University Competitions
MSc Entrepreneurship Pitch DayThe MSc Entrepreneurship Pitch Day is a dynamic event where MSc Entrepreneurship students from UCL School of Management present their start-up ideas in a competitive setting, vying for cash prizes aimed at accelerating their business ventures. VIEW PROJECT |
Grand ChallengeThe Grand Challenge is a three-week project where students work in cross-disciplinary and cross-year teams to conceptualise, design and produce a product (in line with CDIO). They produce a business case, and a promotional video and demonstrate their prototype at a trade show event to peers, staff and industry contacts. Each group is assigned a member of staff as a non-executive director, and there are industry talks, masterclasses on business and media, and a technical helpdesk available to support them. VIEW PROJECT |
Green Tech JamThe Green Tech Jam runs over 12 weeks, engaging Computer Science students in a series of lectures, practical workshops, and guest talks. Students collaborate in teams to develop web applications with a focus on social impact. These web applications address specific problem statements aligned with one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aiming to create tangible solutions for real-world challenges. VIEW PROJECT |
Electrical and Electronic Engineers in Business CompetitionIn this competition, working in teams, students propose an innovation, service or product idea relating to the Information Technology, Electronics and Computing sector that they believe could be commercialised. The proposed business idea should aim to generate at least £50,000 of income in the first year of trading and break even within three years. VIEW PROJECT |
Foundation Year Business Case for EngineersThis competition is designed for Foundation Year students to broaden their awareness of the future careers and opportunities that studying engineering and physics can lead to. VIEW PROJECT |
New Enterprise CompetitionThe New Enterprise Competition is a flagship in the University of Bristol’s business idea challenge opportunities. Run annually, participants can win a packages of support totally £35,000. Prizes include cash, legal support, marketing, business acceleration services support and bespoke mentoring. VIEW PROJECT |
Researcher to InnovatorThe Researcher to Innovator programme at The University of Manchester aims to inspire and accelerate the translation of the knowledge created through final year undergraduates, postgraduates and early career research projects into products, services or processes to deliver tangible benefit through a series of bespoke workshops and mentoring opportunities. VIEW PROJECT |
Ingenuity Impact - National CompetitionIngenuity Impact is a national innovation and entrepreneurship programme that directly addresses the UK’s major social, health and environmental challenges through the creation of impactful start-ups. The programme is inclusive, diverse and accessible for all and supports students, alumni and community members nationally to turn ideas for change into exciting new ventures. Now in its ninth year, the programme is designed to demystify entrepreneurship and support underserved and underrepresented groups to engage by adopting an agile and flexible approach. VIEW PROJECT |
FlareThe University of Hertfordshire’s enterprise ideas challenge, Flare, is a highly competitive annual competition that gives student and alumni entrepreneurs the support and training they need to bring their business ideas to life, no matter how far along they are in development. VIEW PROJECT |
ElevateUniversity of Exeter’s annual Elevate competition is designed to encourage and support engineers who want to take their ideas from the drawing board to the marketplace. Solo and interdisciplinary teams entered from across the University, with eligible applicants including current and recently graduated engineering and computer science students as individual applicants or teams that contain at least one engineering or computer science student. VIEW PROJECT |
Ingenuity ImpactIngenuity Impact is a national innovation and entrepreneurship programme that directly addresses the UK’s major social, health and environmental challenges through the creation of impactful start-ups. The programme is inclusive, diverse and accessible for all and supports students, alumni and community members nationally to turn ideas for change into exciting new ventures. Now in its ninth year, the programme is designed to demystify entrepreneurship and support underserved and underrepresented groups to engage by adopting an agile and flexible approach. VIEW PROJECT |
Engineering You're HiredEngineering You’re Hired is an intensive one week activity that is compulsory for all second years within the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sheffield. Students choose a problem to fix and are then placed in multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural teams to work on a conceptual design and a plan for a project to take the design to the proof of concept stage. VIEW PROJECT |
