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Emerge

Build Skills | Develop Ideas | Launch Ventures

Welcome to our enterprising community!

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What's on?

Take a look at our range of skill-building workshops, inspirational fireside chats and special events with a host of guest speakers.
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Join our community

The Emerge: Be enterprising community is a welcoming community for students, recent graduates and staff who are looking to become more enterprising.

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Enterprise Support

Alongside our group sessions, our expert team offer one-to-one support for project leaders and founding teams in their mission to solve problems and forge successful ventures.
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The Spark Podcast 
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Visit our Start-up Studio 

Alumni Mentors

We have a range of incredible alumni entrepreneurs that help to inspire our community .
Are you an alumni founder and would you like to be a mentor, feature on our podcast, or lead a workshop?

Complete our Alumni expression of interest form

News

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The elite award showcase rewarding the founders of the future

The Emerge: Be enterprising Awards Showcase live event saw 7 ambitious young entrepreneurs pitch their innovations to regional investors and business leaders, celebrating a year of intensive business development.
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Shining a spotlight on Sheffield's best young entrepreneurs

The 2026 Awards Showcase Winners have been selected and the countdown to the Emerge Awards Showcase 2026 has officially started! Learn about the competition showcasing the best entrepreneurial minds from the University of Sheffield.

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(LtoR) ProtoGT Founders Edward George and William Toms

From bedroom to boardroom: enterprising student duo set up thriving Sheffield business

An entrepreneurial student duo has built their fledgling engineering firm from a bedroom startup to a full-scale city centre operation - all while balancing the demands of their Master’s degree studies.
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Grit, Pivot, Profit: The Apprentice challenge crowns new winner after 10 business days

After ten intense days of selling, creating, and pivoting, we can confirm that multiple teams made over £100 in profit—but only one team's grit and creativity secured them the coveted Apprentice Challenge title and prize!
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