The Brightlands Startup Challenge empowers the innovative potential of students in the Limburg region. Home to a diverse array of educational institutions, Limburg boasts a rich talent pool across various sectors. The challenge connects these bright minds with a locally invested international partner network, fostering an ideal environment for entrepreneurship and innovation.
The Brightlands Startup Challenge encourages students to develop solutions to societal and entrepreneurial issues. It supports them in creating or expanding viable business plans and enhances their core competencies, such as entrepreneurial mindset, innovative thinking, and teamwork in interdisciplinary settings. Participants can bring their innovations to life through collaboration with experts from academia and industry, gaining exposure to different companies and organisations for future career- or project development opportunities. It is an inspiring opportunity for all students in Limburg enrolled in a University of Applied Sciences or higher. This format promotes interdisciplinary and interfaculty collaboration, leading to impressive solutions for current social challenges.
The Brightlands Startup Challenge offers an unparalleled opportunity to engage with motivated, innovative students. By participating, partner companies and organizations can endorse cutting-edge ideas, benefit from fast and agile innovation, recruit top talent, and coach and collaborate with emerging entrepreneurs. This challenge provides a dynamic platform for fostering creativity and collaboration, resulting in innovative solutions to contemporary social issues. Engaging with the challenge not only strengthens a brand's presence but also contributes to the development of a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem in Limburg.
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Overall Rules
Ideation
Do you have a cool business idea, a solution for a contemporary or future problem or perhaps a vision that you want to make more concrete? Make the next step to a business model canvas or a prototype and compete for the Ideation Award!
Requirements (one or more)
Advanced
Are you already beyond the ideation phase and do you possess or are working on a prototype or scale model and ready to take the next step? Then you can compete for the Advanced Award!
Requirements (one or more)
Maastricht University (UM), the European university of the Netherlands, has nearly 22,000 students and 5,000 staff. We are young, interdisciplinary and socially engaged, which is evident in everything we do. Despite our relatively recent establishment, we have already built a strong reputation through our excellent research and education, and by connecting science with regional, European and global challenges. We rank among the best young universities in the world.