WE InnovateWE Innovate, organised by Imperial Enterprise Lab, Imperial College London’s dedicated entrepreneurship training centre, is an annual six-month programme and competition championing women-led teams with an entrepreneurial idea to explore. This year’s programme supported the development of up to 25 teams through masterclasses, business coaching, one-to-one expert support, peer mentoring and much more. The programme is divided into three phases, during which the teams compete to become one of the five finalists and pitch the WE Innovate final for a share of the £30,000 prize fund. VIEW PROJECT |
Science and Engineering ChallengeManchester Metropolitan University’s competition brought together some of the brightest minds from its science, engineering, business and law faculties. The competition, organised by MYY Venture Capital, aims to scout AI and data science startups and ideas with the potential to deliver innovative solutions with an emphasis on ground-breaking technology, scalable business models, and a clear path to market fit. VIEW PROJECT |
Eureka!Eureka! is a new enterprise competition for engineering students, researchers and recent alumni who have an innovative idea that addresses the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in some way. The competition is timed to provide a pathway from the engineering degree’s second year entrepreneurship module, to give students an opportunity to build on their ideas and take them a step further. It forms part of King’s College London’s commitment to create engineers who are changemakers. VIEW PROJECT |
Enterprise Hub BursariesEnterprise Hub Bursaries (funded by Santander Universities, Engineers in Business Fellowship, Ulster University Alumni Donor and Research & Innovation) are available annually to provide equity free seed funding to encourage student entrepreneurial activity at Ulster University. Enterprise Hub Bursaries of £1,500 are available to help student entrepreneurs develop a business idea or to support a new start up business (pre start up or trading two years or under). VIEW PROJECT |
Spring StartUp AwardsCardiff University’s Spring StartUp Awards are open to all students and recent graduates who are working on a business idea anywhere from idea generation right through to already running their business. Engineering students have a dedicated category, giving students the chance to pitch for funding to help turn their ideas into a reality. VIEW PROJECT |
Setty Family Foundation Net Zero Energy DesignArchitects and engineers worked together in Loughborough University’s challenge to create a ‘net zero’ building located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Teams worked together to determine building orientation, layout, materials, mechanical systems, and electrical systems that meet the client’s needs and work with the surrounding environment to minimise energy consumption. VIEW PROJECT |
Dragons' DenQUB’s Dragons’ Den, competition is one of many initiatives organised by SU Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of Queen’s Students’ Union which helps students develop enterprise skills and start their own businesses. Dragons’ Den competitors develop a wealth of business skills including pitching, marketing, finance and legal issues. VIEW PROJECT |
UHI Business CompetitionThe University of the Highlands and Islands Business Competition is open to everyone over the age of 16 living within the Highlands and Islands region, including students at all 13 colleges and research centres within the University of the Highlands and Islands partnership. Since the competition was established in 2006, entrants have used it as a platform to share their ideas, receive support and launch their entrepreneurial careers. VIEW PROJECT |
Recognising Engineering ExcellenceUlster University’s competition allows engineering students to showcase their thesis research endeavours, with prizes handed out after assessment from academic staff as well the public and student body. In addition to Engineering in Business sponsorship, the competition is also supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering and Women in STEM. VIEW PROJECT |
Starting A BusinessThe Starting a Business event was the culmination of nine weeks of learning through lectures and practical workshop sessions, offered to University of Warwick engineering students. The final business ideas presented were from a diverse group of engineering students from myriad engineering disciplines, with each group consisting of six or seven members. VIEW PROJECT |
Dragons' DenThe University of York’s Business, Innovation and Enterprise Dragon’s Den event was the culmination of 12 weeks of learning through lectures and practical workshop sessions, offered to students from any department and any academic level of study. VIEW PROJECT |
Bath Beyond BoundariesThe University of Bath’s Engineering Challenge saw students take part in a series of workshops on enterprise, entrepreneurship and inclusive leadership before competing in teams to win a share of the £2,950 prize pot. VIEW PROJECT |
EntrepreneurshipImperial College Business School students designed a business based on gaps they saw in the market and issues relevant to their communities. Students were required to develop a pitch deck and video tape how they pitched the business, as well as test critical hypotheses of their business through a set of experiences that they detailed in a final playbook. VIEW PROJECT |
