For careers and employability teams
Help every student on your campus get real work experience.
- students on Headstart
- 5,000+
- universities represented
- 90+
- startups with live projects
- 350+
Event highlights
Our partners
An ideathon open to every undergraduate and master's student
The Big Idea Challenge · Ideathon · London
Promoted through myUCLCareers. Teams pitched startup ideas to a panel of founders, the top three teams won prizes, and every participant took home a certificate.
- students joined
- 80+
- teams pitched
- 15+
- startup founders on the judging panel
- 3
What we offer universities
Work experience for every student
We bring the startups, the briefs and the delivery. You choose what fits your students and your calendar.
Work-based placements
A group of your students works on live startup projects for a semester, with goals agreed with your placements team.
Running with
Access to opportunities
Your students join 8-week remote startup projects each cycle, around 5 to 6 hours a week, from first year up.
Running with
Tailored workshops
Ideathons and case workshops built on a real startup problem, run during weeks you already plan.
Running with
“It was a brilliant and engaging session, and it was fantastic to see students put their creative ideas into practice.”
What we've run
Detailed sessions on campus
Every session is built on a real startup problem, so students practise the work instead of only hearing about it.
IdeathonThe Big Idea ChallengeUCL School of Management 
Case workshopCrack the Creative CaseUCA · Opportunities Week 
Placement pilotveNTUre work-based pilotNTU Singapore · 9 students 
Fair and talkASPIRE careers fairBuckinghamshire New University
Planning work experience for every student?
Tell us about your students and your calendar. We'll suggest a first session or a one-semester pilot.