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Luton-based electrical engineers and contractors, Instalec, has become the first company to take advantage of our internship scheme and will benefit from the skills and services of a graduate for up to three months.
Instalec has chosen Animesh Chowdhury, a University of Bedfordshire graduate with a BSc (Hons) in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, to work as a marketing and advertising developer. Managing Director Paul Jones had identified that the company’s marketing and advertising needed some new initiatives to help increase their market share and develop into new sectors. He felt that having a full-time, dedicated member of staff concentrating their efforts solely on the development of advertising and marketing strategies for the future was exactly what the business needed. This internship scheme made this an affordable possibility. We’ll be returning to Paul and Animesh as the internship progresses.
The scheme, which is part of the national Backing Young Britain campaign, offers local companies an extra and high calibre resource at a heavily subsidised rate and finds quality placements for graduates seeking work experience.
We now have 74 internship places to offer local businesses. Graduates are paid the national minimum wage and the employer will be subsidised by the University to reduce this cost significantly. Funding is provided by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). The internships last between eight and twelve weeks.
For more information and to register for the scheme email: knowledge@beds.ac.uk or visit www.beds.ac.uk/knowledgehub/internship
The University of Bedfordshire Theatre has had a fabulous and varied programme of entertainment to tempt you away from your fireplace in its first season. Audience numbers have continued to grow and we had a full house at the recent Hardeep Singh Kohli event.
This season finishes on 27th March so you can still catch the last few events:
All events start at 7.30pm. For more information click here.
The Knowledge Hub sponsors several business awards recognising outstanding talent and innovation in 2010:
The Young Business Person Award
This award will recognise the importance of enterprising young people to the local economy and is open to young entrepreneurs that are enjoying success in building their own business, and to those employees who have had an outstanding impact in contributing to the success of a larger organisation in the private, public or charitable sectors.
Award winners will be announced at The Conquest Business Awards Evening on Thursday 25th March 2010.
Federation of Small Businesses Small Business Awards 2010-Bedfordshire: Business Innovation Award
The Knowledge Hub is sponsoring the Business Innovation Award for businesses that can demonstrate a high degree of innovation. The award recognises creativity and new thinking, as well as the use of knowledge or technology as an important part in the development of a business.
Award
winners will be announced
at the award ceremony at the Luton Hoo Hotel on Thursday 27th May.
It’s now even easier to stay in touch with what’s happening at The Knowledge Hub. Whether you’re looking for quick updates, news, opinion, expertise, or events, you can find it all online at:
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We’re also keen to find out what you’re up to and look forward to following your Tweets, reading your updates or reading your feedback on our blog.
Come and take part in a day dedicated to innovation from 9 am on 21st April. This year health, digital industries and green technologies will be the focus of this free event.
Two keynote speakers and high profile innovators, Nokia’s Director of Open Innovation and Academic Relations for their Research Centre Claudio Marinelli,, and ITV plc’s Product Innovation Lead Jon Block, will be sharing their knowledge and expertise, giving you a valuable insight into innovation at these companies both locally and globally.
You can experience innovation in practice at a number of workshops taking place throughout the day. Innovation experts will be demonstrating their skills on real companies who are looking to work through particular issues, as well as helping you to understand the process of innovating.
An array of local companies will be displaying and demonstrating their innovations in a dedicated exhibition throughout the day.
To book your place click here.
"Understanding Finance for Business" free workshops running until June 2010.
If you are starting or growing a business and you’re looking for funding of more than £10,000, you may need help to work through the different options to identify which type of funding will work best for your business. Grant? Bank? Friends & Family? Business angel? Venture Capitalist? There’s a bewildering choice of options, some of which come with strings attached.
If you need to learn more about funding sign up for “Understanding Finance for Business” and you’ll get the answers you need from experts in business finance. This programme is free and starts with an informative and interactive workshop before progressing to more detailed workshops and/or mentoring.
There are spaces on workshops in Luton (27 April), Ipswich, Chelmsford, Stevenage, Cambridge and Norwich. For testimonials, dates and venues and to sign up visit: http://www.eeda.org.uk/understandingfinance
Do you need funding for a research or development project? If so, grant funding could be your answer. The East of England Development Agency’s (EEDA) extensive grant funding programme includes £5.5m from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) that is ring-fenced to invest in the Research and Development (R&D) of technology-led solutions for a low carbon future.
As with the core programme, grants range from £5,000 to £250,000 and are awarded to entrepreneurs or companies wishing to develop a prototype or investigate the feasibility of an innovative technology.
EEDA’s green grants panel meets every
fortnight to evaluate applications, and they’ve already approved £1m of funding
so far this year. So don’t delay.
For more information and to download a pre-application form, please visit http://www.bizmapeast.co.uk/low_carbon.aspx
