Test the potential of your entrepreneurial ideas, and learn what’s involved in setting up a business, social enterprise or freelancing venture, with these practical programmes.
Explore your entrepreneurial idea
For: All students, staff and recent graduates
Location: UCL East or UCL BaseKX, 103c Camley Street, London N1C 4PF
Duration: 6 weeks (2.5 hours a week)

You'll work alongside other entrepreneurs to sharpen your skills, stress test your ideas and establish a market for your business or social enterprise.
You'll also have the chance to win a share of £3,000 prize money.
SPERO Learn: How to create a business or social enterprise
For: All for all research students, early career researchers, and recent research graduates
Location: Online or UCL BaseKX, 103c Camley Street, London N1C 4PF
Duration: 21 hours (over a number of days)

You'll learn how to establish an impactful startup or social enterprise, or an enterprising project within a bigger organisation (academia or industry).
Find out more about SPERO Learn.
Work on your ideas
If you want to develop an idea before attending these programmes, you could:
- generate, evaluate and refine entrepreneurial ideas on our 3-hour Ideation and business concept development workshop.
- stress test ideas for a new business or social enterprise on our 2-hour Business idea testing and validation workshop.