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.
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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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ImagineIF Accelerator
A programme of innovators across our branches worldwide, tailored mentoring and access to the Innovation Forum professional network.
Digital Skills: Digital Marketing
Empowered by Accenture, this course will teach you some of the different digital marketing strategies and techniques.
Conted: The Management and Business Skills Programme
Intensive, one-day courses in a variety of subjects.
Engaging with Entrepreneurship Programme
Sign up for IDEA's Engaging with Entrepreneurship Programme to gain practical experience, learn transferable skills for the workplace, ...
Connect TVT
Connect TVT strives to bring the Oxfordshire’s tech communities closer together in a more personal and meaningful way.
Startup Visa Endorsement (was GEV)
A UK endorsement scheme for those wish to stay in the UK to develop their business ideas.
Oxford Innovation Society
A forum for open innovation, bringing together researchers, inventors, and investors.
The Careers Service Micro-Internship Programme
The micro-internship programme offers short-term work placements with organisations based in Oxfordshire and Greater London.
Social Enterprise Awards
Since 2013, over 40 different ventures have been supported, from a community cafe to a soap recycling enterprise.
Venturefest Oxford Newsletter
Sign up to the Venturefest Oxford newsletter and be the first to hear about new and updates.
eScalate Social Enterprise Support
Supporting social entrepreneurs, enterprising charities and other purposeful businesses in Oxfordshire.
Innovation Forum Oxford
The Innovation Forum seeks to promote innovation by building bridges between academia, industry and government.
Skoll Scholarship
A competitive scholarship for incoming MBA students who pursue entrepreneurial solutions for urgent social and environmental challenges.
Developing your Creative Practice
A development fund designed to support independent creative practitioners.
RisingWISE: empowering enterprising women
Oxbridge network that aims to foster long-term relationships between enterprising early-career researchers and women working in industry.
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.
Skillshare: Online Courses
Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes in design, business, tech, and more.
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.
Oxford University Innovation (OUI)
A wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Oxford, it manages the University's technology transfer and consulting activities.
Managing Innovative Technology
Learn how organisations most effectively find, evaluate and process innovative technologies to realise their commercial value.
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.
Working Flexibly: Ask Me Anything with Sarah Haywood
Flexible working, and steering away from the traditional 9-5 structure, has a central role to play in increasing productivity and enhancing workplace equality. COVID-19 has posed intense challenges for the UK’s working parents and carers and, according to a recent Working Families survey, an ‘overwhelming majority’ of care givers ‘do not want their employer to revert to business as usual after lockdown is lifted’.
Insight into Strategy and Management
Our Insight into Strategy and Management programme is designed to demystify business and increase understanding of professional life to help students become ready for employment.
Unleash Your Potential: Innovation and Enterprise
Get an introduction to innovation and enterprise, and learn to generate and evaluate your own ideas.
Code Academy: Online Coding Courses (MOOC)
Teaching the world how to code. Learn to code interactively, for free.
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.
IDEA Bespoke Project: SeedWISE Enterprise Programme
As part of IDEA’s first round of bespoke projects, the programme has provided HEIF funding to MPLS Enterprise to support a pilot programme for DPhil researchers in STEM subjects called SeedWISE.
Online Entrepreneurship Courses (MOOC)
Free, online entrepreneurship courses from ALISON provide a top-notch online entrepreneurship education to create a startup business.
University of Oxford Entrepreneurship Support
Organisations and student groups providing opportunities to explore entrepreneurship in the University.
Oxford Innovation Forum
Innovation Forum is a global network of forward-thinking scientists, healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs and investors with 15 branches spread across 3 continents.
Tech City Digital Business Academy
Free online courses to help you start, grow or join a digital business.
RisingWISE: promoting entrepreneurial spirit amongst women
A new Oxbridge network fostering long-term relationships between enterprising early-career researchers and women working in industry.
OUI Startup Incubator
The Startup Incubator helps entrepreneur-driven ventures that are not University spinouts.
Social Enterprise UK
National body for social enterprise – business with a social or environmental mission.
Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries
Exploring the relationship between entrepreneurship and creativity.
Amazon Small Business Accelerator
Join the #AmazonAccelerator to access a catalogue of more than 15-hours of online training anytime, led by leading business experts. The e-learning is tailored to individuals just starting their entrepreneurial adventure, as well as those looking to go for growth!
Oxford Fintech Programme
This programme on financial technology and innovation is designed to offer you the tools to face the future of finance.
Enterprising Women programme
Encouraging, inspiring and supporting the participation of female STEM researchers in innovation and entrepreneurship.
