NextGen Startup Award Sprint – Ready to Apply

Name: NextGen Startup Award Sprint – Ready to Apply
Start: 2026-12-05
End: 2026-12-05

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NextGen Startup Award Sprint – Ready to Apply

05.12.2026 | 09:00 - 17:00 | Region Dresden

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Do you have a business idea and want to apply for the NextGen Special Prize at the Saxon Startup Award? Then take this opportunity to take your idea to the next level in just one day.

In the NextGen Startup Award, you’ll work in sprints alongside other young founders, experienced mentors, and jury members to develop the key components of a compelling application. You’ll gain exclusive insights into the jury’s evaluation criteria and develop a strong startup story step by step—from problem and solution to market and competition, all the way to business model and team.

Instead of long lectures, you’ll experience short presentations, intensive workshop sessions, direct feedback, and practical templates. You’ll work according to the competition’s actual evaluation criteria and receive honest feedback on your strengths, weaknesses, and next steps for development.

Here’s what you can expect:

First-hand insights from the jury
Personalized mentoring and brainstorming
Work on your problem, USP, market, and business model
Networking with other young founders from Saxony

Your outcome at the end of the day:

A refined problem statement and USP
Market and competitive landscape overview
Business model with initial key metrics
“Why us?”—the story behind your team
Specific to-dos for the application

The NextGen Founder Award Sprint is an intensive program for anyone who wants to present their idea convincingly, learn from experienced experts, and enter the application process fully prepared.

Are you under 18 and interested in participating in the event? You can find more information here.

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Idea Phase & NextGen

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The combination of psychological, sociological and analytical principles with research and practice has inspired the qualified educationalist and media psychologist since the beginning of her studies at Chemnitz University of Technology. As a working student at Onkel Sax, Miriam was already intensively involved with the ‘NextGen’. The desire to not only understand and explain media use, but also to be able to derive target group-specific media offers from it, subsequently led her to a marketing agency in Dresden. As a marketing and project manager, she was involved in the planning, implementation and management of campaigns and cross-media marketing projects as well as the development of didactic and educational concepts for knowledge transfer.

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