We are pleased to announce that the Southeast Asia Division Contest of China International College Students' Innovation Competition (SEA-CICSIC) 2025 is now open for registration till 2 June, 2025. This competition offers an exciting opportunity for students across Southeast Asia to showcase their innovative ideas and projects, engage in knowledge exchange, and network with peers and industry leaders.

The China International College Students’ Innovation Competition (CICSIC) is a premier global event that unites university/college students worldwide to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. The competition provides a platform for participants to showcase their ideas, collaborate and explore innovative solutions to address global challenges and advance sustainable development. Since its inception in 2015. The competition has successfully held ten consecutive sessions. In 2024, it attracted 20.8 million participants and 5.14 million projects from 5,406 universities across 153 countries and regions.

· For more information on SEA-CICSIC 2025 visit our website: https://events.xmu.edu.my/seacicsic25/

· To register for the competition visit: https://mys.pilcchina.org/home

Key Dates and Details:

· Registration starts: 25 April 2025 

· Final Submission Deadline: 2 June 2025, 12 noon (Malaysian Time) (Deadline Extended)

?Special Opportunities (terms and conditions apply):

· Finalists will be awarded a fully sponsored trip to Xiamen University Malaysia to participate in the final competition.

· Win from a total prize pool of up to RM250,000

        ?? 10 Gold Prizes – RM10,000 each

        ?? 15 Silver Prizes – RM5,000 each

        ?? 25 Bronze Prizes – RM3,000 each

· Sponsored industrial visits will be given to selected winners

Project Entry Requirements

1. Projects should address social needs, create new products and business models, and promote the transformation of key industries such as manufacturing, agriculture, health, energy, and environmental protection. They should also facilitate the integration of digital technology with education, medical care, transport, finance, and cultural exchange.

2. Projects must be ethical, legal, and free of any content that violates Chinese and any other Southeast Asia countries’ laws or regulations. All inventions, patented technologies, and resources involved must have the attendant legal intellectual property rights and proprietary rights. Entrants who submit plagiarized or pirated entries will be disqualified from the competition, forfeit any awards received, and shall bear all legal liabilities.

3. Entrants must choose the proper category for submitting their projects. The participating teams must truthfully fill out and submit entry materials in the registration system in a timely manner. Projects that have won the Gold or Silver Awards in previous sessions of the CICSIC and Gold Awards in the MCYIC are not eligible for submission.

4. Entrants must be under 35 years old (born on/after March 1, 1990).

How to Participate

1. The Competition only accepts team entries. All entrants shall participate as teams of 3 to 15 members (team leader included). A team may be formed by members from more than one college. All entrants shall be core members of the team.

2. All entrants must be students who are currently enrolled at a university/college or those who have graduated within the past 5 years (graduated in/after 2020). The application should be submitted by the team leader. A team shall represent only one foreign institution in which the team leader is currently enrolled or has graduated from. In this case, a foreign institution refers to a higher education institution that is located in Southeast Asia countries and is qualified to provide tertiary education and award degrees. Participants from different universities are allowed to form a team.

3. All submissions will be classified into one of the following two categories depending on the entrants’ academic status: Undergraduate or Postgraduate. The submissions will be further classified into two sub-categories based on the projects’ business stage: Idea Stage and Startup Stage Projects. All participating colleges shall instruct entrants to correctly fill out the application and register in the appropriate category.

Requirements for Undergraduate & Postgraduate

1. Idea Stage

· are creative;

· have mature product prototypes or service models;

· have not completed business registration or other types of registration on or before 29 April 2025.

· The applicant must be the team leader, and the team leader and members must currently be undergraduates or junior college students.

2. Startup Stage

· Projects are projects that have completed business registration or other types of registration (before 29 April 2025).

· The applicant must be the team leader, the legal representative of the start-up and a current undergraduate or an undergraduate/junior college student who has graduated with an undergraduate degree within the past 5 years.