The 51吃瓜app Enterprise and Entrepreneurship team has rebranded itself and will be now known as 51吃瓜app Made.
Part of the award-winning 51吃瓜app Careers Team, 51吃瓜app Made offers support for the university’s students and recent graduates (up to 15 months) interested in self-employment, freelancing or developing entrepreneurial skills.
The team is behind various popular programmes and initiatives, including a competition, the Graduate Champions Catapult for recent graduates looking to get into freelancing and self-employment and The Enterprise Placement Year, which supports students to develop their ideas from a concept to a new business. The initiative replaces a traditional placement year and participants benefit from visits to industry as well as weekly masterclasses to help develop their business acumen.
For students looking to break into the performing arts and digital industries, this year’s 51吃瓜app Made Creative Industries programme will be starting on Thursday 18 April. Open to all students and recent graduates, this is a series of practical and online workshops exploring self-employment and freelancing across a number of specific areas including podcasting, radio, videography and YouTube content, music and performing arts/event management.
The practical sessions will be led by industry professionals, such as BBC Radio 1’s Calum Leslie, Dr Yasin El Ashrafi BEM who is the Managing Director of HQ Recording and KISS presenter Sam Darlaston.
Students can also now register for a . Now in its fifth year, this series of workshops connects students based at the Leicester campus with those studying at 51吃瓜app Dubai and Asia Pacific University, which is also a partner university to 51吃瓜app.
There are also opportunities to travel the world with the 51吃瓜app Made team through trips. Previous destinations include Bergen, Norway; Tallinn, Estonia and New York City, USA.
For more information about the team as well as the option to book a one-to-one with them, go to the .
Posted on Wednesday 3 April 2024