Deadline: 29-Apr-22
The 2022 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition (EBPC) application period is now open! Through its dynamic ecosystem, this competition celebrates purpose-driven ventures that address persistent and emerging problems in education.
The EBPC welcomes entrepreneurs with innovative ideas in education from around the world. Applicants are encouraged to explore how their product or solution can be applied to address issues in the field of education and impact teaching, learning, and education outcomes.
The Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition has awarded more than $1.5 million in cash and prizes to education ventures making an impact through innovation.
Focus Areas
Areas of focus have included:
- Urban Education
- Connecting Research to Practice
- Teaching & Learning
- Technology in Grades K through 12
- Special Education & At-Risk Students
- Open & Collaborative Solutions: The Education Ecosystem
- Online & Distance Learning in Higher Education
- Global/Borderless Education Solutions
- Early Childhood Education
- Workforce Learning
Funding Information
- Organizations entering the competition may not have had more than the equivalent of US$1,000,000 in gross revenue since the beginning of the legal existence of the organization until the date the organization submits its Application Form. Further, organizations entering the competition may not have had more than the equivalent of US$500,000 in gross revenue during the prior twelve (12) months before the date the organization submits its Application Form. Organizations that have raised more than this threshold, as determined in the sole opinion of the University, will be disqualified. Furthermore, organizations entering the Idea path of the Competition are expected to be pre-revenue and pre-investment.
Eligibility Criteria
Any individual is eligible to enter the Competition by submitting an Entry, except the following individuals are not eligible:
- Anyone who is under 18 years old;
- Any Competition judge;
- Anyone who previously was named a Finalist or Winner of a prize in this Competition. (However, if a previous winner wants to enter a new educational entrepreneurship business plan, which the University determines, in its sole opinion and determination, is unrelated to the previous winning educational entrepreneurship business plan, then the previous winning Applicant may do so, subject to their or its compliance with all of the other eligibility requirements.);
- Anyone for whom it would be illegal to enter this Competition in their legal jurisdiction of residence;
- Any Penn Graduate School of Education faculty, lecturer, administrator, staff, or other employee. (Note: Faculty, lecturers, administrators, staff, employees, and students from the University of Pennsylvania and its schools, centers and institutes, other than the Graduate School of Education, may enter the Competition, provided that they have first disclosed their product or service or technology or concept or intellectual property to the University’s Penn Center for Innovation or its successor (“Penn PCI”), using the disclosure form required by Penn PCI, in order for Penn PCI to determine whether the University has an ownership interest in such product or service or technology or concept or intellectual property by virtue of its intellectual property and employment policies.
For more information, visit https://www.educationcompetition.org/competition-details
