EU ESA | Enterprising Students Accreditation Platform for Europe

Summary
The Enterprising Students Accreditation (ESA) is a programme that has run for three years in the UK and has grown to now involve over 110,000 students annually. At present it is based on a simple online platform with limited functionality. Through the building of our European network we have identified a clear business opportunity to build a pan-European ESA network with programmes managed locally in each country. This project is centred on designing, testing and building a new ESSA Platform with increased functionality, capabilities and localisation. This will greatly increase revenue generation both centrally and for local partners, beneficially impact on youth unemployment, create a large student-specific network and positively contribute to our access to talent, profile and ultimately our position as a European seed finance venture fund. To achieve this we now need to apply focus to testing our model, validating the practical and financial feasibility and widening our EU awareness.
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Web resources: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/696671
Start date: 01-10-2015
End date: 31-03-2016
Total budget - Public funding: 71 429,00 Euro - 50 000,00 Euro
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The Enterprising Students Accreditation (ESA) is a programme that has run for three years in the UK and has grown to now involve over 110,000 students annually. At present it is based on a simple online platform with limited functionality. Through the building of our European network we have identified a clear business opportunity to build a pan-European ESA network with programmes managed locally in each country. This project is centred on designing, testing and building a new ESSA Platform with increased functionality, capabilities and localisation. This will greatly increase revenue generation both centrally and for local partners, beneficially impact on youth unemployment, create a large student-specific network and positively contribute to our access to talent, profile and ultimately our position as a European seed finance venture fund. To achieve this we now need to apply focus to testing our model, validating the practical and financial feasibility and widening our EU awareness.

Status

CLOSED

Call topic

ICT-37-2015-1

Update Date

27-10-2022
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Horizon 2020
H2020-EU.2. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP
H2020-EU.2.1. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
H2020-EU.2.1.1. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
H2020-EU.2.1.1.0. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - ICT - Cross-cutting calls
H2020-SMEINST-1-2015
ICT-37-2015-1 Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
H2020-EU.2.3. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
H2020-EU.2.3.1. Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument
H2020-SMEINST-1-2015
ICT-37-2015-1 Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)