Now in its tenth year, Big Idea Challenge, London Met’s annual pitching competition came to a close yesterday with an awards evening hosted at The Wash Houses in Aldgate East. The night was co-hosted by Antonio Hines, our 2018 [...]
London Metropolitan University hosted an Introduction to Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) event, which brought together local organisations and businesses based at Accelerator to explore the opportunities presented by the Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership scheme. A Knowledge Transfer Partnership [...]
We recently caught up with Simas Senavaitis, the co-founder of Dental Tutors to find out how the business has been going since their Big Idea Challenge Commercial category win in 2016. Simas Senavaitis, a 3D Modelling & Design graduate from [...]
Big Idea Challenge, London Met’s annual pitching competition came to a close yesterday with a prestigious awards evening hosted at the Museum of London. As our first in-person Big Idea awards since 2019, the night was co-hosted brilliantly by Ella [...]
The 2021 winners of London Met’s annual Big Idea Challenge were announced at our much-anticipated live online awards night on Thursday 27 May. Throughout the evening we celebrated some of London Met’s most entrepreneurial, creative and socially minded students and [...]
When starting a new business or if you're moving into freelance work, having a presence on social media can be a great way to test your product or service with customers. Social media is also a great alternative to [...]
Launchpad, London Met’s flagship startup business programme gives students and graduates the knowledge, tools, support and momentum needed to fast track a business idea into a viable startup venture. Run by the Student Enterprise team based at Accelerator every [...]
On Thursday 18 June, we hosted and live-streamed the 2020 Big Idea Challenge Awards from Accelerator, London Met's business incubator. During our online awards evening we announced all of the competition category winners, the People's Choice winner and our overall [...]
This year’s Big Idea Challenge has once again blown us away, having uncovered a treasure trove of amazing ideas and the passionate people behind them. More than 200 London Met students, graduates and staff entered this year, and the [...]
On Wednesday 11 March over 40 students and graduates of London Metropolitan University and Kings University of London joined the 2020 London Venture Crawl. The daylong event takes students on an epic entrepreneurial journey across the capital to experience and explore London’s Startup [...]
