the opportunity to gain more confidence in ideation, developing and presenting an idea. Students can attend innovation workshops, have an idea evaluated and win…
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Design
This TEDI-London competition aims to transform promising design concepts into market-ready sustainable business solutions. The dynamic pitching event is the culmination of a term-long course where teams of students develop business concepts aligned…
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EIBF awards prize money to more than 50 universities across the UK to encourage engineers and scientists to develop a passion for innovation and enterprise. Could yours be next?