VentureVenture is Scotland’s largest university funding competition for new business ideas. It is a three-stage competition for all University of Dundee students, staff and recent graduates split across different prize fund categories, with a total prize pot of £78,500 (£1,000 contributed from Engineers in Business). VIEW PROJECT |
Enterprise ChallengeThe Enterprise Challenge is a the University of Greenwich’s annual competition that provides mentoring, training and funding for entrepreneurial students who want to pursue a business idea. All students and recent graduates of up to two years are eligible to apply. Ideas are split between a Social Stream (for businesses that have a positive environmental or social impact) and a Commercial Stream (for general business ideas). VIEW PROJECT |
Invent for the PlanetInvent for the Planet (IFTP) is an innovation fostering 48-hour global collaborative competition, where students from almost 40 universities, including Swansea University, come together to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing our planet. VIEW PROJECT |
Bright IdeasBright Ideas is Kingston University’s annual competition designed to give students the opportunity to gain more confidence in ideation, developing and presenting an idea. Open to any students of any faculty at any level, the competition allows students to attend innovation workshops, have an idea evaluated and win a prize as they start their entrepreneurial journey. VIEW PROJECT |
Engineers in Business HackathonWith a focus on sustainability, climate change and community the De Montfort University hackathon tackled the issue of temperate rises in high rise buildings. Splitting in to smaller groups students had a week to identify and work on a solution for temperature monitoring and solutions to combat the issues and create community buy in. VIEW PROJECT |
General Engineering Dragon's DenCanterbury Christ Church University partnered with local bespoke shopfitting firm, the Sublime Group, to set students the challenge of drastically reducing the installation time of Sublime’s custom designs, traditionally spanning two weeks. VIEW PROJECT |
Engineering Business IdeasThe Engineering Business Ideas competition run by Edinburgh Innovations offers students and recent graduates from the University of Edinburgh the opportunity to win a share of £1,000 to help make their engineering business ideas a startup reality. VIEW PROJECT |
Health Innovation ChallengeThis is a new competition, exclusively for students from the Aston University College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, in particular students studying mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, product design and computer science. It is designed to encourage students to be both innovative and enterprising, through developing creative ways of bringing more innovation and technology into the health sector. VIEW PROJECT |
Business Development ProjectSecond year engineering students at Lancaster University develop ideas for business opportunities through the core ‘ENGR205 Business Development Project’ module. VIEW PROJECT |
Mayor's Entrepreneur CompetitionFirst year undergraduate students at London South Bank University’s School of Engineering undertook a group design project for their Design and Practice module. Students were tasked with developing business ideas that solved real problems London is facing. VIEW PROJECT |
Student Enterprise Fund: Concept to CreationThe University of Southampton runs prize fund competitions for students wanting to develop a business or social enterprise, with the Engineers in Business providing a component of this funding to students from Engineering & Physical Sciences. The university also gave students the opportunity to work with a design agency to develop a physical prototype of their innovation. VIEW PROJECT |
Leading Engineering EndeavoursThe Leading Engineering Endeavours Project is undertaken by second year engineering students at Birmingham City University (BCU). A total of 101 students took part this year, put into interdisciplinary teams drawn from mechanical, automotive, electronic and manufacturing disciplines. The teams were set a challenge by the Rivers Trust to design and prototype a low-cost solution for monitoring soil health. VIEW PROJECT |
WE InnovateWE Innovate – organised by Imperial Enterprise Lab, Imperial College London’s dedicated entrepreneurship training centre – is an annual six-month programme and competition championing women-led teams with an entrepreneurial idea to explore. Teams are supported with masterclasses, business coaching, 1-to-1 expert support, peer mentoring and much more. VIEW PROJECT |
Bright Ideas ChallengeThe Bright Ideas Challenge is an elevator pitch competition open to Durham University’s engineering, computer science or bioscience students, or multi-disciplinary teams comprising students from these degree categories. VIEW PROJECT |
