The Merck Group Innovation Cup 2026 for postgraduate students Worldwide (€20,000 prize and Fully Funded to Darmstadt, Germany.)

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Application Deadline:

Applications at the moment are open for the 2026 Merck Group Innovation Cup. The brightest students from all around the world meet on the firm headquarters to be taught from professionals, community, develop enterprise plans and win the 20,000 EUR Innovation.

As a participant within the Innovation Cup, you get an opportunity to community with high students from world wide, work in groups to develop new progressive concepts for unmet buyer wants, and construct a enterprise case with help from skilled professionals. And to make issues much more attention-grabbing, choices to implement the most effective enterprise plans will likely be evaluated.

The Innovation Cup summer time camp takes place 8-14 August 2026, close to Frankfurt, Germany.

Requirements

• Applications are from postgraduate students within the life sciences working in direction of a PhD in biology, medication, biotech, bioinformatics, pc science, information science, biochemistry, chemistry, pharmacy, engineering or associated fields. Postdoctoral students are additionally welcome to apply, as are superior MBA students or latest MBA graduates with an curiosity within the pharmaceutical enterprise and a background in life sciences.
• This programme isn’t open to healthcare professionals.

Benefits

• Your journey, lodging and meals bills are paid for by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.
• Merck is providing shared prizes of €20,000 for the profitable crew, €5,000 for the runner-up and €3,000 for third place.
• Selected high performing contributors may get a proposal for a everlasting employment.

Program Details

As part of the Innovation Cup, chosen candidates be a part of a week-long summer time camp, to work collectively in a extremely stimulating atmosphere. 

• Work as part of a crew to generate new concepts within the fields: Oncology, Neuroscience & Immunology, Drug Discovery, Fertility, Synthetic Biology, Smart Facturing and Advanced Electronic Materials
• Evaluate your concepts from a technical and enterprise perspective and construct a convincing marketing strategy
• Learn the necessities about R&D inside the pharmaceutical business
• Network with the brightest students from all around the world
• Understand how merchandise will be efficiently found, developed, and introduced to market
• Get to know us and find out about profession choices

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Merck Group Innovation Cup