This category is open to projects by students who want to develop innovative solutions aimed at improving health and quality of life. Ideas developed in the following areas will be evaluated within this scope:

Digital Health Solutions: Mobile health applications, telemedicine systems, remote patient monitoring, AI-supported health analytics.

Preventive Health and Awareness: Projects that encourage healthy lifestyle habits, nutrition and exercise recommendations, awareness campaigns.

Accessible and Innovative Healthcare Services: Practical and innovative healthcare solutions developed for people with disabilities, elderly individuals, or disadvantaged groups.

Medical Technologies and Devices: Next-generation medical devices, sensors, wearable technologies, and rapid diagnostic systems.

In this category, students are expected to see health not only as an individual need, but also as a social value, and to produce creative projects for a healthier future by combining technology with an entrepreneurial vision.

• The competition is open to middle school (7th-8th grade) and high school (preparatory, 9th-11th grade) students across Turkey.
• Participation is only possible in teams of 2 or 4 people.
• Participants may be from the same school or may form a team by coming together from different schools.
• Each team must have a Project Mentor. This mentor may be a teacher or an independent entrepreneurship mentor.

For participation, it is mandatory to follow the entire application process completely and complete the required steps on time.

• Projects submitted to the competition must be focused on entrepreneurship in health.

• Projects may be in the following areas:

  • Digital health applications,

  • Individual or public health monitoring systems,

  • Accessible solutions for people with disabilities,

  • Technologies that support nutrition, sports, and healthy living,

  • Innovative approaches to mental health.

• Projects must be original and must not have participated in another competition before.

The NextPreneur application process consists of three steps:

• September 27, 2025 – Training for Project Mentors
  Process management training is organized for teachers or entrepreneurship mentors who will guide student teams.

• October 17, 2025 – Project Preliminary Application
  Student teams of 2 or 4 people upload their project category and short description to the system with the guidance of their mentors.

• November 7, 2025 – One-Pager & Participation Payment
  Teams upload their projects to the system in one-pager format and complete their participation payments for the competition to be held in Antalya.

Teams that complete this process fully will officially secure their place in the competition journey.

Teams that upload their projects to the system continue to develop their business ideas, refine their business models, and strengthen their presentations during the 20-week period leading up to the competition.

On competition day, teams present the final version of their projects to the jury and are evaluated.

Projects will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

• Innovation and originality

• Technological feasibility

• Social benefit and impact

• Entrepreneurial potential

• Presentation and teamwork

Competition

• All participants receive a Certificate of Participation and Special Awards
• Teams advancing to the final also receive a Finalist Certificate and Medal

Education Summit & Final

• 3 Gold Medals: GBP 500 cash prize for each team
• 5 Silver Medals & Special Category Awards
• 7 Bronze Medals & Special Category Awards