Fourth Year Poster CompetitionThe University of Oxford’s Business Innovation award aims to reward engineers who develop ingenious ideas that could solve real problems in society in a sustainable manner. Projects are needs-led, have a strong market fit or have a well defined problem with a clear costumer base for which an innovative solution is developed. VIEW PROJECT |
New Enterprise CompetitionThe New Enterprise Competition is the University of Bristol’s flagship business idea challenge fund. Run annually, participants can win up to £35,000 in prize funding, in part sponsored by Engineers in Business. Prizes include cash, legal support, marketing, business acceleration services support and bespoke mentoring. The competition has been run for more than 20 years and is open to all entrepreneurially inclined students and recent alumni across the university. VIEW PROJECT |
UoB Engineers in Business CompetitionUniversity of Birmingham engineering students entered into a competition to help solve real problems in society through engineering. Teams and individuals from across the university competed to win a share of a prize pot to help bring their ideas to life. VIEW PROJECT |
TEDI-London Summer SchoolThe TEDI-London Summer School is the provider’s annual international design sprint, welcoming their founding partners’ students as well as other students in full-time higher education. The students spend three weeks immersing themselves in a set topic on its Canada Water campus. This year’s theme imagined the future of Canada Water, centred around the global challenges of transport. The challenge: how to provide seamless, safe, net zero, connected, cost-effective, accessible and reliable transport solutions for the community, from young to old, and including visitors to the area. VIEW PROJECT |
FlareThe University of Hertfordshire’s enterprise ideas challenge, Flare, is a highly competitive annual competition that gives Herts student and alumni entrepreneurs the support and training they need to bring their business ideas to life, no matter how far along they are in development. VIEW PROJECT |
IngenuityThe Ingenuity Programme provides start-up skills and training, networking, mentoring, and routes to funding for early-stage impact-driven businesses to make social and environmental change. VIEW PROJECT |
Foundation Year “Business Case for Engineers” ProjectThe Business Case for An Engineering Design Proposal is an assessed component of the ENG0014 Engineering and Physical Sciences Laboratory and Project module. This project provides foundation students with an insight into the entrepreneurial aspects and the multi-disciplinary nature of engineering and science and enhances skills in a variety of areas including presentation, working collaboratively, managing deadlines, and idea generation. Students worked in groups to make a business case for an engineering, IT, communications, or physical sciences-based idea. VIEW PROJECT |
Engineering You’re HiredEngineering You’re Hired is an intensive one-week (35-hour) activity that is compulsory for all second years within the Faculty of Engineering. VIEW PROJECT |
BUSI60042 Entrepreneurship OnlineImperial College Business School’s Entrepreneurship Online (BUSI60042) allows students to design a business based on gaps they saw in the market and issues relevant to their communities. VIEW PROJECT |
Business CompetitionThe UHI Business Competition is an annual flagship event run by CREATE, the Highlands and Islands hub for Enterprise and Innovation based in the Centre for Living Sustainability at UHI Inverness. VIEW PROJECT |
ElevateThe University of Exeter’s Elevate competition encourages and supports engineers who want to take their ideas from the drawing board to the market. It is a unique opportunity for student engineers to access targeted early-stage venture creation support, exploring innovation beyond their curricular project-based learning. VIEW PROJECT |
Dragons' DenQUB’s Dragons’ Den, competition is one of many initiatives organised by SU Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of Queen’s Students’ Union which helps students develop enterprise skills and start their own businesses. VIEW PROJECT |
Ingenuity National CompetitionThe Ingenuity Programme provides start-up skills and training, networking, mentoring, and routes to funding for early-stage impact-driven businesses to make social and environmental change. The programme supports participants in turning ideas for change into exciting new ventures and adopts an agile and flexible approach to ensure we are diverse, inclusive and accessible CDIO). VIEW PROJECT |
Grand ChallengeThe Grand Challenge is a three-week project where students work in cross-disciplinary and cross-year teams to conceptualise, design and produce a product (in line with CDIO). VIEW PROJECT |
Surrey Electrical and Electronic Engineers in Business CompetitionThe University of Surrey’s Enterprise Project embraces the Surrey Electrical and Electronic Engineers in Business Competition. The Enterprise Project is a year-long group project carried out by second-year students from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Surrey. Students work in groups to create innovative concepts relating to the Information Communications Technology, Electronics and Computing sectors that have the potential for commercialisation. VIEW PROJECT |
