The Student Placements for Entrepreneurs in Education (SPEED) Programme provides students at the University of Birmingham, the opportunity to develop business skills through the development of a business idea in a supportive environment.
The SPEED programme offers a 9 month placement to students who are budding entrepreneurs. SPEED is designed to help students with a sound business idea take the steps towards running a real business. The objective is to provide students with a learning opportunity intended to ultimately develop business ideas into successful businesses running for a minimum of 18 months.
The SPEED programme is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The University of Birmingham, one of eight partners nationally has been awarded 54 placements to allocate in the academic years 2009 - 2010 and 2010-2011.
SPEED is led by Wolverhampton and has seven primary partner universities taking part. In addition to Wolverhampton the partners comprise: University of Birmingham, Coventry University, Staffordshire University, Keele University, Birmingham City University, University of Worcester and Aston University.
Overall support package worth £6000:
Here are just a few of our successful past SPEED students:
Joycelyn Oyibo and Rachael Twamusi - Afrocenchix (PDF, 558KB, opens new window)
Timothy Stillwell - Nopales (PDF, 372KB, opens new window)
Will Keir and Josh Walter - Mystudentbills.com (PDF, 185KB, opens new window)
The SPEED WM project has now finished.
If you are interested in applying to our business start up programme, please visit our BSEEN programme page and apply there. We are currently taking applications.

