For applicants

Always Know Where Your Application Stands

One page per application: where it stands, what comes next, then your letter, offer and certificate. A link in your inbox signs you in.One page for each application: where it is, when to expect news and what the programme needs from you, then your letter, your offer and your certificate. No password to remember; a link in your inbox signs you in.

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A student on campus steps checks an application on his phone with a friend at his shoulder, and a card beside them shows the status steps ticked off one by one.

From Applying to a Decision

What applying to a programme that runs on IdeaScore looks like, step by step.

Apply
A form that saves as you go
Steps, a countdown to the deadline, and your answers kept on every device once you sign in.
Submitted
A case number
A confirmation with your case number, and a copy to the lead contact's email.
In review
You are here
Every stage of the programme, and the date to expect news from its own timetable.
Interview
Book your own slot
Pick a free time, add it to your calendar, and cancel up to 24 hours before.
Decision
Your letter and your offer
The letter as sent, Accept or Decline by the date, and your certificate when it is issued.

Status page

Where your application is, in a few words

The top line says where you are and when to expect news, every stage is listed, and You are here marks yours.Open an application and the top line says where you are, such as Your application is being reviewed, with the one thing that matters now: Decisions expected by, and a date from the programme's own timetable. Every stage is listed, with You are here on yours. If that date passes without news, the page says Expected soon rather than show a date that has gone by.

Your next step, with its due date and a button to do it
No scores, rankings or reviewers before a decision
Edit your answers while the call is open, if the programme allows it

An applicant's status page for Meridian Seed Fund 2026 Cohort III: You're in Screening, with the tracker from Submitted through Screening to the Final and the Decision, and Nothing to do right now. — The applicant's status page, mid-way through Screening.

Applying

A form that keeps your place

Steps, a countdown, answers saved as you go on every device, and a case number when you submit.The application form comes in steps, with a countdown to the deadline, and your answers save as you go: on this device, and on any device once you sign in. Review everything before you submit and get a confirmation with your case number. Lost the link back to a draft? Ask for it again with your email.

No third-party trackers or advertising cookies
Your IP address is never stored
A copy of the confirmation goes to the lead contact

The Meridian Seed Fund 2026 application form, with its six steps and the first questions. — Applicants apply through a clear, step-by-step form.

Decision

Accept or decline, on your own time

Your letter as sent, how long your place is held, and Accept or Decline, which you can change until that date.When the decision is out, the letter the programme emailed you is on the page, with the date it was sent. If you are selected and the programme asks for a reply, the page says how long your place is held. Choose Accept the offer or Decline the offer, add a note if you like, and change your answer until that date.

Not selected? The organisation's other open calls, and your answers kept to reuse
Feedback from the programme, when it chooses to share it
Selected: 40 of 312 is a count, never your position

An applicant's offer page on a phone: You've been selected, and the letter from Meridian Research Park as it was emailed. — The decision letter, exactly as it was emailed.

Interviews

Book your interview yourself

Pick a free time, add it to your calendar, and cancel up to 24 hours before to pick again.When you are invited to an interview, choose a free time on the interview card. Once booked, it shows the date, the time and the place or join link, with Add to calendar for Google Calendar and Outlook. Need to change it? Cancel the booking up to 24 hours before and pick another time.

Online interviews show the join link once booked
In-person interviews show the place
Your pitch slot appears the same way when the programme shows one

Meridian Research Park· Your applications

Your interview

Booked

Interview with the selection panel

Tue 13 Oct · 11:30 IST

Online · join link on this card

Other free times that day

10:30
11:00
12:00

You can cancel and pick again until 24 hours before.

Certificates

A certificate anyone can check

Download your certificate and share it. Its QR code opens a page anyone can use to check it is real.When the programme issues you a certificate, Your certificate is ready shows a preview with Download your certificate (PDF) and Open the verification page. Every certificate carries a QR code and an ID: whoever scans it sees who it was issued to, the programme, the organisation and whether it is valid, never your email address.

Every certificate under Certificates in your portal
An issued certificate always verifies
A revoked one says so

An applicant's certificate page on a phone: Your certificate is ready, a Certificate of Selection with its code, Download your certificate (PDF) and Open the verification page. — The certificate, its code and the page anyone can use to check it.

