EMEA Qualifier

What is Cesim Elite?

Cesim Elite is an international business simulation competition for university students. Each team runs its own virtual company in a Cesim simulation and competes directly against other student teams in the same market.

The EMEA Qualifier is the regional round for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The best teams go on to the International Grand Final.

What your team does

Lead a virtual company through several decision rounds over 7 days
Decide on strategy, pricing, marketing, production and finance as a team
See the market react after every round — results are ranked against competing teams
Practice first: every team gets a practice round before the competition starts

Qualifier19–25 April 2027

FormatFully online

Team3–5 students + coach

Top teams advance toInternational Grand Final

The path to the top

Until 16 April 2027

Register

Form a team of 3–5 students and register below. Add team details, photos and a short motivational video before the deadline.

19–25 April 2027

Run your virtual company online against teams from across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

May 2027

International Grand Final

The best EMEA teams compete against regional winners from around the world for the Cesim Elite title.

Participation fees

Your university’s first team competes free of charge.

Additional teams from the same university pay a fee per team. Register early to save.

First teamPer university

Free

Early bird Save €40Additional teams · until 31 January 2027

€160/ team

Regular feeAdditional teams

€200/ team

Who can participate?

Higher education students

All team members must be enrolled in a higher education institution at the time of the competition.

Teams of 3–5

Up to 5 members per team, minimum 3 to participate. You can’t register alone.

Institutions & student associations

Universities can sponsor one or more teams. Student associations and students can also register their own team.

Institutional email required

We only accept university email addresses, to make sure only students participate.

"We made a few bets because you cannot do everything based on data because you don’t know what your competitors are gonna do. Some choices that made us win were based on strategic thinking and trying to predict what the competitors were gonna do."

Maxime Argillier

ESSEC Business School

"I think the most interesting part of the competition was that it was very international. Even though it was a European qualifier, we could see that many participants were not European, for example in my case. That is very interesting that we could just compare our abilities to other universities. That was pretty fun."

Jaewoo Jung

IQS School of Management

"It’s a great experience. People will learn to work in teams together. Also, for anybody who wants to be in the business world this would be beneficial. It would give them the basis of working in teams, collaborating, brainstorming and then actually thinking strategically."

Faycal Ibrahim

EM Strasbourg Business School

Register your team

Deadline 16 April 2027. Complete the form to start registration — we’ll reply with the next steps for team details and possible payment.

Only one person per team fills in the form.

Institutions sponsoring teams: the form must be filled in by a faculty member.

Student associations and self-registering students: enter the team representative’s details and your school.

All members must be enrolled in a higher education institution during the competition. Proof of enrollment may be requested.

Registration opens 1 October 2026.

Registration has closed. See the results in the Hall of Fame.

From student to CEO in 7 days

What is Cesim Elite?

What your team does

The path to the top

Register

EMEA Qualifier

International Grand Final

Experience & benefits

Real business decisions

Real teamwork

Compete across borders

CV boost