The following competitions close for entry throughout March 2019.
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Solve It UK: McKinsey and Company
Solve It is a competition for university students who would like to use their skills to help a non-profit to address some of their current strategic and operational challenges. Participating in this event will give you the opportunity to learn, meet like-minded peers, and do meaningful work that will have a social impact.
The competition is open to current undergraduate and master's degree students graduating in 2019 or later.
For more information, go to: mckinsey.com/careers/solve-it-uk
Closing date: 10th March 2019
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PepsiCo's Global Student Challenge
PepsiCo's Global Student Challenge is a unique opportunity to pitch your own big idea. The chance to respond to a real, thought-provoking challenges that could make a difference on a global scale may be your entry point to a rotational Graduate Position in Human Resources.
The Challenge: Imagine PepsiCo has given you $100,000 to tap into the next big food and beverage trend. What would you focus on, how you would you harness that trend? That trend might be a about how we digitalize our talent attraction, how to transform the employee experience, innovate on L&D practices, or reinvent state of the future workplace cultures, up to you to let your ideas flow!
Candidates should be in their final year of study for Bachelor, Master or MBA programs or already graduated with up to three years of work experience and should have the eligibility to work in Europe.
This competition is a precursor to the Human Resources Graduate Program at PepsiCo.
To participate, sign up and deliver your Business Case, go to: daretodomore.pepsico.com.
Closing date: 10th of March 2019
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EDPR University Challenge 2019
The EDPR University Challenge is an annual contest that seeks to stimulate the university community by giving students an opportunity to apply their academic knowledge to the development of a topic area or project in the fields of Engineering, Management, Economics, Marketing and Communication.
We want to give participants the opportunity to become part of this challenge so they may put the knowledge they have been acquiring through their academic years to work. This is one of the ways in which EDP Renewables collaborates in the training of our university students, by encouraging them to interact with the reality of the business world and society in general.
All these projects will be evaluated by an independent jury composed by university professors, EDP Renewables staff and Premivalor Consulting specialists in the areas stipulated above.
Prizes include a scholarship and a research grant (of varying amounts) for the winning three groups.
More information is available here.
Closing date: 14th of March 2019
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The NODS Big Idea Student Award 2019
The Nods are a new set of creative awards that recognise and celebrate great work, organisations and people.It has been developed with the support of the creative community for the benefit of the creative community in Scotland.
Tackling the subject of traffic wardens, the Big Idea needs to increase their self-esteem and create respect from the vehicle-driving public. We are asking for submissions from individuals or as a team of two, by 6pm on Tuesday 19th March for a chance to win £1,000.
More details, including further information and rules can be found at: www.thenods.co.uk.
Closing date: 25th of March 2019
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The Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs 2019
For 25 years the Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs has helped creatives bring their ideas to life. In 2019, the bank is working with MeWe360 to find the best young talent wanting to drive positive social impact through their creative enterprise.
The programme aims to enable and celebrate creative entrepreneurship for social good led by 18-30 year olds in the UK today.
To be eligible to enter you must be:
- 18-30 years old
- have a strong idea or an existing business in the creative industries
- want to create positive social impact through your enterprise, etc
Winning DBACE could get you: up to £20K investment to start or grow your enterprise, 12 months business support, MeWe360 memberships, etc.
For more information and to take part: dbace.org/
Closing date: 31st of March 2019
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