Regional Sponsors

Newcastle University Careers Service aims to be one of the most effective, expert and innovative HE careers services in the world. Its mission is to develop enterprising students who can self-manage, interact and apply their knowledge and skills in a global context. It offers careers advice, guidance and skills development opportunities, curricular and extra-curricular enterprise and entrepreneurship education as well as business start-up support to over 19,000 students and graduates of Newcastle University. The Service works on an on-going basis with over 80 of the Times Top 100 graduate employers and around 500 small and large enterprises throughout the North East. The service won the 2009 AGCAS Entrepreneurship Excellence Award and boasts a number of other national awards: AGCAS Excellence Awards 2007 and 2006. Institute of Career Guidance National Awards 2005, 2004, 2002, 2001. From February 2010 the Careers Service’s entrepreneurial development activity can be followed on Twitter by visiting http://www.twitter.com/NURiseUp

www.ncl.ac.uk/careers

With around 2,000 students, Newcastle University Business School is one of the largest schools in Newcastle University, one of the UK’s leading civic universities. In keeping with the University’s worldwide reputation the School attracts some of the brightest students from across the globe. We currently have around 100 staff, including many leading academics recruited from both inside and outside the UK as experts in their fields. Our portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes has a strong international focus and is constantly being updated to give students the latest professional and research-based knowledge, and the best possible learning experience. We have excellent links with industry and professional bodies. We run a wide range of activities to support businesses in the North East region and beyond, and we also offer customised management development programmes. Our influence is increasing across the world, thanks to the achievements of our alumni, the research expertise of our staff and our partnerships with internationally reputed schools.

www.ncl.ac.uk/nubs

The Royal Institution is the leading science based community delivering balanced, relevant understanding of science and technology and its impact on our rapidly changing world. As an independent charity, it is dedicated to increasing knowledge, excitement and involvement in science and technology for current and future generations.

For over 200 years, at the headquarters on Albemarle St, the Ri has been at the forefront of science research, innovation and communication. The Ri is where scientists such Humphrey Davy, Michael Faraday, James Dewar, William and Lawrence Bragg and George Porter discovered 10 chemical elements, won 14 Nobel Prizes and made world-changing discoveries such as the laws of electromagnetism and the foundations of molecular biology. Today, the Ri continues this cutting edge research in the first ever laboratories in London.

www.rigb.org

The University of Birmingham is pleased to be hosting Doug Richard’s School for Start-ups which comes at a time of heightened interest in entrepreneurship and self-employment for students and graduates. Birmingham’s student enterprise society, BEES, is a thriving community of nascent entrepreneurs, and all students at the University and in the region will benefit from Doug’s expert advice and guidance.

The City of Birmingham is currently a hotbed of entrepreneurial activity. The beginning of 2010 sees the launch of B-SEEN, a business start-up support programme for graduates. Bringing together University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University and Aston University, the scheme will offer a six-month tenure in incubator space, with a seedcorn grant, training, coaching and mentoring. Students and recent graduates can register their interest in the programme on the day.

www.b-seen.org.uk

Founded in 1826, UCL was the first English university established after Oxford and Cambridge, the first to admit students regardless of race, class, religion or gender, and the first to provide systematic teaching of law, architecture and medicine. UCL is the fourth-ranked university in the 2009 THES-QS World University Rankings.

UCL alumni include Marie Stopes, Jonathan Dimbleby, Lord Woolf, Alexander Graham Bell, and members of the band Coldplay. UCL currently has over 12,000 undergraduate and 8,000 postgraduate students. Its annual income is over £600 million.

www.ucl.ac.uk