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Working with universities

I work with universities across Europe helping the students to start their own businesses and train the trainers to help the students. I do that by running workshops, competitions and 1:1 mentoring sessions – in person or via Skype. No matter at what stage the students are in their start-up journey, I am helping them with my knowledge, my network and coaching skills. I am a trained Coach and NLP Practitioner. I have also published several books . In addition to that I am the Vice Preseident of the European Startup Association. If you are a university that would like to create or expand start-up support for students, please feel free to contact me. I am flexible in location and the way I work. I can either run workshops and 1:1 sessions in person or online – one off or continous support. Below I outline what I have done for other universities. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Your Marketing and Creative Start-Up Coach Christine

University of Essex

Here is a summary of what I am doing for the University of Essex:

  • Workshops during autumn and sprint term
  • Networking events
  • Competitions
  • 1:1 mentoring
  • Helping students to write business plans
  • Online webinars
  • Bootcamps
  • Creation of resources
  • £100 challenge (24 hour challenge)

You can have a look on their website to see the resources I created, photos and videos of events and success stories. Click here to view the website. Below a few videos of past events.

Christine Michaels, an enterprise officer, providing startup resources and entrepreneur support with startup tips.

Anglia Ruskin University

Here is a summary of what I am doing for the Anglia Ruskin University:

  • Seminar for ‘Be Your Own Boss’ series
  • Big Pitch judge
  • 1:1 mentoring
  • Helping students to write business plans

The Be Your Own Boss seminar series is running during autumn and spring term.

The Big Pitch is a follow up from the Little Pitch and is an event in which students can win investment into their businesses. It takes place once a year.

The mentoring sessions are once a month with the students and are conducted via Skype.

Helping them to write comprehensive business plans is also done remotely. Often they are done for Tier 1 applications.

A poster providing startup resources and support for entrepreneurs, with a picture of a woman.

Brusov State University, Yerevan

Running a 5-day boot camp in Yerevan for 24 teachers to train them so they can run the boot camps for their start-up students:

  • Teambuilding exercise
  • What is entrepreneurship
  • Communication skills
  • Idea generation
  • Business Modelling
  • Market and competitor analysis
  • Business values
  • Video Pitching
  • Pitching alternatives
  • Creativity exercises
  • Visionboarding
  • Minimum viable product
  • What do investors want
  • Story telling
  • Influencing
A group of women capturing a selfie during an entrepreneur support conference.

EMUNI

3-day workshop for 26 students that are doing a PG Certificate in entrepreneurship:

  • Business modelling
  • Market and competitor analysis
  • Pitching
  • Marketing principles
A group of people posing for a photo in a classroom, representing the startup support community.

Tbilisi State University

Running a 5-day boot camp in Tbilisi for 12 teachers to train them so they can run the boot camps for their start-up students:

  • Teambuilding exercise
  • What is entrepreneurship
  • Communication skills
  • Idea generation
  • Business Modelling
  • Market and competitor analysis
  • Business values
  • Video Pitching
  • Pitching alternatives
  • Creativity exercises
  • Visionboarding
  • Minimum viable product
  • What do investors want
  • Story telling
  • Influencing
A group of entrepreneurs posing for a photo.