Build a better future with the Exploring Entrepreneurship Challenge
What is the EEC?
The Exploring Entrepreneurship Challenge is your chance to
- gain new skills that can help you become more employable
- meet new people as you join a team and collaborate to create an idea for a sustainable future
- develop your idea with mentors, boosting your confidence
- pitch your idea and compete for £2k prize money.
Who is it for?
Everyone. You don’t need any previous experience, or to have an idea or team in mind before you begin.
Sign up by 10 October.
What can I expect?
September
Decide whether you want to take part
- in your spare time (as an extra-curricular activity)
- for credit as part of your degree.
If you want to take part for credit and you have a 20-credit gap in your workload you can combine a 10-credit bearing version of the Challenge with our 10-credit elective module Exploring Entrepreneurial Thinking, and learn how to reach your personal and professional goals using an entrepreneurial mindset.
NB: You do not need to be part of the Business School to participate.
Make sure to sign up by 10 October.
October
Join us at our launch on 14 October at 5pm and learn how to take an entrepreneurial approach to solving problems. Meet new people from all faculties as you join a team.
Then, collaborate with students to generate ideas for a sustainable future at our workshops on 19 October and 28 October.
November
Work with expert input to create, perfect and submit a pitch of your idea by the deadline of 10 November and join us at a lunchtime social to celebrate completing your submission.
Three teams will be chosen to compete for a prize fund of £2,000!
Ready to begin? Sign up now.
I’ve got to meet people from different backgrounds, people who are studying different things, and we’ve had the opportunity to bring our brains together and come up with some amazing ideas. The biggest thing I’ve learned is that entrepreneurship is not just about starting a business, but it’s actually your mindset and who you are as a person.
Natasha Chitambo is studying Law & Human Resource Management and was part of the team who won the EEC in 2023-24.