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At the Entrepreneurship Campus, ideas turn into real change.
In 2025, the CEC is purely an ideas competition. Only idea submissions will be considered.
We understand Entrepreneurship as a global movement that needs every single creative mind in the world to make the existing economic system more intelligent, sustainable and fair.
What is the CEC and How does it work?
The Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition (CEC) aims to empower entrepreneurs – especially young ones – to work for a more peaceful and sustainable world. Participants are invited to submit their ideas with social impact and to make a concrete commitment to one or more of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to implement them. The 17 goals for sustainable development address the most important social, economic, environmental and health challenges of our time. Entrepreneurs from 13 years old are invited to submit their idea to participate in the CEC.
The competition takes place in three phases. In the first phase, entrepreneurs submit their idea with a short pitch. If their idea meets the competition criteria, they are invited to complete the courses and work on their Entrepreneurial Design. For this purpose, we have developed a special Entrepreneurial Design Canvas (EDC). After completing the courses, participants can submit their completed EDC for phase 2. In this phase all ideas will be published and the participants can vote and collect votes. The 10 submissions with the most votes will move on to the third phase, where an expert jury will select the winners. The winners will be announced at the CEC award ceremony, which takes place in an online ceremony.
Our Entrepreneurship Campus now has members from 141 nations. All participants are encouraged to discuss with each other – globally networked via the Internet – and to support each other with ideas. We have hosted the Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition annually since 2014.
