Kickstart Business Idea Competition 2025
In the traditional Kickstart business idea competition, the brightest Bachelor's/Master's degree students of the University of Oulu, Oulu University of Applied Sciences, and OSAO compete against each other to win the grand prize of up to 2500 €! The learning institutions want to encourage their students to develop new business ideas and present them at the competition. Besides the prizes, there is a wide variety of support and possibly funding available for further development!
Participate in the competition by sending a max 5-minute video pitch showing your business idea. The idea must provide a solution to a real challenge or a problem and have business potential. If your pitch makes the cut, you will move on to the semi-finals of your learning institution.
During the semi-finals, the three best teams are chosen from each learning institution for the Grand Finals, where you will pitch your idea to a live audience at Agora, and the jury of entrepreneurship experts will decide the winning teams and give their valuable feedback on the business idea.
The university semi-finals will award 1000/500/300 euros to the top 3 teams, and the prizes in the Grand Finals will be 1500/1000/500 euros.
Timeline:
- The application period is open and ends on Sunday 2.11.
- 7.11. University semifinals
- 28.11. Finals at Agora, Linnanmaa campus
Additional information, instructions & registration
If you have questions or would like to hear more details, please email ville.saarenpaa(a)oulu.fi