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. 

 

Wed 5th March 3-4.30pm - Medrus Mawr - Inspirational Role Model for International Womens’ Day

Jamila is a down to earth, inspirational speaker and will be talking about her experience of  taking part in ‘InvEnterPrize’ to starting her business, and becoming one of the alumni judges for the competition.  As part of International Women’s Day, you will learn how Jamila achieved all this, whilst completing her Phd and bringing up her two young children – a real inspiration!  https://prohempotic.com/

  • Free for students, graduates, staff & others interested in developing a business or social enterprise. 
  • Refreshments provided!

 

Wed 7th May 1.10 - 2.30 - Visualisation Centre Room 0.06 - Student Ideas Competition Launch Event!  Come and find out about the competition, listen to previous competition winners advice and learn how you can apply and be in with a chance of winning cash prizes, mentoring and more!  

  • Free for students, graduates, staff & others interested in developing a business or social enterprise.

 

Tues 20th May 11am-12pm - Webinar 'Taking Freelance Seriously' hosted by EEUK - tangible actions to equip your students for the future of work. Free for students, graduates, staff & others interested in Freelancing

To register please click here.

 

Summer StartUp Week 4th-6th June - Visualisation Centre 0.06 - Save the date!

You will learn all you need to know to get your business or social enterprise up and running covering:

  • Market Research
  • Marketing & Branding
  • Protecting your IP
  • TAX
  • Finance & Bookkeeping
  • Sustainable business/social enterprise
  • Legal aspects of starting a business
  • Next Steps & Support available
  • Informal networking session at the end of each day

There will also be Inspirational Role Models sharing their ideas & and expertise on how they started their businesses, giving you invaluable hints & tips for your startup journey.

 

 

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

 

Useful links: 

 

 

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

 

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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.