This year’s university competitions

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…

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…

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 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…

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 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…

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 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…

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…