Enterprise support, funding and competitions

RSE Enterprise Fellowships, Converge Challenge and ICURe info session Tuesday 22nd January 2-4.30pm

This info session is for anyone thinking about applying to one of these schemes and will include a short talk on each plus Q&A

Venue: The Kelvin Room on the ground floor of No. 11 The Square (the last in the row of houses opposite the University chapel in the main building – A19 on the campus map)

Sign up here:  TBC  (bookitbee)

14.00-14.30  Converge Challenge  is the largest business competition and entrepreneurial training programme in Scotland specifically designed for Universities and Research Institutes.  It provides training, hands-on mentoring, business support and cash prizes up to £50,000. Programme participation will allow you to refine your business proposition, connect with like-minded individuals and gain the right skills to start and grow your business.

Converge is open to staff, postgraduate and recent graduates (within 24 months from graduation) from all Scottish Universities, working with any industry sector, product- or service-based ideas at any stage of development.

This workshop is for anyone who is considering applying to Converge Challenge and/or would like to find out more about the competition, as well as other support available to help you with your business idea.

Speaker:  Adam Kosterka, Converge Challenge

14.30-15.00  RSE Enterprise Fellowships are designed to enable an individual to advance the commercialisation of existing research results or technological developments.

They offer:

• A year's salary to develop your commercial proposition and product, hosted at your university (time to focus solely on refining the business proposal)
• Cutting edge training in business and entrepreneurship
• Up to £10k business support funding

• Access to networks of mentors, business experts and professional advisors
• Lifetime membership of the RSE Entrepreneurs Club

Speaker:  Hannah Chater, Royal Society of Edinburgh

15.00-15.30 ICURe  The ICURe Innovation-to-Commercialisation programme, piloted by the SETsquared Partnership and Innovate UK, and funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), offers university research teams with commercially-promising ideas up to £35k to ‘get out of the lab’ and validate their ideas in the marketplace.

Speaker:  Paul Donachy, ICURe

15.30-16.30  Q&A and discussion with the speakers or members of UofG staff with a role to support you in entrepreneurship or research commercialisation.