University Competitions

InvEnterPrize

InvEnterPrize is a student ideas competition run annually and now in its tenth year. The competition is open to students and recent graduates to submit their business idea and have a chance to win a £10,000 Alumni funded cash prize, and other cash prizes – including £1,000 from EIBF for the best idea allied to maths, physics, computer science or engineering.

Mayor's Entrepreneur Competition

First year undergraduate engineering students undertook a group design project for their Design and Practice module. Students were tasked with developing business ideas that solved real-world problems that London is facing. Approximately 300 engineering undergraduate students participated in this project, culminating in the top ten groups being shortlisted as finalists to a Pitch Party. Each group making the top ten earned a £100 prize from the EIBF fund to share and were then given the opportunity to win an additional prize by preparing and presenting a three-minute pitch to their fellow shortlisted classmates, and a panel of esteemed judges.

Student Enterprise Fund

The Student Enterprise Fund is designed to support a broad range of early-stage businesses, social enterprises and freelancers. Specifically, the BUILD pathway allows eligible students to win EIBF funding for their innovations. Students can win up to £2,000 via the BUILD pathway which runs twice a year in the Autumn and Spring semester, partially funded by EIBF.

Big Ideas Competition

Engineering and computer science students from Teesside University were challenged to ideate around the UN17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Leading Engineering Endeavours

The Leading Engineering Endeavours Project is undertaken by Level 5 engineering students at Birmingham City University (BCU). This year, 101 students took part and put into interdisciplinary teams drawn from mechanical, automotive, electronic and manufacturing disciplines. The teams were set a challenge by the Environment Agency to design and make a low-cost ‘disruptive technology’ prototype for monitoring air quality. Teams had regular interactions with the client and presented their solutions at the Innovation Fest 2024 event, held at BCU.

Dragons' Den Business Enterprise

University of East London’s (UEL) Medical Physiology and Biomedical Engineering undergraduate students, forming groups of 3-4, dedicated themselves to developing innovative business solutions that address critical gaps in medicine and healthcare. At Bühler Group, they presented their visionary projects to an audience of 50, highlighting their creative, business, communication, and applied skills.

MSc Entrepreneurship Pitch Day

The 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.

Grand Challenge

The 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.

Green Tech Jam

The 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.

Electrical and Electronic Engineers in Business Competition

In 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.

Foundation Year Business Case for Engineers

This 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.

New Enterprise Competition

The 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.

Researcher to Innovator

The 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.

Ingenuity Impact - National Competition

Ingenuity 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.

Flare

The 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.

Elevate

University 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.

Ingenuity Impact

Ingenuity 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.

Engineering You're Hired

Engineering 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.

WE Innovate

WE 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.

Science and Engineering Challenge

Manchester 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.

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.

Enterprise Hub Bursaries

Enterprise 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).

Spring StartUp Awards

Cardiff 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.

Setty Family Foundation Net Zero Energy Design

Architects 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.

Dragons' Den

QUB’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.

UHI Business Competition

The 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.

Recognising Engineering Excellence

Ulster 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.

Starting A Business

The 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.

Dragons' Den

The 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.

Bath Beyond Boundaries

The 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.

Entrepreneurship

Imperial 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.

Venture

Venture 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).

Enterprise Challenge

The 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).

Invent for the Planet

Invent 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.

Bright Ideas

Bright 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.

Engineers in Business Hackathon

With 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.

General Engineering Dragon's Den

Canterbury 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.

Engineering Business Ideas

The 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.

Health Innovation Challenge

This 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.

Business Development Project

Second year engineering students at Lancaster University develop ideas for business opportunities through the core ‘ENGR205 Business Development Project’ module.

Mayor's Entrepreneur Competition

First 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.

Student Enterprise Fund: Concept to Creation

The 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.

Leading Engineering Endeavours

The 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.

WE Innovate

WE 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.

Bright Ideas Challenge

The 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.

Fourth Year Poster Competition

The 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.

New Enterprise Competition

The 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.

