We are pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring the award for Outstanding Entrepreneurial University of the year at the 2021 Times Higher Education Awards.
The Times Higher Awards are widely recognised throughout the higher education sector and each year attract hundreds of entries. These entries exemplify the talent, dedication and innovation of individuals and teams across all aspects of university life, showing us countless reasons why our institutions continue to prosper.
In 2021, for the first time in 17 years, the THE Awards look beyond the UK to include excellence in Ireland’s higher education sector too.
The Outstanding Entrepreneurial University award recognises an institution that has developed and delivered an exceptional approach to embedding entrepreneurship within its culture and programmes. Entries should demonstrate a significant impact at regional, national or international level, but also show how the university itself has benefitted.
What the judges were looking for?
In particular, judges will be looking for an institution:
- whose vision and strategy place enterprise, entrepreneurship and innovation at the heart of the organisation
- where an environment has been created that encourages entrepreneurial mindsets and behaviours in staff and students, and ensures that ideas and innovation are nurtured and given the support they need to flourish
- where the strategic approach to entrepreneurship has the potential to influence and improve other institutions’ work in this area, whether directly or because it is transferable in the sector more widely.
Please note that this award focuses on entrepreneurialism at an institutional level, so if your entry is based on an initiative that was first conceived to address a departmental or faculty need, please tell us how this came to benefit the university as a whole.
To find out more about the awards and to submit your entry please visit the-awards.co.uk . The deadline for entries is Wednesday 9 June.