2024 Applications are now closed!
Details for the 2025 competition will be published this September, but for those interested, the criteria for the 2024 competition are below!
Ireland’s largest student-run entrepreneurial competition is back! Showcase your business and be in with the chance to attend a series of workshops, mentoring programmes and networking events with some of the country’s leading entrepreneurial figures. With over €15,000 in prize money up for grabs, ISEF 2024 promises to bring together the nation’s brightest young talent and make it the most successful year yet. Think you have what it takes to impress our judges and level up your start-up? Apply now via the form below.
The criteria are simple, you must:
Be a student (at secondary school, undergraduate or postgraduate level or has graduated before October 2023)
Start-ups should reside on the island of Ireland at the time of application
Start-ups should not have taken any outside investment before participation
Be able to present and pitch your start-up to a review committee
We are accepting applications from any form of start-up including incorporated, non-incorporated and social enterprises. Applications will close on the 10th of January 2024 after which we will begin reviewing submissions before selecting successful applicants to attend the later stages of our competition.