Creative Shock
Objective
Creative Shock is a global social business case competition that introduces students to real-life social business models and challenges them to apply traditional business strategies to social enterprises while promoting social business worldwide.
Description
Overview
Creative Shock is an international social business case competition for students, first held in 2011 and organized by the ISM Students Association and ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Who can participate
- Bachelor's, Master's, and MBA students from any discipline, from any country, who hold student status through the end of the competition
- Participants may register individually or in teams of 3-4 members
Format
- Registration
- First preliminary case round
- Second preliminary case round
- Final Weekend in Vilnius for the Top 10 teams, including a live case, conference, workshops, and cultural activities
Notable details
- Two of the cases are based on real-life social enterprises
- Registration and online rounds are free; finalists pay a participation fee for the Final Weekend
- Judged by professionals and Creative Shock partner representatives on solution quality and creativity
Final Weekend, Vilnius (Nov 20-23)
October 11, 2026
Public
Business School
International
Management
Marketing & Sales
Networking
info@creativeshock.lt
ISM Students Association, ISM University of Management and Economics
The Third place team members will divide 500 EUR, the Second place team 1000 EUR, and the Team of Winners will divide 3000 EUR.