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 Friday 30 January.
What can I expect?
January
Get started by enrolling on our Exploring Entrepreneurship Challenge MyPlace and exploring the information about the Challenge there.
You don’t need any previous experience, or an idea or team to join. You will learn the skills of value creation, forward thinking, communication, collaboration and resilience from taking part, and be welcomed into a team at our in-person sessions coming up in February.
February
Join us at our launch on Tuesday 3 February 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 that address at our workshops on 8 and 17 February.
March
Work with expert input to create, perfect and submit a pitch of your idea by the deadline of 2 March 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 at our grand final on Wednesday 1 April.
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.