Your data

Your data, on your terms

Ask for a copy of your data or its deletion, answered within 30 days, and see whether IdeaScore AI helped the reviewers.Under Your personal data you can ask for a copy of your data or for it to be deleted, signed in with the email on your application. The programme answers within 30 days, and you are emailed to confirm. At the foot of every page, About IdeaScore AI says whether IdeaScore AI helped the reviewers, and how it is used.

A copy holds your applications, answers, emails and files
Deletion removes your details, date of birth included; scores stay fair for everyone else
Withdraw an application while it waits for screening

Meridian Research Park· Your applications

Your personal data

Ask for a copy of your data

Every application, your answers, emails and files

Ask for your data to be deleted

Your details removed; scores stay fair for others

Answered within 30 days. We email you to confirm.

About IdeaScore AI

IdeaScore AI helped the reviewers read applications to this programme. People made every decision.

How IdeaScore AI is used

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The foot of an applicant's page on a phone: About IdeaScore AI, saying it helped the reviewers read the application and that people make every decision, with a link to how IdeaScore AI is used. — About IdeaScore AI, at the foot of every applicant page.

IdeaScore AI and Your Application

Some programmes use IdeaScore AI to help their reviewers read. Here is what that means for you.

Each organisation decides whether its programmes use IdeaScore AI, and can switch it off for the whole organisation or for one programme.

You are told
About IdeaScore AI, at the foot of your pages, says whether it helped the reviewers of your application.
With a link to how IdeaScore AI is used
Your name stays with the programme
Names and contact details are swapped for labels before IdeaScore AI reads anything.
IdeaScore puts them back only for people allowed to see them
People decide
IdeaScore AI does the reading. The programme's own people make every decision.
Your page never shows a score before the decision

What It Takes Off Your Plate

Remembering a password
A sign-in link to your inbox, every time.
Retyping a lost draft
Your answers save as you go, and a resume link brings them back.
Wondering when you will hear
Decisions expected by, from the programme's own timetable.
Emailing to book an interview
Free slots to pick from, with Add to calendar.
Proving you took part
A certificate with a QR code anyone can check.
Chasing your data
A copy or deletion, answered within 30 days.
Keeping track of several calls
Your Applications lists every programme you applied to.
Answering a question by email
Reply to request when the programme asks for more information.
Sending a deck by email
Upload pitch deck when a round asks, replaceable until the deadline.

Remembering a password
A sign-in link to your inbox, every time.
Retyping a lost draft
Your answers save as you go, and a resume link brings them back.
Wondering when you will hear
Decisions expected by, from the programme's own timetable.
Emailing to book an interview
Free slots to pick from, with Add to calendar.
Proving you took part
A certificate with a QR code anyone can check.
Chasing your data
A copy or deletion, answered within 30 days.
Keeping track of several calls
Your Applications lists every programme you applied to.
Answering a question by email
Reply to request when the programme asks for more information.
Sending a deck by email
Upload pitch deck when a round asks, replaceable until the deadline.

Questions Applicants Ask

With the email you applied with: a sign-in link arrives in your inbox, and Your Applications lists every programme you have applied to. If you lost the link back to a draft, open the programme's application address with /resume on the end and ask for your link again.

No. IdeaScore is the software the programme uses; the organisation runs the programme, sets the dates and makes the decisions. Questions about your application go to the programme, which you can contact from your application's card.

The programme's own people. Some programmes use IdeaScore AI to help their reviewers read, and About IdeaScore AI at the foot of your pages says when it did. IdeaScore AI never makes the decision.

Not before a decision: the page never shows scores, rankings or who is reviewing your application. Afterwards you see only what the programme chose to share with your team, such as feedback or a published score.

While the call is open and the programme allows changes, Edit your answers is on your status page, with the date it closes. Details are locked once screening is complete or a decision has been made.

Choose Your data under Your personal data in the applicant portal and ask for a copy or a deletion. The programme answers within 30 days, and you are emailed to confirm.

Scan its QR code, or open the verification page with the ID printed beside it. The page shows who it was issued to, the programme, the organisation and whether it is valid or revoked, never your email address.

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From Applying to a Decision

ApplyA form that saves as you go
SubmittedA case number
In reviewYou are here
InterviewBook your own slot
DecisionYour letter and your offer

What IdeaScore Gives an Applicant

Where your application is, in a few words

The top line says where you are and when to expect news, every stage is listed, and You are here marks yours.

Your next step, with its due date and a button to do it
No scores, rankings or reviewers before a decision