Fully Funded L’oreal BRANDSTORM Competition 2019 is going to be held in France, Paris.

 L’ORÉAL BRANDSTORM is an international innovation competition organized by L’ORÉAL SA , a corporation with a capital of 112 016 437 40 Euros, registered with the Paris Company Trade Register under the number 632 012 100 with its headquarters located at 14 Rue Royale, 75008 Paris.

The aim of the Competition is to offer the students a pedagogical and professional experience and the opportunity to innovate within the beauty industry. Moreover, this project is a part of the L’ORÉAL international human resources communication strategy and aims to enhance students’ entrepreneurial skills, creativity skills, and perception of the L’ORÉAL business.

Eligibility Criteria

L’ORÉAL BRANDSTORM is a Competition for undergraduate as well as graduate students who study in one of the participating countries and satisfy the conditions set up below.

• Students must be eighteen (18) years of age or older to participate. Any under-age Participant must have the consent of his or her parent or legal guardian to accept the Official Rules and participate in L’ORÉAL BRANDSTORM.
• Students attending a post-graduate course (e.g. doctorate programme or MBA) cannot participate (except for post-graduate courses in India and Israel)
• Students eligible to participate should not yet have acquired considerable professional experience (i.e. not more than two years of work experience. Internships, apprenticeships, summer job experiences and auto-entrepreneurial work do not account into work experience).
• Students who have already played the Competition in a previous year and reached the international finals cannot participate another time.
• Students who did an internship in the department of the brand during 2 years preceding the Competition cannot participate.
• The Participants have to compose a team of three (3) students. Participants are only allowed to register in one team.
• Also, all members of the Teams must have a valid e-mail address.

Registration Process

To register Participants should:

• Go to the Platform: loreal.com;
• Click on [SIGN UP] to start the registration
• Furthermore, follow the registration procedure and fill in the registration form, providing all mandatory information
• Click on [SIGN UP] to confirm their registration

Deliverables Requirements

• All the deliverables should in English.
• Moreover, the presentations should be in the form of PDF. The format of the presentation should be 16×9. No other elements like  music, videos, animations etc. should be included in the presentation.
• In case of request of a video presentation by the country selection process, Participants  hereby expressly declare that they hold any and all rights and all necessary authorizations required regarding these recorded elements.
• For the National Selection round, a PDF or MP4 format can be a need according to the country selection process.

The Competition will start on October 1^st, 2018 with the opening of the registration process and will end on May 24^th, 2019 after the World Finals ceremony.

Reward

This year, the reward will be a 3-month Intrapreneurship program. The winning team will get the opportunity to work at Station F as L’Oréal employees. There will be a deadline to begin the program until December 31^st 2019. In addition, this award gives the opportunity for the winners to work on developing their Brandstorm project into a feasible business model.