Programmes & Events
Course? Conference? Networking? Pitch competition? Whatever type of programme or event you are looking for, you are sure to find something relevant to your idea or business.
Check out our top picks, then use the filters below to further customise your search.
Startup programmes: incubate or accelerate?
Startup programs vary, but here’s some information on how to determine the best place to start your business.
RisingWISE: An Oxbridge Women's Initiative
Sonia Muliyil is a Post-Doctoral research fellow in Matthew Freeman’s lab at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology.
Community Programmes and Events
A list of upcoming programmes and events from across Oxfordshire to help you find the people and resources you need.
Startup Tips: Why start at University?
Looking for inspiration? Find startup tips and much more from students and recent graduates to help you find your path.
Oxford Foundry Student Programmes
Are you a student at Oxford? Here are the programmes and events offered for you from the Oxford Foundry.
Entrepreneurship @ Oxford
Our handy map shows you how to navigate the Oxford entrepreneurship ecosystem.
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RisingWISE: promoting entrepreneurial spirit amongst women
A new Oxbridge network fostering long-term relationships between enterprising early-career researchers and women working in industry.
Bethnal Green Ventures
Invests in new ideas to fix social and environmental problems through an intensive three-month programme.
Panacea Stars
Panacea Stars collaborate with the most exciting sci-entrepreneurs to help transform bold visions into thriving companies.
Code Academy: Online Coding Courses (MOOC)
Teaching the world how to code. Learn to code interactively, for free.
Coursera: Entrepreneurship Online Courses (MOOC)
Online, free courses taught by top instructors from world-class universities and companies. So you can learn anywhere, anytime.
Innovation Forum Oxford
The Innovation Forum seeks to promote innovation by building bridges between academia, industry and government.
Oxford Startups
Oxford Startups is a meetup for startups and people interested in the startup scene in Oxford.
Venturefest Oxford
An annual event that brings together innovators, investors and entrepreneurs within the high-tech sector.
Oxfordshire Social Entrepreneurship Partnership (OSEP)
OSEP has been set up to help existing and prospective social entrepreneurs plan, develop and grow their businesses across Oxfordshire.
FutureLearn: Online business courses (MOOC)
Offering a diverse selection of courses from leading universities and cultural institutions from around the world.
Connect TVT
Connect TVT strives to bring the Oxfordshire’s tech communities closer together in a more personal and meaningful way.
Online Entrepreneurship Courses (MOOC)
Free, online entrepreneurship courses from ALISON provide a top-notch online entrepreneurship education to create a startup business.
Creating Business Start-Ups The Kawasaki Way
Learn how to start-up a business with advice from Guy Kawasaki.
Innovation for Entrepreneurs: From Idea to Marketplace
Developing insights on navigating the innovation process from idea generation to commercialisation.
Skillshare: Online Courses (MOOC)
Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes in design, business, tech, and more.
F6S Competitions List
F6S delivers millions of dollars in government grants and R&D tax relief to tech startups and SMEs.
OUI Startup Incubator
The Startup Incubator helps entrepreneur-driven ventures that are not University spinouts.
Oxford University Innovation (OUI)
A wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Oxford, it manages the University's technology transfer and consulting activities.
MPLS Enterprise Programme
Opportunities for Oxford University members to get information about Oxford Entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Skoll World Forum
A three day event gathering 1000 delegates from the social, finance, private and public sectors, in Oxford.
Leading for Impact
Leading for Impact helps you solve social and environmental problems in your current or future career.
Conted: The Management and Business Skills Programme
Intensive, one-day courses in a variety of subjects.
OxLEP: Grow a Business
For start-up entrepreneurs and micro businesses in Oxfordshire, focusing on the critical components needed to run a successful business.
Oxford Biodesign
The Oxford Biodesign short programme aims to provide a short introduction to the Biodesign Process.
Business in Oxford
Business in Oxford has been designed to provide a detailed programme of informative presentations combined with networking opportunities.
Tech City Digital Business Academy
Free online courses to help you start, grow or join a digital business.
