Becoming a client of our Student Innovation Projects brings several benefits including:
- Gaining a fresh approach to your organisation's issues through talented, enthusiastic students
- Receiving insightful recommendations from the students through a final presentation and report
- Students from a wide array of disciplines who will collectively bring a vast skillset to tackle your commercial challenge
- Recruitment and organisation of all students organised by the University
In order to participate in our Student Innovation Projects, you will need to submit a Client Form to the Employer Engagement Team for approval. Please contact us at employ@southampton.ac.uk if you would like a Client Form.
The Client Form will state your commercial challenge and needs to be detailed, as this document will ultimately be provided to the students.
Each team of students will then have four weeks to consider the commercial challenge and propose solutions to the issue. They are then required to produce a written report and present their proposal to you and a member of Careers, Employability and Student Enterprise.
Once the project begins, your involvement will be as follows:
- Having an initial meeting with your student team and providing continued ad hoc support to them via email, telephone and another meeting as required
- Providing students with the necessary information they will require to complete the project
- Attending the student presentation and final report submission, along with a representative from Careers, Employability and Student Enterprise
For more information about suitable projects, please read the Student Innovations Project Client Handbook or for examples briefs please see our Social Media Strategy, Competitor Analysis and Sustainable City Life examples alongside our Client brief template.
If you would like to discuss our Student Innovation Projects in more detail, then please contact us:
Telephone: +44(0)23 8059 3501
Email: employ@southampton.ac.uk