EIT Innovation
EIT is an independent EU body striving to nurture entrepreneurial talent and supporting new ideas.
Social Impact Education
A variety of co-curricular courses aimed at providing high potential, socially-minded graduate students across the University of Oxford.
Social Entrepreneurship Online Course
The course is designed for who wants to gain valuable tools to make an impact on the lives of others.
OUI – Engaging with Humanities
Supporting the Humanities Division research, through enterprise, entrepreneurship and consultancy.
Zinc
Zinc brings together the brightest minds to build and scale a brand new way to solve the most important societal problems faced by the developed world.
Panacea Stars
Panacea Stars collaborate with the most exciting sci-entrepreneurs to help transform bold visions into thriving companies.
TechNation: Upscale
Helping the UK’s most promising tech companies to accelerate their growth and unlock the key to scaling successfully.
MPLS Enterprise Programme
Opportunities for Oxford University members to get information about Oxford Entrepreneurial ecosystem.
OXFO L.E.V8 Women
Empowering Oxford's current and future female leaders and founders to pursue their entrepreneurial purpose.
#StartedinOxford Demo Night – November 2018
Read our blog post from Megan Morys-Carter and see some photos from the night!
Institute of Directors (IoD)
Organisation offering professional development, valuable connections and meaningful influence.
IDEA Board Experience Programme
The IDEA Board Experience Programme aims to support University of Oxford researchers and staff, who identify as women and non-binary, ...
Climate Change: Financial Risks and Opportunities
This course provides a solid introduction to the financial risks and opportunities arising from man-made climate change.
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.
FutureLearn: Online business courses (MOOC)
Offering a diverse selection of courses from leading universities and cultural institutions from around the world.
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.
IDEA Corporate Membership with Women on Boards
If you're a University of Oxford member, you can sign-up for free access to Women on Boards NexGen Membership. Register using your ...
The Careers Service Internship Programme
The University of Oxford Internship Programme provides access to hundreds of summer internships opportunities for students.
Creating Business Start-Ups The Kawasaki Way
Learn how to start-up a business with advice from Guy Kawasaki.
Creative Industries Federation
Membership body that represents, champions and supports the UK’s creative industries.
Making decisions
This free course will help you understand some of the processes involved in decision making.
OUI Social Enterprise Support
Through social enterprise, OUI now offers a business model that is adaptable, dynamic and supports all University Divisions equally.
Zoology meets the Saïd Business School: insights from the Ideas to Impact programme
Zoology meets business in Oxford.
Ideas 2 Impact
This innovation and enterprise skills initiative is convened at Saïd Business School, in collaboration with the Entrepreneurship Centre and the University of Oxford sciences division.
Online FinTech Courses
Learn and understand fintech with free online classes from top universities and institutions.
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.
Bethnal Green Ventures
Invests in new ideas to fix social and environmental problems through an intensive three-month programme.
IDEA Programmes & Courses
As part of the IDEA programme, we will be running a number of pilot programmes to help increase diversity in enterprising activities - ...
Enterprising Oxford Newsletter
A weekly digest of upcoming entrepreneurship events in Oxfordshire, via Enterprising Oxford.
The Careers Service Student Consultancy
The programmes equips University of Oxford students with consulting skills to help local businesses, charities and community organisations.
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.
Social Shifters: Find your social or environmental passion and take action
Find your social or environmental passion - and take action
Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Awards 2019
Presented every year to Oxford University students who show exceptional achievement and commitment to positive social change.
Entrepreneur First
A 3-month long programme run in 6 cities across the globe. We bring together the few individuals with the potential to found globally important technology companies, to meet their co-founder and build startups from scratch.
RisingWISE: ‘My career has taken exciting turns since the programme’
The RisingWISE programme helps women researchers thrive, as its alumnae have experienced firsthand.
Skoll World Forum
A three day event gathering 1000 delegates from the social, finance, private and public sectors, 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.
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.
Business Fundamentals: Customer Engagement
Learn how to design business and marketing activities to engage customers through relationships instead of one-off sales.
Student Entrepreneur Programme (StEP)
Your chance to explore what it takes to be an entrepreneur, if you're a student.
F6S Competitions List
F6S delivers millions of dollars in government grants and R&D tax relief to tech startups and SMEs.
Innovation for Entrepreneurs: From Idea to Marketplace
Developing insights on navigating the innovation process from idea generation to commercialisation.
Coursera: Entrepreneurship Online Courses (MOOC)
Online, free courses taught by top instructors from world-class universities and companies. So you can learn anywhere, anytime.
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