Ideas competition 2026

You present your business idea on a maximum of 3 DIN A4 pages.

You should use the following structure as a guide:

1. summary - What is the essence of your idea, who is the target group (approx. 3-5 sentences)?

2. idea provider - How did you come up with your idea/solution, what competences do you/your team have?

3. description of the idea - what problem are you solving or what need do you want to fulfil? What are the special features compared to existing solutions?

4. benefits of the idea - What specific benefits such as money savings, time savings, resource conservation, health, well-being, etc. does your potential customer have? What are the characteristics of your customer group, how large do you estimate your customer group to be and what is the individual customer prepared to pay for this idea?

5. marketing and sales - How do users find out about your product and how do they get to you?

The next opportunity to submit new ideas will be announced in due course.

The jury is made up of experts on the topic of business start-ups from universities and business. The best participants and the best teams present their business idea to the jury and an interested audience in a two-minute presentation.

• All students and graduates of the Fulda University of Applied Sciences up to three years after completing their degree are eligible to take part.
• Attendance is admitted as an individual or as a team.
• The idea must not have won a prize in any other ideas competition.
• The enterprise must not yet have been formally founded when the idea sketch is submitted.
• The idea must have been developed independently by the participant and must not infringe the laws of third parties.
• The copyrights and statutory property rights of Fulda University of Applied Sciences remain unaffected.
• The organiser accepts no liability for statements made by jurors
• Participants shall indemnify the organiser against all conceivable claims by third parties that may be derived from the submitted documents in the event of any infringement of copyrights, statutory property rights, trade secrets and other laws.
• Attendance implies agreement with the above conditions.
• The organiser of the ideas competition guarantees the confidentiality of the ideas submitted. The organiser will not pass on participants' personal data to unauthorised third parties. The competition participants agree to the presentation of the idea and press work after previous consultation.
• Legal recourse is excluded. No prizes will be awarded if there are no eligible contributions.