Edtech competition

Previously known as the Summer of Student Innovation, this project is in its fifth year and sees successful competition entrants receive a grant and support from Jisc to develop their education technology ideas.

Our competition is split into two: one for teams or individuals with a product already in development (startups competition) and one for brand new ideas from students (student ideas competition). 

Startups competition

Our startups competition gives individuals or teams an opportunity to develop their educational technology products that will benefit UK higher education, further education and skills. 

Successful teams will get access to an intensive business accelerator programme and provided with a support package to the value of £20,000 each, to allow them to develop their business and successfully deliver a useable product.

The winners

Thanks to all of the entrants who pitched at Digifest 2017. The winning startups are:

• Wildfire - the winners of the public vote
• Hubbub
• Lumici Slate
• Ublend
• VineUp

We were lucky to have a very strong shortlist, and as such, we will be looking for opportunities to bring the other startups into Jisc activities where possible and appropriate. Read more about the shortlisted entries.

You can follow the conversation on Twitter using #jiscstartups.

Student ideas competition

Our student ideas competition invites students to submit their own idea/s for how to use technology to make life better for the UK's learners, staff and researchers. The winning ideas all aim to solve big problems in the education sector that the students have experienced themselves. 

Due to of the success of the competition over the last few years we are delaying the opening date in order to focus on developing the successful ideas we currently have. The competition will return later in 2017 and continue to gather student ideas that will help improve the teaching and learning experience in further and higher education.  

Follow the conversation on Twitter using #studentideas.

Projects we are developing further

We're now working to develop several projects from previous competitions into products so that universities and colleges can reap the benefit of the students’ work.