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KELLOGG-MORGAN STANLEY SUSTAINABLE INVESTING CHALLENGE

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Application Deadline: 24 January, 2024

LOCATION: USA

The Sustainable Investing Challenge asks you to consider finance and investment tools as a means to create impact on their own, and is one of the few ways for students to gain experience and get feedback crafting real proposals that fit into this critical and growing field.

If you are interested in making finance a force for good, or using finance to leverage impact, this is the competition for you.

ELIGIBILITY:

Teams are limited to a maximum of four (4) members.

All team members must be currently enrolled in a graduate program at the time of the prospectus submission.Undergraduate students are not eligible.

Your team may include members from different graduate schools.

All ideas must be the original ideas of the team members.

BENEFIT:

Grand Prize: $10,000

Runner Up: $5,000

Third Place: $2,500

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WORLDWIDE MERCK GROUP INNOVATION CUP FOR GLOBAL STUDENTS (€20,000 PRIZE AND FULLY FUNDED TO GERMANY.)

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Application Deadline: 31. January 2024.

LOCATION: Germany

The brightest students from all over the world meet at our company headquarters to learn from professionals, network, develop business plans and win the 20,000 EUR Innovation Cup. Applications are now open for the 2024 Innovation Cup and will close on 31. January 2024.

ELIGIBILITY:

Applications are from postgraduate students in the life sciences working towards a PhD in biology, medicine, biotech, bioinformatics, computer science, data science, biochemistry, chemistry, pharmacy, engineering or related fields. Postdoctoral students are also welcome to apply, as are advanced MBA students or recent MBA graduates with an interest in the pharmaceutical business and a background in life sciences.

This programme is not open to healthcare professionals.

BENEFIT:

As a participant in our Innovation Cup, you get a chance to network with top students from around the world, work in teams to develop new innovative ideas for unmet medical need, and build a business case with support from experienced professionals. We are offering shared prizes of €20,000 for the winning team, €5,000 for the runner-up and €3,000 for third place. Selected top performing participants could get an offer for a permanent employment at Merck. And to make things even more interesting, options to implement the best business plans will be evaluated.

The Innovation Cup summer camp takes place 20-26 July, 2024, near Frankfurt, Germany. Your travel, accommodation and food expenses are paid for by Merck.

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