Find the Right Challenge for Your Project!
The Enactus network offers you many exciting opportunities to gain visibility, reach a wider audience and secure project funding. Thematic or regional challenges are also a great way to find inspiration and develop new ideas. Here you’ll find a selection of competitions and opportunities:
#KeinerAllein Challenge
According to the Techniker Krankenkasse’s 2024 Loneliness Report, 68 per cent of adults aged between 18 and 39 in Germany feel lonely. However, loneliness affects all age groups and leads not only to mental and physical ill health, but also to significant economic costs. The #KeinerAllein Challenge, sponsored by the Deutsche Postcode Lotterie, focuses on innovative solutions to combat loneliness, including the use of new technologies. The challenge will run from November 2025 until the Enactus National Cup 2026.
Action With Africa Challenge
The Action With Africa programme is open to Enactus projects operating on the African continent. Participating projects complete a business plan and present their project in a short pitch video. Finalists will be invited to the Enactus World Cup. Non-African Enactus teams must have a local partner in an African country to participate. In addition, projects can apply for prize money from the SDG Partners. The deadline for applications is usually the end of February.
Enactus National Cup
Show your potential and present your projects to the Enactus community! In addition to a lot of exchange, outreach and fun, prize money will be awarded by the partners and the "National Champion" will be chosen. The best teams from the preliminary rounds will compete in the final and the winner will represent Germany as the National Champion at the Enactus World Cup!
Enactus Startup Accelerator
The Enactus Startup Accelerator for Sustainable Business (ESA) is an opportunity for promising Enactus Impact projects. There are two categories: "Innovation" for early stage projects and "Startup" for projects with proof-of-concept that are about to be founded. The selection takes place in a two-stage process, with the five finalists in each category pitching and networking at an in-person event.
Ford Community Resiliency Student Challenge
The ‘Ford Community Resiliency Student Challenge’ is a collaboration between Ford Philanthropy, the Resolution Project and Enactus, in which undergraduate students from six countries are involved in acquiring key skills for the future of the world of work, whilst at the same time implementing community projects that focus on disaster preparedness, disaster relief, community resilience and essential services.
Partner Awards
Every year, Enactus Germany e.V.’s partners and sponsors award prizes to Enactus project teams that are considered particularly promising or have otherwise distinguished themselves. These prizes may be monetary or non-monetary and are awarded at the partners’ discretion. Further information on the prizes is available from the programme managers.