Venture Out winners revealed
Published on 16 January 13
With more than 112 entries from schools across the University, judges selected 18 finalists to battle it out for the nine cash prizes.
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Pharmacy students Zoe Phillips and Kirsty McFadden won the business category with their idea for a student-focussed campus pharmacy. MA Social Work students, Joanne Worthington and Phil Kerr, won the social ideas category with BakeXchange – an inter-generational baking project that helps young people at risk of exclusion whilst reaching out to older people in the community. Cristian Menzel, studying for a PhD in Chemistry, won the technology category with Biocide – a self-adhesive anti bacterial film that can be applied to many surfaces to reduce the spread of bacteria. Read more about the winners and their fantastic ideas here. |
Venture Further
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If you want to get involved, you’re not too late; Venture Further will be launching on Monday 28th January. You can find out a little more about what the competition entails and how to get involved here Last years winners of Venture Further have reached the European final of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) International Business Plan Competition. The Kaffeination Ltd. team, behind the caffeinated energy sweets ‘UPs’, is made up of MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship graduates, Matthias Schmid and David Reetz. They based their TiE competition entry on documents drawn up as part of their Venture Further entry. To find out more about their success, click here.
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