About SC
We love competitions!
Student Competitions is an innovation company started by 4 ex-students, entrepreneurs and free thinkers. What brought us together was that we shared a great passion; we all loved student competitions! By taking part in many competitions during our studies, we had experienced great benefits such as nice prizes, opportunities to travel and a widely expanded network, but primarily we had lots of fun while doing it!
After a while, we realised that there are numerous international opportunities available for students, but also that they often are difficult to find. We had never come across a site where all competitions were gathered in one place. That is what made us start www.studentcompetitions.com. On the site we list all the world’s most important student competitions, student conferences and other global opportunities. We truly want to provide students all over the world with a service function that ensures that no student ever has to miss out a great opportunity.
Nowadays, we are not only listing competitions, we are also arranging our own competitions, such as the Master Your Idea Challenge together with Lund University, The Future Stars Challenge together with Metro, and the India Intelligence Competition 2011. We truly believe that competitions provide a great way for students and organisations to meet, exchange knowledge and enjoy mutual benefits.
.. and we love competing!
We have participated in several business plan competitions with our business idea, Student Competitions. We are proud to say we have managed to win first prize in many of these, in addition to many other awards, such as the Deloitte Excellence Awards, we achieved in spring 2011.
Photo: Jezzica Sunmo, Universum
In The San Diego State University Venture Challenge 2011 we managed to place better than teams from Harvard and UCLA, and win first prize. This made us eligible to compete in Venture Labs Investment Competitions (formerly known as MootCorp), the most prestigious business plan competition in the world, in May 2011.
We are a young global team- and we need you!
Student Competitions is made up by a dynamic team consisting of people from all over the world. We have many students working for us; if you want to join the competition movement, please click HERE!
Want to read more about how we create and market competitions? Student Competitions has helped several organisations to market and create their own student competitions, in addition to doing market research and other student marketing activities. Please find more information about our services for competition organizers, companies and universities HERE.
Related posts
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Winners of SCIIC 2011 announced!
The winners of the India Intelligence competition 2011 is now announced! It was a truly tough competitions with over two hundred contributions from all over India. Take a look and see if you are among the winners this time! -
The history of using competitions
Back in 1714 the British government launched a challenge for finding a simple and practical method for precise determination of a ships longitude. -
Competitions - A Way of Creative Financing
The rise of cash prizes for innovation is a response to changing business conditions—and a return to a winning strategy. -
Winners published!
Dear all Thank you for participating in Student Competitions global survey! Our apologize for the delay in posting the winners; we have waited for the last surveys to finish! -
11 common mistakes competition organizers make on their websites
Being an editor at StudentCompetitions.com, i have gone through hundreds of academic competition websites. Some of the websites are impressive. They convey a clear competition message, excellent layout, simple navigations and are a pleasure to browse through. -
Student Competitions competing in San Diego!
We had a lot of good news going on last week. On Tuesday, Student Competitions won Universum/Deloitte Awards: Student Driven Project of the Year! Yay! -
Five Reasons You Should Participate in a Student Competition
Why should you spend the time and effort to participate in a competition, when you are not even sure that you will get something for the effort? There are several reasons why participating in a competition is a worthwhile activity, you learn much, have a better chance of winning than you think and can gain valuable experience for your CV. -
Obama cheers competitions as a tool for change
In his State of the Union speech this morning, President Barack Obama praised competitions as a tool to create change. He also emphasized the importance of being competitive as a student and striving for academic excellence, to be successful on the international job market. -
Lund University Master Your Idea Challenge 2010 Announced the winners!
During the month of competition, Master Your Idea Challenge 2010 received applications from over 30 countries in all continents! Congratulations to all the finalists and two grand prize winners: Vivek from SASTRA University, India and Yichen Guo from Changchun University of Science and Technology, China. -
SC Organize Open Innovation Workshop for Students at the Shanghai Expo
Can open innovation competitions for students speed up the transfer of space technology to create sustainable solutions? At a workshop in the Swedish Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo, twelve top students from Sweden and China will explore the new field of crowdsourcing ideas and innovation through competitions, in a workshop organized jointly by the Down to Earth initiative and Studentcompetitions.com. -
Student Competitions Team aim for Winter Olympics 2014!