UoB Engineers in Business Competition

University 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.

TEDI-London Summer School

The 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.

Flare

The 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.

Ingenuity

The 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.

Foundation Year “Business Case for Engineers” Project

The 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.

Engineering You’re Hired

Engineering You’re Hired is an intensive one-week (35-hour) activity that is compulsory for all second years within the Faculty of Engineering.

BUSI60042 Entrepreneurship Online

Imperial 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.

Business Competition

The 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.

Elevate

The 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.

Dragons' Den

QUB’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.

Ingenuity National Competition

The 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).

Grand Challenge

The 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).

Surrey Electrical and Electronic Engineers in Business Competition

The 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.

MSc Entrepreneurship Pitch Day: Innovating Engineers Challenge

The MSc Entrepreneurship Pitch Day competition fosters small teams of MSc Entrepreneurship and other UCL Engineering students to create innovative business ideas.

Big Ideas Competition

Cardiff 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.

Venture

Venture 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.

BUSI60041 Entrepreneurship Module

Imperial 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.

Bright Ideas

Bright Ideas is Kingston University’s annual entrepreneurial competition, open to all students across the university.

Spring Start-Up Awards

This 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.

Starting a Business Module

The 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.

InvEnterPrize Student Ideas Competition

InvEnterPrize 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.

Solar Decathlon Design Challenge & Setty Family Foundation Net Zero Energy Design

The 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.

Edinburgh Innovations Business Idea Competition

The 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.

The Dragons' Den

The 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.

Invent for the Planet

Invent 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.

King's College London Engineers in Business Competition

The 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.

UCL MSc Entrepreneurship Pitch Day

The 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.

University of Oxford Engineers in Business Competition

The 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.

University of Birmingham Engineers in Business Competition

Birmingham 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.

Second Year Engineering Module - ENGR205 Business Development Project

Lancaster 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.

Innovation Fest - Leading Engineering Endeavours Project

The 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.

Bright Ideas

Bright Ideas is Kingston University’s annual entrepreneurial competition, open to all students across the university.

Entrepreneurship Online and Entrepreneurship

Imperial College Business School provides two undergraduate entrepreneurship courses for undergraduate engineers and scientists. The courses are Entrepreneurship Online and Entrepreneurship (face-to-face).

The Mayor's Entrepreneurs Competition: Design & Practice Module

London 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.

Business Case for An Engineering Design Proposal

The 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.

Surrey Electrical and Electronic Engineers in Business Competition

The 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.

SEED Startup Fund Competition

The 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.

Flare Ignite

Flare Ignite is a highly competitive annual competition that gives Herts students and alumni entrepreneurial support and training to bring their business ideas to life.

New Enterprise Competition

The 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.

The Capstone Project

The 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.

WE Innovate

WE Innovate is Imperial’s flagship female entrepreneurship education programme designed to support the next generation of women entrepreneurs to accelerate their startups.

Big Pitch

The Big Pitch is Anglia Ruskin University’s annual business ideas competition exclusively for undergraduate and postgraduate students, from any faculty or core campus.

Inspired Engineer Award

The Inspired Engineers Award seeks to encourage and promote entrepreneurial and commercial thinking among student engineers.

Ingenuity

The 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.

Bright Ideas Challenge

The 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.

Engineering You're Hired

Engineering 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.

University of the Highlands and Islands Business Competition

The 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.

Grand Challenge

Nottingham 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).

Engineering Design Competition

Canterbury 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.

Dragons' Den

Queen’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.

Starting a Business

The 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.

Elevate

Elevate 2022 was the University of Exeter’s fourth year participating in the Engineers in Business Competition and was led by the Student Startups Team.

Student Ideas Competition

InvEnterPrize 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’

Enterprise Challenge

The 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.

Business Innovation & Entrepreneurship

The University of York’s Business Innovation & Entrepreneurship course provides broad coverage of what’s involved in the exploitation of technologies through innovation and entrepreneurship.

Global Design Challenge

The 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.

Venture

This 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.