Your Idea. Your Chall­enge.….
Our sup­port and the chan­ce to win in cash

€ 20.000

The Euro­pean Stu­dent Chall­enge 2026 is an ide­as com­pe­ti­ti­on for stu­dents all over Euro­pe, which is hos­ted by „Haus der Men­to­ren gGmbH“. It aims to reach crea­ti­ve stu­dents, who think out of the box and who are curr­ent­ly enrol­led at uni­ver­si­ties in Euro­pe- no mat­ter which facul­ty.

The pur­po­se of our com­pe­ti­ti­on is, that all can­di­da­tes (teams are heart­ly wel­co­me!) send us a pro­mi­sing idea in one of the fol­lo­wing are­as such as design/creativity, ser­vice, energy/environment, nutrition/health/sports, culture/art/music, mobi­li­ty, software/it or pro­ces­sing.

The best three rea­li­sed idea con­cepts will be sel­ec­ted by a jury of high­ly pro­fi­led experts and will recei­ve cash pri­zes within the pri­ze giving cerem­o­ny on 6th Novem­ber 2026:

1. Pri­ce € 10.000,00
 2. Pri­ce €   7.500,00
3. Pri­ce €   2.500,00

Appli­ca­ti­on dead­line is 28th Febru­ary 2026

Pha­se 1
Do you have an idea to sol­ve a cer­tain pro­blem?

Design/Creativity,

Ser­vice

Energy/Environment

Nutrition/Health/Sports

Culture/Art/Music

Mobi­li­ty

Sofware/IT

Pro­ces­sing

Each com­pe­ti­ti­on ent­ry must be sub­mit­ted with a cover sheet, which the par­ti­ci­pant can down­load here. The cover sheet and the com­pe­ti­ti­on ent­ry remain with the orga­ni­zer.

Plea­se regis­ter here:                        registration@house-of-mentors.org

Appli­ca­ti­on dead­line pha­se 1: 28th of Febru­ary 2026

All Feed­back

Having recei­ved your appli­ca­ti­on docu­ments our expert jury will make a first choice until the end of March 2026 whe­ther your idea will be nomi­na­ted for the com­pe­ti­ti­on. If so, you will be matched with a sui­ta­ble men­tor by end of March 2026 to form a team. The first 30 con­firm­ed teams will recei­ve free access to InfoScape’s AI for six month. All con­firm­ed Teams will recei­ve free access to Emnis’s CRM soft­ware for 12 months.

Pha­se 2

Pro­ject Pha­se

Tog­e­ther with your men­tor you will deve­lop your idea and make it more con­cre­te.

Appli­ca­ti­on dead­line pha­se 2 is 30th Sep­tem­ber 2026.

And the win­ner is…..

The best three rea­li­sed idea con­cepts will be sel­ec­ted by a jury of high­ly pro­fi­led experts and will recei­ve cash pri­zes within the pri­ze giving cerem­o­ny on 6th Novem­ber 2026 in “Vil­la Bonn” Frankfurt/M, Ger­ma­ny

1. Pri­ce € 10.000,00
2. Pri­ce €   7.500,00
3. Pri­ce €   2.500,00

Jury

Mor­ti­mer Ber­let

Rechts­an­walt, Ban­king and Finan­ce

Marie José Bern­schein

Dipl.-Kauffrau, hat Betriebs­wirt­schaft an der Uni­ver­si­dad Comp­lu­ten­se de Madrid und an der West­fä­li­schen Wil­helms-Uni­ver­si­tät Müns­ter stu­diert.

Dr. Chris­ti­an Gar­be

Mana­ging Direc­tor Frank­fur­ter Inno­va­ti­ons­zen­trum Bio­tech­no­lo­gie – New Ger­man Engi­nee­ring

Prof. Tho­mas Köb­ber­ling

Fach­be­reich Öko­tropho­lo­gie an der Hoch­schu­le Ful­da a.d.

Tho­mas Kurth

Direc­tor Deloit­te GmbH Wirt­schafts­prü­fungs­ge­sell­schaft

Chris­toph Racher

Dipl. Ing. Maschi­nen­bau und BWL, Insti­tut f. Pro­duk­ti­ons­tech­no­lo­gie (IPT) der Fraun­ho­fer Gesell­schaft, Bera­ter für Glo­bal Play­er im Bereich Auto­mo­ti­ve, Auto­mo­bil, Land­ma­schi­nen, Haus­ge­rä­te, Lei­ten­de Funk­tio­nen bei Sie­mens, Sie­mensVDO und Con­ti­nen­tal mit P&L‑Verantwortung. Pro­dukt­be­rei­che: Kabel­baum, Cock­pit, Radio, Telematic/Services und Chas­sis-Fahr­werk-Kom­po­nen­ten

Mar­tin Weiss

Geschäfts­füh­rer Haus der Men­to­ren gGmbH