What we do
At the Masood Entrepreneurship Centre (MEC), we offer many opportunities to develop your entrepreneurial skillset and mindset, whether you want to start or develop your own business, or succeed in an existing organisation.
Learn with MEC
Develop entrepreneurship skills to thrive in any setting.
Key 5 Microlearning
Boost your Key 5 entrepreneurial skills, helping you succeed and innovate in any setting.
Taught Units
Make entrepreneurship part of your degree and gain skills to thrive in any setting.
Idea to Launch
Programmes, funding and startup competitions to suit any stage of business development.
1. Build Your Idea with...
Ideas Lab
Join our interactive cohort programme or 1-day Bootcamps to transform your creative spark into a business idea, build confidence and master pitching.
Get Started
Have a business, side hustle, or freelancing idea? Join our online, challenge-based programme to gain up to £500 and develop skills to refine your idea.
2. Advance Your Idea with...
Get Freelancing
Master skills such as marketing and financial planning, grow your network, and open doors to new opportunities. Up to £500 in prize funding available.
Researcher to Innovator
Are you a final-year PhD student, PDRA or early-career researcher? Join our bespoke, expert-led programme to deliver impact from your research.
3. Test Your Idea with...
4. Compete With Your Idea...
Venture Further Awards
Take your business to the next level! Enter the UK’s leading university start-up competition with a £100,000 total prize pot.
Harari Graphene Enterprise Award
Win up to £50,000 to establish new companies involving graphene or other 2D materials.
International Support
We're proud to belong to a global university and we support our international students and graduates to establish businesses both in the UK and in their home countries.
If you are an international student with a Student or Tier 4 visa, you are limited in the type of “business related activity” that you can engage in while you hold this visa. For more information, please refer to the UK Government website.
At the Masood Entrepreneurship Centre, we are happy to welcome all students & recent graduates to any of our events & workshops.
Startup Visa Scheme
The Startup Visa scheme has now closed permanently, and we are unable to endorse any more applications for a Startup visa endorsement.
Visa Options
Please read the information below for further information regarding Visa options for international entrepreneurs.
Download Visa options information for International Entrepreneurs (PDF Document, 0.6MB)
