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Unipreneur Challenge: Empowering Students to Develop Entrepreneurial Skills and Networks

The Unipreneur Challenge is an innovative scheme designed to foster entrepreneurial skills among students while connecting them with local businesses. Participating students work in groups to develop practical proposals that demonstrate value addition to various organizations. Workshops focus on understanding individual entrepreneurial profiles, teamwork, and presentation skills. Feedback from business stakeholders is overwhelmingly positive, with many students expressing increased confidence and motivation to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. The initiative also resulted in job offers and awards for participants.

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Unipreneur Challenge: Empowering Students to Develop Entrepreneurial Skills and Networks

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  1. UNIPRENEUR CHALLENGE Tony Shannon-Little 27 June 2012

  2. WHAT & WHY? • scheme to promote and develop entrepreneurial skills for students, develop relationships with businesses in the region, boost enterprise and create potential employment opportunities. • Students identify and present to the business stakeholders a practicable way of adding value

  3. WHO? • Any volunteer LSSC students in groups of 3 • 2 sets so far (Feb/Mar + June) – 15-18 in a set • Delivered by external consultant Gary Lennon (SPEED consultant) and associates. • Interested organisations, contacted by GL. e.g. • Talbots Solicitors • Beacon Centre for the Blind • Accord Housing Group

  4. HOW? • E-scan (competence, attitudes, thinking styles) • 5x 3 hour workshops • Contact with organisations (supported) 4 weeks. • Analysis of ways to add value • Presentation to organisation and feedback • Judging Panel event • Award Ceremony • Follow-up E-scan

  5. WHAT IS IN THE WORKSHOPS? • Understanding your own entrepreneurial profile • Understanding the work environment and stakeholders: how to conduct analysis • Innovating – creativity plus realism to add value • Working in a team, under pressure • Presenting your proposition and reacting to feedback

  6. HOW DID STUDENTS BENEFIT? • “The Unipreneur Challenge is a brilliant platform helping me to build upon my strengths and develop new skills. Most importantly it has enabled me to network with like-minded people and build professional relationships with them. I am now more determined than ever to go after my dreams, and actually own my business.” Katrina Calvin – Participating student • Real challenge – results-driven • Time-constrained • Showcasing talents • Developmental

  7. HOW DID Cos REACT? • “I felt that they performed well on all levels and there is nothing that I could offer by way of constructive comment. As three strangers coming together, to work in an unknown and daunting legal environment they get immense praise from me. The feedback I have had from colleagues has been similarly positive. I invited 3 others to sit in on the presentation and they too were very impressed and felt they would be a good example to our own teams.” Derek Simmonds, Partner, Quality Simmonds Talbots - Participating Business

  8. HOW DO Cos BENEFIT? Focused intensive attention on new opportunities, sometimes with unexpected outcomes No-commitment trialling of potential employees Closer links with university for future collaboration

  9. WHAT ELSE HAPPENED? 2 students were offered jobs 2 students won Intuit 100Up awards All invited to implement their propositions All 5 businesses will support further Unipreneur Challenges All students reported increased confidence, focus and entrepreneurial skills / mindset Several students will develop business ideas, directly as a result of participation.

  10. WHAT NEXT? Further sets (Autumn + Winter) Entrepreneurs networking Possible expansion beyond LSSC Wider community engagement Panel + Awards 4th July!

  11. THANK YOU! Tony Shannon-Little 27 June 2012

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