Contests
Contests
Digital Products Area
Be an Innovator Student
| BearingPoint's idea competition is aimed at students with digital product ideas. |
Health Care Area
Eugen Münch-Preis
| Every year, the Münch Foundation awards the Eugen Münch Prize for innovative ideas to improve health care, in the category "Health Care Research" and "Practical Applications". |
Ideas & Start-up Competitions
Allgemein
breakthrough award
| Start-ups from all sectors can apply for the WEKA MEDIA PUBLISHING GmbH award. |
The German Innovation Award
| The award is aimed at start-ups that were founded no more than five years ago, have their headquarters in Germany and have developed most of their innovations here. |
German Excellence Award
| According to the motto digital-innovativ-kreativ, awards are given to start-ups with excellent products or services, among others. |
DurchSTARTERpreis Nbank
| The prize is aimed at start-ups in Lower Saxony in 4 categories: Newcomer (January of the previous year), Scale-Up(<6 years), Science Spin-Off + Special Prize Corona-Solution (2020). |
German Founder's Award
| In the StartUp category, awards are given to young entrepreneurs (<3) who inspire with a particularly effective business idea, take advantage of new market opportunities and lead their company single-mindedly to the top. |
GENERATION-D
| The GENERATION-D competition is aimed at student teams or young professionals (<3 years in the profession) from all disciplines who solve current local and global challenges. |
German Startup Award
| The German Startup Awards 2021 will be presented in eight categories and one special category to outstanding personalities of the German startup ecosystem. |
KfW Award Gründen
| Applications are open to young companies (<5 years old) from all sectors that are based in Germany. |
Promotion North Hesse
| The competition addresses potential founders and young entrepreneurs (founded >01.01. of the previous year) with business concepts from all sectors nationwide. |
start2grow
| The start-up competition focuses on potential company founders who have a technological or digital idea for an innovative product/service. |
Several areas/clusters
Areas: Automotive, Chemistry/Plastics, Energy/Environment/Solar Technology, Information Technology, Life Sciences
IQ Innovation Award Central Germany
| The competition honours marketable innovations from start-ups, founders, students & scientists in the 5 clusters: Automotive; Chemistry/Plastics; Energy/Environment/Solar Technology; Information Technology; Life Sciences. |
Areas: Life Sciences, Chemicals and Energy
Science4Life
| Science4Life is a business plan competition for students, doctoral candidates, scientific staff and employees & entrepreneurs from the fields of life sciences, chemistry (Science4Life Venture Cup) & energy (Science4Life Energy Cup). |
Areas: Artificial intelligence, energy transition, health industry, material science or mobility, special prize New Work
STEP Award
| The award honours young (at least 3 years on the market), innovative & fast-growing companies in the fields of artificial intelligence, energy transition, health industry, material science or mobility - special award New Work - that are primarily active in B2B business. |
Specific industry/focus/target group
Education sector
ACT FOR IMPACT
| The programme is aimed at social entrepreneurs in the education sector and supports start-up projects and young start-ups (<3 years). |
delina Award
| The Innovation Award for Digital Education is aimed at projects and concepts that combine innovative future technologies and media with everyday learning. |
Area Business Intelligence/Analytics and Data Management
BARC Start-up Award
| Awards are given to young companies (<6 years) that offer software solutions or software-supported services in the field of business intelligence/analytics and data management. |
Area Circular Cities
Hans Sauer Prize 2021
| In 2021, the prize is dedicated to the theme: "Circular Cities". The categories are: Ideas, Strategies and Best Practices. Start-ups and academic institutions, among others, can apply. |
Content Area
CONTENTshift-Accelerator
| The competition is aimed at start-ups whose business models are related to the content industry. |
Area FinTech
Fintech Germany Award
| The Fintech Germany Award honours start-ups in the FinTech sector. |
Area Food and beverage innovations
REWE Start-Up Award
| Participation is open to start-ups with food and beverage innovations in the narrower sense (market launch of the product < 5 years / no prototype status). |
Gastronomy section
German Gastronomy Start-up Prize
| The prize is open to adult persons who opened a gastronomic business in Germany, Austria or Switzerland at the beginning of the year or who plan to do so by the end of the year. |
Area: Information and Communication Technology
Start-up competition - digital innovations
| According to its name, the start-up competition focuses on innovative ideas for start-ups in the field of information and communication technology. |
Circular economy sector
Green Alley Award
| The Green Alley Award honours young start-ups (<5 years) in the circular economy. |
Focus seniors
SENovation Award
| The award is aimed at young start-ups (>29.06.2017) or prospective founders who develop services specifically for older people. |
Target group women
Darboven IDEE Promotion Award
| The promotion award honours viable and promising business concepts of female entrepreneurs (<3 years self-employed) from all economic sectors. |
Next Generation Award
| The award honours successful female business successors and is aimed at family-internal and external successors. |
Weconomy
| The start-up initiative is looking for innovative, technology-oriented start-ups that are <5 years old, have their headquarters in Germany and at least one woman in the founding team. |
Location Hanover Region
Startup-Impuls
| The start-up competition Startup-Impuls is aimed at fresh company founders (this year) or people with a start-up idea that has recently been founded or is being realised in the Hanover Region. |