Help make Scotland a world-class place to start a business.
One of the key aims of Scotland’s National Strategy for Economic Transformation is to make our country a world-class place to start a business.
This work starts with connecting the world of startup enterprise with schools.
Some of the most successful businesses in the world started in startup incubators. Our interdisciplinary programme recreates this experience for school leavers, and teaches them the transferable skills deemed essential to succeed in an increasingly complex world.
Become a START partner, and you help create a country full of young and ambitious school leavers – and identify future star employees in the process.
START is a funded SCQF Level 6 accredited entrepreneurship programme that brings the experience of launching a startup business to S6 pupils in schools across Scotland.
Over the course of 16 weeks, school leavers learn the principles of design thinking and entrepreneurial mindsets to go on a journey to found their own startup, develop new products, commercialise their ideas, and pitch them to industry experts.
By partnering with us, you connect our pupils to the existing startup ecosystem in Scotland, and help us extend our impact to as many young people as possible.
We are proud to partner with the following organisations:
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