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Awards

Overall Winner

€10,000 Cash

Cruickshank High Achieving Merit Award

€5,000 Cash

Grant Thornton High Achieving Merit Award

€5,000 Cash

Local Enterprise Office High Achieving Merit Award

€5,000 Cash

Enterprise Ireland Merit Awards Fund (€10,000)

6 runner-up awards of €1,500
1 academic award of €1,000

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How to Enter

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Stage 1

Students create a two minute video that showcases their great ideas, highlighting commercial and export potential. The videos are submitted via an online entry form.

Stage 2

The top 50 entries are shortlisted and asked to submit a business plan.

Stage 3

Ten projects go forward to the final where they present their ideas to the judging panel. This session concludes with the Student Entrepreneur Awards ceremony.

Timeline

Please check out the competition timeline below

January - March

Call for video applications

March

Competition closes, and entries are evaluated
Top 50 submit a business plan

May

Top 10 finalists announced
Awards and winners announced