Applications are now open for the Irish Student Entrepreneurship Forum 2025. ISEF offers student entrepreneurs the opportunity to develop their skills through our workshops and mentorship programme. Our finalists will then compete for a prize fund in April 2025.
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Ireland’s largest student-run entrepreneurial competition is back! Showcase your business and be in with the chance to attend a series of workshops, engage with our mentorship programmes and experience networking events with some of the country’s leading entrepreneurial figures. Our 2024 edition offered a prize fund of over €17,000, and workshops with venture capital and investment firms. ISEF 2025 promises to bring together the nation’s brightest young talent and make our 14th session the most successful yet. Think you have what it takes to impress our judges and scale your start-up? Apply now via the form below.
The criteria are simple, you must:
Be a student (at secondary school, undergraduate or postgraduate level or has graduated before October 2024)
Start-ups should reside on the island of Ireland at the time of application
Start-ups should not have taken any outside investment before participation
Be able to present and pitch your start-up to a review committee
We are accepting applications from any form of start-up including incorporated, non-incorporated and social enterprises. Applications will close on the 10th of January 2025 after which we will begin reviewing submissions before selecting successful applicants to attend the later stages of our competition. If you have any queries, please contact us at info@isef.ie.
