UCE Summer Startup Programme
Activity
The UCE Summer Startup programme is a 10-week programme to help students progress their business venture. Students participate in workshops, network and build relationships, pitch their venture at events and develop their idea or venture into a feasible and scalable business or social enterprise.
Additional Information
Activities could include:
- Engaging in educational entrepreneurship sessions
- Receiving advice from UCE staff and external business mentors
- Participating in pitch battles
- Undertaking market validation
Hours involved in the activity
12 hours minimum. For every 12 hours of active learning you can claim recognition for one skill and one attribute. NB: opportunities only exist to develop the skills and attributes specified for this activity in the grey areas of the table below. For this activity you can claim a maximum of three learning and development outcomes.
Contact
James Carr
Email: james.carr@canterbury.ac.nz
Work readiness skill/Graduate attribute
By actively engaging in this activity, you can claim against the pre-determined intersection points detailed below. You should reflect on your experience and select the WRS/GA intersection point(s) that best represents your learning outcome.
- B1 - Communication - UCE Summer Startup students deliver presentations, write reports, and engage with the UCE Community.
- B2 - Initiative and enterprise - UCE Summer Startup students will develop and grow their own venture and ideas, or form teams to progress an existing idea by engaging with the UCE and external community.
- B3 - Leadership - UCE Summer Startup students take ownership and lead conversations with people in the community, relevant industry leaders and mentors about their idea or venture.
- B4 - Learning - UCE Summer Startup students attend mentoring, feedback sessions and events and seminars around Christchurch extending their knowledge and experience of entrepreneurship.
- C1 - Comunication - UCE Summer Startup students develop professional and effective communication skills when working closely with their team and the UCE Community.
- C2 - Initiative & enterprise - UCE Summer Startup students will develop and grow their own venture and ideas, or form teams to progress an existing idea.
- C3 - Leadership - UCE Summer Startup students progress their idea by leading co-founders or team members into engagments with the community and mentors. Team members seek opportunities to be leaders within the team.
- C4 - Learning - UCE Summer Startup students apply learning from educational entrepreneurial sessions, mentors, and feedback sessions to find solutions and develop new ways of expanding their idea or venture.
- C5 - Planning and organisation - UCE Summer Startup students will gain experience planning and organising how they will pursue and develop venture ideas. This will include prioritisation.
- C6 - Problem solving - UCE Summer Startup students will learn to develop a venture idea to solve real problems.
- C7 - Self-Management - UCE Summer Startup students will organise themselves and be efficient with their time to balance their studies, the venture they are involved with and other commitments.
- C8 - Teamwork - UCE Summer Startup students will learn to work as a team and sharing experiences and learnings with the group.
- C9 - Technology - UCE Summer Startup students will learn to use a range of technologies in progressing the venture they are working on.
- D2 - Initiative & enterprise - UCE Summer Startup students look overseas for potential suppliers and customers.
- D4 - Learning - UCE Summer Startup students learn from overseas examples to apply or adapt the idea they are working on.
- D6 - Problem solving - UCE Summer Startup students can look overseas to see what problems and what potential solutions have already been developed to apply or improve the idea they are working on.
- D9 - Technology - UCE Summer Startup students will research international technologies to maximise efficiency and cost effectiveness while developing the idea they are working on.
| Co-curricular Record (CCR) |
UC Graduate Attributes (GAs) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bicultural Competence & Confidence | Community Engagement | Employability Innovation & Enterprise | Global Awareness | ||
| Work Readiness Skills (WRS) | Communication | A1 | B1 | C1 | D1 |
| Initiative and enterprise | A2 | B2 | C2 | D2 | |
| Leadership | A3 | B3 | C3 | D3 | |
| Learning | A4 | B4 | C4 | D4 | |
| Planning and organising | A5 | B5 | C5 | D5 | |
| Problem solving | A6 | B6 | C6 | D6 | |
| Self-management | A7 | B7 | C7 | D7 | |
| Teamwork | A8 | B8 | C8 | D8 | |
| Technology | A9 | B9 | C9 | D9 | |
CCR criteria
- UC affiliated
- Not an academic prerequisite
- Not for academic credit
Are you interested in participating in this activity?