National and Regional Initiatives Sample Clauses
National and Regional Initiatives. Throughout the period of this agreement the College will lead and contributes to a number of significant national and regional initiatives directed towards creating a more successful and entrepreneurial economy. Dundee and Angus College was successful in accessing £200k ERDF funding to provide the framework for building an entrepreneurial culture within the College. This was further enhanced by the provision of capital funding through ERDF Urban Regeneration fund and from match funding from Abertay University. A total of £1.1m was levered into the College from these sources as a result of the College’s investment of match funding of £450k to create an incubation facility, EnterpriseD&A within the College’s Gardyne Campus. Since its inception in November 2015, a total of 42 individuals from 26 start-up businesses have been located in the incubator. Currently, 17 individuals from 12 businesses are located within the incubator. The majority are former D&A College students and all have been allocated a mentor to support the progression of their businesses. Supported by a range of partners including FSB, Dundee City Council’s EZone team and Elevator Business Gateway complementing the College’s own advisory support for students to create business plans to turn their business ideas into viable businesses. An extensive range of enterprise and entrepreneurial activity is undertaken across the college each year, with a specific focus on encouraging entrepreneurial mindsets and experience for students. This has generated a total of 15 curriculum supported businesses enabled by funding awarded by the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Trust. In addition, a further trust funding award coupled with a donation from a Corporate Sponsor, is enabling the College to develop a mobile Food to Go Vehicle and innovation resource to support student Enterprise and to attract new recruits for courses and employability opportunities, particularly within high demand skill areas. Enterprise D&A has offered 19 workshops during session 2017-18 which realised 390 bookings. 2/3 of which were from students and 1/3 from the community. We also had an Enterprise Dragons competition which realised 25 applications. Funding of £18k was sourced from external industry sponsors and enabled a cash injection to be awarded to 22 start-up and early stage businesses. All of this activity is overseen by an External Enterprise Advisory Board which is chaired and run by industry. The board’s role is to keep the Enterprise activity on...
National and Regional Initiatives. Throughout the period of this agreement the College will lead and contributes to a number of significant national and regional initiatives directed towards creating a more successful and entrepreneurial economy. Dundee and Angus College was successful in accessing £200k ERDF funding to provide the framework for building an entrepreneurial culture within the College. This was further enhanced by the provision of capital funding through ERDF Urban Regeneration fund and from match funding from Abertay University. A total of £1.1m was levered into the College from these sources as a result of the College’s investment of match funding of £450k to create an incubation facility, EnterpriseD&A within the College’s Gardyne Campus. This has resulted in the College devoting a 0.5FTE Project Leader from with the College’s External Relations Team to work with academic and support teams across the College to increase enterprise activities and enable the creation of potential start-up businesses by College students. Since its inception in November 2015, a total of 24 individuals from 17 start up businesses have been located in the incubator. Currently, 12 individuals from 8 businesses are located within the incubator. The majority are former D&A College students and all have been allocated a mentor to support the progression of their businesses. Supported by Bridge to Business, Dundee City Council’s EZone team and Elevator Business Gateway Advisory support is provided for students to create business plans to turn their business ideas into viable businesses. The College’s Arbroath Campus hosts an Enterprise@D&A facility supporting the Arbroath based students and the wider Angus business community with a business start-up location. A programme of 30-40 Enterprise workshops will be delivered across both facilities and within the Kingsway Campus. Workshops include advice to those considering a business start idea as well as providing support to early stage businesses to grow, network and develop. These support students who have a business idea to consider how they can turn that idea into a viable business and who can progress from the workshops into taking space within the incubator. The College is also supporting the establishment of a number of social enterprises to create community businesses of scale within key areas of the curriculum including hospitality, valeting, computing, business, design, engineering and supported education. The College has established a fund supp...