EnterpriseAber - Turning Business Ideas into Reality
StartUp support at ABER 2025
Wed 7th May 1.10 - 2.30 - Visualisation Centre Room 0.06 - 'Student StartUp Competition' Launch Event!
- Come and find out about the competition, listen to previous competition winners advice, 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 starting as a freelancer 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!
Three full days of workshops & talks, where you will learn all you need to know to get your business or social enterprise up and running:
Wed 4th June
- Inspirational Role Model
- Market Research
- Marketing & Digital Marketing
- Protecting your IP
In addition to all the above sessions, it will be 'business advice drop-in day' all day on Wed 4th - so you can discuss your idea, 1:1 with our Big Ideas Wales business adviser.
Thurs 5th June
- TAX
- Controlling Finance & Bookkeeping
- Social enterprise & Sustainable business
- Student StartUp Competition - previous winners panel
Fri 6th June
- Inspirational Role Model
- Legal aspects of starting a business
- Social Media for your business/social enterprise
- Next Steps & Support available
There will be the opportunity for informal networking session at the end of each day until 5pm.
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:
- Big Ideas Wales
- Business Wales
- Federation of Small Businesses (FSB)
- Prince’s Trust
- The Development Bank of Wales
- UK Government support and advice for start-ups
- Unltd
- Antur Cymru
- Aber Innovation & Enterprise Campus
- Tramshed Tech
- CWMPAS
- Engineers in Business Fellowship
- HM Revenue & Customs
- IPSE
- DBACE
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.