The Summer of Student Innovation is a Jisc co-design project developed with our strategic partners across higher education, further education and skills.
The competition, in its fourth year, sees successful entrants receive a grant and support from Jisc to develop their education technology ideas, with the aim of improving students’ creative design, research, entrepreneurial and project management skills.
Student ideas competition 2016
The following seven student ideas winners have secured further funding and support from Jisc to develop their ideas into real products ready for market.
- Augmented Reality App, London School of Economics
An augmented reality app to provide visitors and students with digital content enhancing campus experience - Mappademia, University of Manchester
A software tool which allows small project groups to generate their own mapping applications - Stuiz, University Of Bath
Stuiz allows students studying similar courses to compete against each other in quizzes with course-specific content - Your Book List, University of Glasgow
Connects students buying and selling books at the same university to get the best deal - arHive; The collective archive, University of Leicester
A collective archive of high-quality crowdsourced scanned pages uploaded to a cloud service to share knowledge - Know it Wall, University College London
A virtual place for academics to popularise their research - Survey Exchange, University of Central Lancashire
Survey Exchange enables students to find all the answers they need for their surveys using a unique point system
As well as up to £10,000 to collaborate with us and develop their idea further, the teams will also get first-hand experience of creative design, research, entrepreneurism and project management.
The winning ideas all aim to solve big problems in the education sector that the students have experienced themselves.
Student ideas - full list of winners
Click on each of the ideas to see full details on our Elevator site.
acHack, University of Nottingham
A user-generated, user-aggregated search engine for university students.
arHive; The collective archive, University of Leicester
A collective archive of high-quality crowdsourced scanned pages uploaded to a cloud service to share knowledge.
Augmented Reality App, London School of Economics
Augmented reality app to provide visitors and students with digital content enhancing campus experience.
Check, University of Sheffield
Allows you to find a vacant seat/room in university library, and monitor signups and attendance of lectures and events.
Course Match, Bangor University
An app to aid students in the difficult process of University course selection, implementing a familiar 'Tinder' user interface.
FunStudyApp, University of Hertfordshire
Leverages on students' interests and hobbies to transform lecture notes into animations, poetry, music and mnemonics.
Know it Wall, University College London
A virtual place for academics to popularise their research.
mappademia, University of Manchester
A software tool which would allow small project groups to generate their own mapping applications.
MentorIN, University of Edinburgh
Allows users to find a suitable mentor and creates the perfect context for them to exchange information.
pencilBox: anonymous course rankings and statistics, University of Essex
An app to display rankings and statistics of a student's grades on an anonymous basis, based on a statistical engine.
Shout Out, Yeovil College
An app to allow learners with disabilities to share issues and get support.
Stuiz, University Of Bath
An app that allows students studying similar courses to compete against each other in quizzes with course-specific content.
Stutor, London School of Economics
Get help from other students in the UK through our application. Everybody can be a tutor!
Survey Exchange, University of Central Lancashire
Enables students to find all the answers they need for their surveys using a unique point system.
Your Book List, University of Glasgow
Connects students buying and selling books at the same university to get the best deal.
Technology startup projects 2016
We announced the four winners of our supporting technology startup projects on 7 July 2016. Full details can be found below.
Technology startup projects - winners
Click on each of the ideas to see full details on our Elevator site.
HackScience: Bringing research to the world faster, Imperial College London
A platform and support to help researchers build and share affordable lab automation tools.
MakerClub, MakerClub
A product design platform to inspire the next generation of inventors and creatives.
OMNI, University of Bristol
A low cost multi-function learning tool engaging students in manufacturing and programming.
Unique Insights: Analytics for a Smooth Transition, Unique Student Access Ltd
A data analytics tool to help identify students most likely to drop out in the first few weeks of starting a course and highlight which key area of support they need.
Projects we are developing further
Alongside those selected from the 2016 competition (listed above), we are working to develop several projects from previous competitions into products so that universities and colleges can reap the benefit of the students’ work.
Student projects currently being supported
- Call for Participants - Where researchers and participants meet - providing a secure and trusted connection between researchers and participants
- Lingoflow - A language vocabulary learning app
- Startwrite - A web app to help students stay organised and get assignments done on time
- UniBoard - Online noticeboard to connect university students
- Unisocs - Subject-specific discussion and progress tracking for students
- Unitu - A feedback tool to listen and engage with the student voice through student representatives
Previous competitions
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