MSc Entrepreneurship Pitch Day: Innovating Engineers ChallengeThe MSc Entrepreneurship Pitch Day competition fosters small teams of MSc Entrepreneurship and other UCL Engineering students to create innovative business ideas. VIEW PROJECT |
Big Ideas CompetitionCardiff Metropolitan University’s Big Idea Award is one of six categories featured in our Entrepreneurship Awards which takes place on our annual Day of Entrepreneurship. VIEW PROJECT |
VentureVenture is Scotland’s largest university funding competition for new business ideas. Venture is a three-stage new business idea competition for all University of Dundee Students, Staff and Recent Graduates split across different prize fund categories. VIEW PROJECT |
BUSI60041 Entrepreneurship ModuleImperial College Business School’s Entrepreneurship module (BUSI60041) allows students to design a business based on gaps they saw in the market and issues relevant to their communities. VIEW PROJECT |
Bright IdeasBright Ideas is Kingston University’s annual entrepreneurial competition, open to all students across the university. VIEW PROJECT |
Spring Start-Up AwardsThis year Cardiff University run three different awards as part of its Spring Start-Up Awards this year: Inspired Engineer, Social Enterprise and Go Getter. Each category reflected the stage of development of each entrant’s business idea. Engineers and computer scientists applied for all three of the award categories depending on which award they felt best matched the stage of development of their business idea. VIEW PROJECT |
Starting a Business ModuleThe University of Warwick’s Starting a Business module examines how businesses are established. The module gives second-year Engineering Undergraduates the opportunity to understand and appreciate the challenges involved in setting up their own business. VIEW PROJECT |
InvEnterPrize Student Ideas CompetitionInvEnterPrize is Aberystwyth University’s Student Ideas Competition which is open to undergraduates, post-graduates and recent graduates. The competition rewards the entrant with the Best Business Idea. VIEW PROJECT |
Solar Decathlon Design Challenge & Setty Family Foundation Net Zero Energy DesignThe Solar Decathlon Design Challenge is an annual collegiate competition that challenges teams to design highly efficient, innovative, and sustainable buildings that are powered by renewable energy sources. The competition is organised by the US Department of Energy and involves ten contests that cover various aspects of building design and performance, such as architecture, engineering, energy production, and market potential. The challenge encourages interdisciplinary collaboration and provides students with a hands-on learning experience in sustainable design and construction. VIEW PROJECT |
Edinburgh Innovations Business Idea CompetitionThe Business Idea Competition for Engineering Students and Graduates is run annually by the University’s commercialisation service, Edinburgh Innovations, and invites students to pitch their business ideas and win up to £1,000 to launch their innovation. VIEW PROJECT |
The Dragons' DenThe University of York’s Business Innovation & Entrepreneurship course provides broad coverage of what’s involved in the exploitation of technologies through innovation and entrepreneurship and incorporates the Dragons’ Den Competition. VIEW PROJECT |
Invent for the PlanetInvent for the Planet (IFTP) is an innovation fostering 48-hour global collaborative hackathon, in which students from 27+ universities come together to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing our planet. VIEW PROJECT |
King's College London Engineers in Business CompetitionThe Idea Factory is King’s College London’s flagship idea generation competition! The competition aims to nurture the biggest and best ideas from across the university that have the potential to grow into ventures. VIEW PROJECT |
UCL MSc Entrepreneurship Pitch DayThe MSc Entrepreneurship at UCL School of Management is UCL’s flagship Entrepreneurial course. During a one-year programme designed for students who intend to start and run high-impact businesses, they learn to research and develop new ideas. VIEW PROJECT |
University of Oxford Engineers in Business CompetitionThe Maurice Lubbock Poster Competition provides an amazing platform for students to showcase their innovations to representatives from industry and Government, alumni, academics and fellow students who attend the Lubbock Lecture. VIEW PROJECT |
University of Birmingham Engineers in Business CompetitionBirmingham University’s Engineers in Business Competition is one of the many initiatives the Careers Network B-Enterprising Team offers to support enterprising and entrepreneurial students. VIEW PROJECT |
Second Year Engineering Module - ENGR205 Business Development ProjectLancaster University’s Second Year Engineering Module (ENGR205 Business Development Project) covers a range of material on student entrepreneurship, innovation, idea generation, business planning, marketing, presenting and pitching, using tools such as the Business Model Canvas, and various external and industrial speakers to supplement and reinforce the taught theory. VIEW PROJECT |
