The 2025 CheckINN Revitalizer Innovation Competition is open – Submit now!
Date: 10 April 2025 00:00 – 25 May 2025 23:55
Location: Online
Language of the event: Hungarian
On 10 April, the CheckINN Revitalizer will be back on the road! The aim of the competition is to reward ideas for the reuse of abandoned or disused sites and properties for tourism. The call for entries offers university students from different disciplines the opportunity to collaborate and create value together, as well as to encourage entrepreneurship. The ideas competition, which includes tourism, architecture and design, aims to exploit cross-sectoral value creation and synergies.
In 2025 teams of two and three will be able to compete for a net grant of 1,000,000 HUF each.
Which categories are open?
- Building scale: a category for innovative ideas specifically for a building in the Rust Belt.
- Site Scale: This category is primarily for ideas for larger scale sites or areas, which may include buildings that have lost their function, but with a greater emphasis on rethinking undeveloped open spaces or urban design connections.
What do we need to submit?
In the first round, you will be asked to submit a video of up to 2 minutes in length, in the form of an “elevator pitch”, introducing yourself, your team and the rust belt building you have identified, with the new tourism function you have in mind.
What is the deadline?
The deadline for the first round of video submissions is midnight 25 May 2025.
Where can we apply?
You can apply at revitalizator.check-inn.hu.
How to enter the competition?
- Present your concept and team in a video of up to 2 minutes.
- The presentation of the teams will be evaluated by the CheckINN and MOME professional Judges and the top 10 teams will be scored and will go through to the second round.
- The participants will receive professional mentoring and presentation coaching 3 times.
- A more detailed presentation of the first-round innovation in a single business plan of up to 20 pages.
- A Pitch event to present the pitch, which will be part of the final score.