EnterpriseAber - Turning Business Ideas into Reality

StartUp support at ABER 2025

Wed 5th Feb 2.10-3pm - Webinar - 'Raising Finance for your business or social enterprise' - Find our how you can raise finance for your business or social enterprise from BANC, Purple Shoots, The King's Trust & Big Ideas Wales. Free for students, graduates, staff & others interested in developing a business or social enterprise. 

Wed 5th March 3-4.30pm - Medrus Mawr - International Women's Day - with Inspirational speaker Jamila La Malfa Donaldson, previous winner of InvEnterPrize, Student Ideas Competition for best business idea.  Free for students, graduates, staff & others interested in developing a business or social enterprise. 

Wed 7th May 1.10 - 2.30 - Visualisation Centre Room 0.06 - Student Ideas Competition Launch Event!  Come and find out about the competition, how you can apply and be in with a chance of winning £10,000! 

Wed 20th May 11am-12pm - Webinar 'Taking Freelance Seriously' hosted by EEUK - To register please click here.

 

Summer StartUp Week 4th-6th June - Save the date! More details coming soon.

 

 

Come and talk to the 'Enterprise Team', we provide current students, graduates and others with the support they need to either, become freelance/self-employed, set up their own business/social enterprise, launch a scalable startup or develop essential enterprise skills.  

We offer inspirational events, skill development workshops, specialist mentoring, annual student business competition, plus advice and guidance through our 1:1 appointments. 

You can join our mailing list to stay up to date with Enterprise Events email: enterprise@aber.ac.uk

 

See our Success Stories here: Aber graduate starts

 

Remember.....we offer FREE 1:1 'Business Mentoring' 

Get in touch enterprise@aber.ac.uk

 

Sell your products or services here: Welsh Student Marketplacehttps://walesstudentmarket.co.uk/ 

 

Useful links:               

https://businesswales.gov.wales/bigideas/ 

https://businesswales.gov.wales/

https://anturcymru.org.uk/

https://aberinnovation.com/

https://www.tramshedtech.co.uk/

https://cwmpas.coop/

https://developmentbank.wales/

Engineers in Business Fellowship

 

 

What we offer:

  • Business Start-Up and Enterprise Support
  • 'Essential skills' workshops & Events
  • Inspirational Role Model Talks
  • One-to-one Business Advice & Mentoring
  • Funding Advice
  • Networking

 

2024 Enterprise at ABER Report

The Impact of Enterprise Education at Aberystwyth University (Word)

The Impact of Enterprise Education at Aberystwyth University 2024 (PDF)

 

Contact us: 
enterprise@aber.ac.uk
01970 622378

 

To provide you with our full range of start-up support services we hold and utilise personal data that you provide, on the basis of legitimate interest.

Our full Data Protection Information can be viewed here -Data Protection Information Students/Graduates ; Data Protection Information Employers and Stakeholders

Enterprise and Business start-up at Aberystwyth University is supported by The Welsh Government Youth Entrepreneurship Scheme as part of the Welsh Governments commitment to encourage youth entrepreneurship in Wales.