Innovation Fest - Leading Engineering Endeavours ProjectThe Leading Engineering Endeavours Project is undertaken by second-year engineering students at Birmingham City University (BCU). Students work in interdisciplinary teams drawn from mechanical, automotive, electronic, and manufacturing disciplines. The teams were set a challenge by the Environment Agency to design and prototype a low-cost anemometer. The context was to provide a means of measuring air pollution dispersion in urban environments by using a network of anemometers. VIEW PROJECT |
Bright IdeasBright Ideas is Kingston University’s annual entrepreneurial competition, open to all students across the university. VIEW PROJECT |
Entrepreneurship Online and EntrepreneurshipImperial College Business School provides two undergraduate entrepreneurship courses for undergraduate engineers and scientists. The courses are Entrepreneurship Online and Entrepreneurship (face-to-face). VIEW PROJECT |
The Mayor's Entrepreneurs Competition: Design & Practice ModuleLondon South Bank University (LSBU) supports student applications to The Mayor’s Entrepreneurs Competition. The Mayor’s Entrepreneurs Competition is a prestigious competition that allows entrants to demonstrate a combination of engineering and entrepreneurial excellence. LSBU’s Engineering School has an embedded programme called Design and Practice which introduces enterprise to engineers – this programme is supported by the Engineers in Business prize fund. The goal is to support as many quality applications as possible to go forward in The Mayor’s Entrepreneurs Competition. VIEW PROJECT |
Business Case for An Engineering Design ProposalThe Business Case for An Engineering Design Proposal is an assessed component of the ENG0014 Engineering and Physical Sciences Laboratory and Project module. This project provides foundation students with an insight into the entrepreneurial aspects and the multi-disciplinary nature of engineering and science, and enhances skills in a variety of areas including presentation, working collaboratively, managing deadlines, and idea generation. VIEW PROJECT |
Surrey Electrical and Electronic Engineers in Business CompetitionThe Surrey Electrical and Electronic Engineers in Business Competition provides an opportunity for students to enhance their business awareness, build entrepreneurial skills and develop transferable skills such as team working, project management, presentation, negotiation and leadership. VIEW PROJECT |
SEED Startup Fund CompetitionThe University of Southampton’s SEED Start-Up Funding Competition supports students in the creation and development of early-stage businesses or social enterprises through the awarding of funding prizes. Students have to submit business plans and video pitches before being shortlisted to pitch in front of a panel of judges. The Engineers in Business Competition has been integrated into the SEED Fund to engage more engineers and students with engineering-related business ideas to develop their own start-up businesses. VIEW PROJECT |
Flare IgniteFlare Ignite is a highly competitive annual competition that gives Herts students and alumni entrepreneurial support and training to bring their business ideas to life. VIEW PROJECT |
New Enterprise CompetitionThe University of Bristol’s New Enterprise Competition (NEC) is a business start-up competition that allows students, staff and alumni to pitch for a share of £35,000, legal support and business acceleration services, to develop a commercial or social enterprise. VIEW PROJECT |
The Capstone ProjectThe University of East London’s Capstone Project is designed for final-year students in the Engineering and Construction clusters at the School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering. A Capstone Project must include evidence that students have ‘applied analytical judgement’ in the context of an engineering or construction-related subject. Projects are assessed based on three tasks: the Development of a Project Plan, a Project Written Report and an Oral Presentation of the Report. VIEW PROJECT |
WE InnovateWE Innovate is Imperial’s flagship female entrepreneurship education programme designed to support the next generation of women entrepreneurs to accelerate their startups. VIEW PROJECT |
Big PitchThe Big Pitch is Anglia Ruskin University’s annual business ideas competition exclusively for undergraduate and postgraduate students, from any faculty or core campus. VIEW PROJECT |
Inspired Engineer AwardThe Inspired Engineers Award seeks to encourage and promote entrepreneurial and commercial thinking among student engineers. VIEW PROJECT |
IngenuityThe Ingenuity Programme works with students, graduates and under-represented communities to help create exciting new ventures that can create significant social and environmental impact. The annual programme is designed to find local-but-scalable solutions to build stronger communities, improve health and tackle climate change. Rooted in the University of Nottingham’s commitment to civic entrepreneurship, Ingenuity and its partners provide skills and training, mentoring, networking and funding to early-stage social enterprises.
