University Competitions 2022

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. With the award of an Engineers in…

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…

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. It is a practical introduction to the creation and…

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. All students and recent graduates are eligible to apply. There…

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’InvEnterPrize competition provides a yearly…

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. The Elevate competition is a unique opportunity at the university for student engineers to…

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…

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’…

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. This year, as part of the…

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). Each team produces a business case and…

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…

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…

Durham University ran its Bright Ideas Challenge for the second year running with the support of an Engineers in Business Prize Fund. The Bright Ideas Challenge is an elevator pitch competition open to the university’s current Engineering, Computer…

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…

The Inspired Engineers Award seeks to encourage and promote entrepreneurial and commercial thinking among student engineers.  Students in the Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Departments develop their curricular project work towards…

The Big Pitch is Anglia Ruskin University’s annual business ideas competition exclusively for undergraduate and postgraduate students, from any faculty or core campus. The competition has been running for 12 years – during this time Anglia Ruskin…

WE Innovate is Imperial’s flagship female entrepreneurship education programme designed to support the next generation of women entrepreneurs to accelerate their startups. The six-month programme supports female students in developing an early-stage…

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…

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…

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. The Flare Ignite competition is designed to be inclusive – idea level stage,…

At the University of Southampton, the Student Enterprise Team (based in the Careers and Employability Service), Future Worlds (the on-campus start-up accelerator, based within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences) and the University’s…

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…

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…

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…

Imperial College Business School provides two undergraduate entrepreneurship courses for undergraduate engineers and scientists. The courses are Entrepreneurship Online and Entrepreneurship (face-to-face). Students taking part in these modules…

Bright Ideas is Kingston University’s annual entrepreneurial competition, open to all students across the university. It is a major initiative designed to encourage students to develop key innovation and enterprise skills. It encourages students to…

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.…

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…

Now in its second year, 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.  This year, the University of…

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.The competition is…

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. UCL…