Student Entrepreneur Awards 2025
Student Entrepreneur Awards 2025
Turn your Smart Business Idea into a Great Business Idea!
The Student Entrepreneur Awards is at the forefront of supporting student entrepreneurship, giving prospective entrepreneurs a viable pathway to transform their smart ideas into commercial businesses. The competition is a great opportunity for ambitious and enterprising third level students, from all subject disciplines, to build a real-world business venture.
There’s an incredible first place cash prize of €10,000 to be won plus the opportunity to avail of specialist advice and assistance to potentially help turn your enterprise idea into a business reality. So get a team together for the most exciting challenge of your life so far.
The sponsors, Enterprise Ireland, Cruickshank, Grant Thornton and the Local Enterprise Office, bring their expertise to the competition to support entrepreneurs in developing viable businesses and creating jobs. They provide expert guidance in areas such as intellectual property, market research, finances and technology development.
Enter by submitting a two-minute video pitch on your idea. To find out more and for details on how to enter please visit www.studententrepreneurawards.com.
GROWTHhub is available to support your applications. We help in several ways:
- Advice on your application through our Enterprise Idea and Pitch Clinic.
- Access to video recording green room suite to record your applications.
Closing date for video entries is 14 March 2025.
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Other competitions available for student entrepreneurs:
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- Bolton Trust Enterprise Competition - The biggest University Enterprise competition in the country. Application Deadline is Tuesday 11th February 2025. Apply here now
- Young European Entrepreneur Award: New EU competition has been launched targeting Young Entrepreneurs (Under 40) with the potential opportunity to pitch your business idea at the EU Industry Days in Poland in June (Applications are open UNTIL 14th March 2025).
- Pitch Perfect - Deadline Monday, 10th February 2025. Register your interest in entering your start-up business in the pitching competition by completing this form.
- ENFUSE 2025: matches local enterprises and social enterprises with teams of Master’s university/college students. During semester 2 (January-May) as part of a module, students work in teams of 4-6 members with selected enterprises. (closing January 22nd 2024). Apply now ENFUSE 2025 - Enterprise Application Form Survey
- IDEATE Ireland - The initiative uncovers and empowers Ireland’s next generation of entrepreneurs, helping to turn their brilliant ideas into thriving international businesses. Application Deadline is Tuesday 19th March 2025. Apply now
- ivenTUre – Summer accelerator programme (open for applications April 2025).
- New Frontiers - Turn your business idea into a successful start-up.
- TU Dublin GROWTHhub Entrepreneurial Student of the Year Award. (Applications closing May 2025)
- Venture Lab
- Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative (YTILI) Fellowship Program - closed for 2025.
- Global Student Entrepreneur Awards Competition - Top price of USA $50,000. Closed for 2025.
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GROWTHhub project is funded by the Higher Education Authority's HCI Pillar 3, a government programme designed to meet priority skills needs, by increasing collaboration between higher education and enterprise with a focus on innovations in teaching and learning.
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