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Bright Ideas ChallengeThe Bright Ideas Challenge is an elevator pitch competition open to Durham University’s Engineering, Computer Science or Bioscience students, or multi-disciplinary teams comprising students from these degree categories. VIEW PROJECT |
Engineering You're HiredEngineering You’re Hired is an intensive one-week activity that is compulsory for all second years within the Faculty of Engineering. Students choose their problem and are then placed in multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural teams to work on a conceptual design and a plan for a project to take the design to the proof of concept stage. VIEW PROJECT |
University of the Highlands and Islands Business CompetitionThe University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) Business Competition is a well-established and high-profile competition open to all students across 13 UHI sites. The competition reaches out through a broad regional marketing campaign to approximately 40,000 FE, HE and Postgraduate students and researchers based in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, with a strong focus on supporting students both at the application, shortlisting and post-competition stage. VIEW PROJECT |
Grand ChallengeNottingham Trent University’s Grand Challenge is a three-week project where students work in cross-disciplinary and cross-year teams to conceptualise, design and produce a product (in line with CDIO). VIEW PROJECT |
Engineering Design CompetitionCanterbury Christ Church University provides its engineering students with a higher education experience that equips them for success with their aspirations and in making a wider contribution to society, beyond graduation. VIEW PROJECT |
Dragons' DenQueen’s University Belfast’s Dragons’ Den, competition is one of many initiatives organised by Enterprise SU, the entrepreneurial arm of Queen’s Students’ Union which helps students develop enterprise skills and start their own businesses. Dragons’ Den competitors learn a wealth of business skills including pitching, marketing, finance and legal issues. VIEW PROJECT |
Starting a BusinessThe University of Warwick’s Starting a Business module examines how businesses are established. The module gives second-year Engineering Undergraduates the opportunity to understand and appreciate the challenges involved in setting up their own business. VIEW PROJECT |
ElevateElevate 2022 was the University of Exeter’s fourth year participating in the Engineers in Business Competition and was led by the Student Startups Team. VIEW PROJECT |
Student Ideas CompetitionInvEnterPrize is Aberystwyth University’s Student Ideas Competition which is open to undergraduates, post-graduates and recent graduates. The competition rewards the entrant with the ‘Best Business Idea’ VIEW PROJECT |
Enterprise ChallengeThe University of Greenwich runs the Enterprise Challenge, an annual competition that provides mentoring, training and funding for entrepreneurial students who want to pursue an idea. VIEW PROJECT |
Business Innovation & EntrepreneurshipThe University of York’s Business Innovation & Entrepreneurship course provides broad coverage of what’s involved in the exploitation of technologies through innovation and entrepreneurship. VIEW PROJECT |
Global Design ChallengeThe Global Design Challenge (GDC) module is compulsory for all first-year students studying Engineering, Informatics and Product Design at the School of Engineering and Informatics and students studying Computing and Engineering at the International Study Centre. VIEW PROJECT |
VentureThis is the fourth Venture competition supported by Engineers in Business. Venture is an annual business idea competition for University of Dundee students, staff and recent graduates, with eight categories. VIEW PROJECT |