SAID Business School – The Entrepreneurship Centre Newsletter
Find out all the events and news from the Entrepreneurship Centre at SBS.
Enterprising Oxford Newsletter
A weekly digest of upcoming entrepreneurship events in Oxfordshire, via Enterprising Oxford.
OSEP Newsletter
If you'd like to know more about Oxfordshire Social Enterprise Partnership, and receive details of our awards and events, signup!
The Careers Service Internship Programme
The University of Oxford Internship Programme provides access to hundreds of summer internships opportunities for students.
The Careers Service Student Consultancy
The programmes equips University of Oxford students with consulting skills to help local businesses, charities and community organisations.
The Careers Service Micro-Internship Programme
The micro-internship programme offers short-term work placements with organisations based in Oxfordshire and Greater London.
Venturefest Oxford Newsletter
Sign up to the Venturefest Oxford newsletter and be the first to hear about new and updates.
Insight into Business
The Insight Into Business programme will effectively prepare you to demonstrate ‘commercial awareness’.
Startup Visa Endorsement (was GEV)
A UK endorsement scheme for those wish to stay in the UK to develop their business ideas.
Pitchfest
Pitchfest is a free, one-day event, where high-tech entrepreneurs pitch to a renowned group of investors.
OUI – Engaging with Humanities
Supporting the Humanities Division research, through enterprise, entrepreneurship and consultancy.
Skoll Scholarship
A competitive scholarship for incoming MBA students who pursue entrepreneurial solutions for urgent social and environmental challenges.
Map the System Global Challenge
Social change is complicated. Mapping is a way of understanding its complexities.
Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries
Exploring the relationship between entrepreneurship and creativity.
University of Oxford Entrepreneurship Support
Organisations and student groups providing opportunities to explore entrepreneurship in the University.
RisingWISE: empowering enterprising women
Oxbridge network that aims to foster long-term relationships between enterprising early-career researchers and women working in industry.
Zoology meets the Saïd Business School: insights from the Ideas to Impact programme
Zoology meets business in Oxford.
Fireside Chat: Making Responsible Technology the New Normal
Alex Koelbl was in the audience when Yossi Vardi sat down with Martha Lane Fox to discuss her journey as an early tech innovator.
#StartedinOxford Demo Night – November 2018
Read our blog post from Megan Morys-Carter and see some photos from the night!
Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Awards 2019
Presented every year to Oxford University students who show exceptional achievement and commitment to positive social change.
Online FinTech Courses
Learn and understand fintech with free online classes from top universities and institutions.
Creativity workshop series: Design Thinking
Through interactive group sessions, you will learn how to use Design Thinking to enhance your skills in creativity.
Idea Exploration workshops
This series will take you through the stages of turning an idea into a potential venture.
CreativeLive video classes
Practical sessions about creativity, entrepreneurship, communication, design thinking and emotional intelligence.
Student Entrepreneur Programme (StEP)
Your chance to explore what it takes to be an entrepreneur, if you're a student.
EIT Innovation
EIT is an independent EU body striving to nurture entrepreneurial talent and supporting new ideas.
Developing your Creative Practice
A development fund designed to support independent creative practitioners.
OXFO L.E.V8 Women
Empowering Oxford's current and future female leaders and founders to pursue their entrepreneurial purpose.
OXFO L.E.V8
A University of Oxford acclerator designed to support and nurture early-stage start-up teams affiliated to the University.
eScalate Social Enterprise Support
Supporting social entrepreneurs, enterprising charities and other purposeful businesses in Oxfordshire.
ImagineIF Accelerator
A programme of innovators across our branches worldwide, tailored mentoring and access to the Innovation Forum professional network.
Social Impact Education
A variety of co-curricular courses aimed at providing high potential, socially-minded graduate students across the University of Oxford.
Global Opportunities and Threats Oxford
An action-oriented problem-solving community geared towards addressing some of the most complex issues that face the world today.
Oxford Innovation Society
A forum for open innovation, bringing together researchers, inventors, and investors.
