Eligibility and How to Apply Merck Innovation Cup 2025 (Up to €20,000)

Eligibility and How to Apply Merck Innovation Cup 2025

The Merck Innovation Cup 2025 portal are now open, As you participant in the 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 customer needs, and build a business case with support from experienced professionals. It has been one of the most unique, challenging, and mind-provoking experiences to be listed in one’s lifetime. Read through

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Application Deadline: 31. January 2025

Benefit:

They are offering shared prizes of €20,000 for the winning team
runner-up , takes €5,000
third place position takes €3,000
Your travel, accommodation and food expenses are paid
Selected top performing participants could get an offer for a permanent employment

About the Merck Innovation Cup 2025

As part of the Innovation Cup, selected applicants join a week-long summer camp, to work together in a highly stimulating environment.

Work as part of a team to generate new ideas in the fields: Oncology, Neuroscience & Immunology, Drug Discovery, Green Chemistry, Digital Health, Smart Manufacturing, Neuroinspired AI inference acceleration.
Evaluate your ideas from a technical and business perspective and build a convincing business plan
Learn the essentials about R&D within the pharmaceutical industry
Network with the brightest students from all over the world
Understand how products can be successfully discovered, developed, and brought to market
Get to know Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and learn about career options

Eligibility for Merck Innovation Cup 2025

Applicant must be 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
Advanced MBA students or recent MBA graduates with an interest in the pharmaceutical business and a background in life sciences.
Postdoctoral students