It is time to challenge ourselves! Student Competitions is considering putting together a team for the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi 2014. But in what sport? We have narrowed it down to three possible sports, now we want your input! -
"Challenge Yourself" unveiled
Student Competition's co-founder Gustav Borgefalk writes about the similarities between sports and academic competitions and explain what Student Competition's slogan "Challenge Yourself - Challenge the World" really means. -
GSEA Award to Zhu Chu and Student Competition
Our dear team member Zhu Chu was today awarded Swedish Student Entrepreneur of the Year 2010. He won a scholarship of 50 000 SEK (approx. € 5000) and a trip to the grand final in Kansas this autumn. Zhu is a master's student at the Royal Institute of Technology and co-founder of Student Competitions. -
Winners of the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award 2010
The St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award is one of the World’s largest essay competitions. Three winners got to share €20 000 and present at the 40th St. Gallen Symposium, which took place in Switzerland last week. -
Dragon's Den and Winner's Party
On wednesday, Student Competitions announced that we participated in the Swedish version of Dragon's Den and "won" an investment to be able to bring our venture forward. The show was broadcasted on national TV and in order to celebrate, we throwed a Winner's Party, where we invited our friends, family and closest partners to celebrate the success. -
SC = Most Innovative Student Venture!
At the Kairos Summit this week-end, Student Competitions was named one of the world's 100 Most Innovative Student Ventures by the Kairos Society and exhibited at a fair at the New York Stock Exchange. -
Meet X-prize founder Dr. Peter Diamandis
Dr. Peter Diamandis runs some of the world's largest competitions and has been one of the pioneers of private spaceflight. At Student Competitions, we naturally think that the X-prize idea is a really cool concept and wanted to ask Peter why he thinks competitions are so important. -
SC's in-house Champion wins trip to China!
This weekend, Student Competition’s in-house competition Champion, Gustav participated in AliBaba.com’s competition for all students who were attending the Kairos Summit, and won a trip to China! At Student Competitions we love to compete! So to keep our brains in shape, we regularly practice what we preach and participate in whatever competitions that comes our way. -
"Challenge Yourself" on Times Square, NY!
Student Competition's trip to spread the word about our service in the USA was immensely successful! We will soon write a longer article, that among other things tells you everything about our exhibition at the New York Stock Exchange as one of the 100 most innovative student start-ups in USA! We will also tell you the story of a student competition in which our in-house Champion Gustav won a trip to China. -
How to write a great business plan!
Ian T. Fisk is the Executive Director of the William James Foundation, an organization that annually arranges multiple competitions on Socially Responsible Businesses. Ian has seen hundreds, maybe thousands of business plans through the years and has nearly 400 judges that judge business plans, under his wings. -
SC Exhibits @ Kairos Summit in NY!
In order to establish our presence in the United States, Student Competitions will participate in the Kairos Summit, in New York April 16-17. We will have a nice booth at the fair at the New York Stock Exchange on Saturday. -
Visitors from 44 countries already!
Since we launched Studentcompetitions.com in Beta roughly two weeks ago, we have had nearly two thousand visitors from 44 countries! Our Facebook group reached 300 members today and is growing rapidly. Also, we have a public page in Renren, one of China's largest social networks underway, which will be launched soon. -
Enterprise Day
Today Enterprise Day was held at Stockholm School of economics. We where there and informed the students that they need to compete to stay competitive, get international experience and broaden there networks. Many students where really interested in our service! -
SC.com teams up with NACUE!
To strengthen our global presence and continue to develop our service offering to students, Studentcompetitions.com has partnered up with NACUE, the National Consortium of University Enterprise Societies in the UK. -
Robert in Swiss sustainability final!
At Studentcompetitions.com, we love competing ourselves and this week, our Robert had great success in the global competition START Innovation an Sustainability Award! Towards the end of April, Robert will travel to St. Gallen in Switzerland, to take part in the finals, with his company SolarCool, that makes solar powered refrigerators. -
SC @ NACUE Enterprise Conference
This week, the National Consortium for University Entrepreneurs (NACUE) held a conference on the theme "Business NOT as usual", a topic more relevant than ever for today's entrepreneurs. The event was held at UCL in London and the visitors were mainly representatives from Entrepreneur's societies from all over England. -
New office
We have resently moved in in our new office at Holländargatan 38. If you are in Stockholm walk by and we will coach you in student competitions.