Social Enterprise Awards
Since 2013, over 40 different ventures have been supported, from a community cafe to a soap recycling enterprise.
Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Awards
Presented every year to Oxford University students who show exceptional commitment to positive social change.
Managing Innovative Technology
Learn how organisations most effectively find, evaluate and process innovative technologies to realise their commercial value.
All-Innovate Idea Competition
Encouraging all students at Oxford to develop an entrepreneurial skill-set.
OXFO Booster Grants
Apply for up to £2,000 grant funding for student society initiatives that introduce entrepreneurship in the University.
Oxford Inspires
An intimate gathering of 500 of the world's most disruptive entrepreneurs, innovators, and investors.
The Researcher Strategy Consultancy
Giving researchers a chance to develop skills for a transition to analytical, business or policy roles in the public and private sector.
Oxford Hub Impact Labs
Learn about impact measurement, and apply your skills to the benefit of local charities.
Social Enterprise UK
National body for social enterprise – business with a social or environmental mission.
Oxford Fintech Programme
This programme on financial technology and innovation is designed to offer you the tools to face the future of finance.
TechNation: Upscale
Helping the UK’s most promising tech companies to accelerate their growth and unlock the key to scaling successfully.
Creative Industries Federation
Membership body that represents, champions and supports the UK’s creative industries.
Institute of Directors (IoD)
Organisation supporting, representing and setting standards for business leaders nationwide.
Business Fundamentals: Customer Engagement
Learn how to design business and marketing activities to engage customers through relationships instead of one-off sales.
Digital Skills: Digital Marketing
Empowered by Accenture, this course will teach you some of the different digital marketing strategies and techniques.
How to Finance and Grow Your Startup – Without VC
If you’re an entrepreneur at any stage of your journey, and you need money, this course is for you.
Unleash Your Potential: Innovation and Enterprise
Get an introduction to innovation and enterprise, and learn to generate and evaluate your own ideas.
Making decisions
This free course will help you understand some of the processes involved in decision making.
Creative Thinking: Techniques and Tools for Success
Learn how to apply tools to better solve problems, generate ideas, and excel in your chosen career.
Get Interactive: Practical Teaching with Technology
This is a very practical course that will teach you how to create interactive online courses.
Social Entrepreneurship Online Course
The course is designed for who wants to gain valuable tools to make an impact on the lives of others.
Improving Service User Experience in Health and Social Care
This course is ideal if you are working in a customer-facing role in the health and social care sector.
Climate Change: Financial Risks and Opportunities
This course provides a solid introduction to the financial risks and opportunities arising from man-made climate change.
Support ‘hubs’ will boost Oxfordshire’s growing social enterprise sector
eScalate, the newest programme from OxLEP Business, is creating 6 ‘hubs’ to nurture social entrepreneurship across the county.
Oxford Garage
A community that provides aspiring founders the opportunity to gain access to Oxford Garage’s network of mentors, partners, entrepreneurs, VCs, Oxford faculty, and alumni.
Creative Destruction Lab
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a seed-stage programme for massively scalable, science-based companies.
Aspect launch new Accelerator!
Aspect’s new flagship four-month social sciences student and alumni accelerator hosted by LSE to support and scale socially-responsible student and alumni ventures is now open for applications.
Enterprising Women programme
Encouraging, inspiring and supporting the participation of female STEM researchers in innovation and entrepreneurship.
WeAreTheCity
WeAreTheCity includes gender-related news, a networks directory, calendar of events and conferences, returnships, business schools, inspirational women profiles, HeForShe interviews, giving back and jobs.
Get Your Startup Started
In this course, you’ll learn how to pitch your business and secure the funding you’ll need to launch your new company.
OUI Social Enterprise Support
Through social enterprise, OUI now offers a business model that is adaptable, dynamic and supports all University Divisions equally.
RisingWISE: ‘My career has taken exciting turns since the programme’
The RisingWISE programme helps women researchers thrive, as its alumnae have experienced firsthand.
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