Here’s your chance to impress the car industry’s top engineers

The Daimler Student Innovation Competition is looking for 30 young engineers to predict what the brakes of the future will look like and travel to Germany to explain their ideas to an audience of hundreds of the industry’s leading figures from around the world.

Finalists who make it to EuroBrake, which claims to be the world’s largest braking conference and exhibition, will also attend a Q&A session with high-level industry executives and receive a private tour of the host city Dresden, with €300 (£225) each to cover travel expenses. A panel of judges will pick three overall winners to win a further €500 (£375) each.

‘The prestige of being one of the 30 winners, that’s a CV exclusive,’ said Chris Mason, head of the organisation behind the conference and the competition, FISITA (the International Federation of Automotive Engineering Societies).

‘[The finalists] get to demonstrate their vision and talent in front of an audience of several hundred executives from the automotive sector… Who knows where your career will lead you when you get an opportunity like that?’