Applicants should complete the online application form which will help us to assess your entrepreneurial experience to date, and what you learned from it, as well as the things that you personally can bring to the cohort. This is important as we'll be looking to pull together the most diverse cohort possible, so we'd advise you to think about what already makes you distinctive and make sure you mention it.

If you look like you've got a lot to offer and to gain from the Fellowship opportunity, we will invite you to attend a short interview, so we can dig a little deeper into what you've told us in your application form.

Before we make our final selection, we'll also ensure all the necessary right to work checks are completed too. Once everything looks clear, we'll announce the final selection.

We will provide you with some basic constructive feedback on your application whether you are succesful or not. However, if you are not, please understand that this may be simply to do with your potential fit with other applicants to make a cohort, as opposed to some particular weakness or area of under-performance.

We'll let you know if this is the case and keep your record on file for consideration when future opportunies arise. Depending on their similarity to the original opportunity, you may not need to submit a new application, but this is not guaranteed.

All the payment processes and salary standards are managed via the University's Employment & Recruitent Service (ERS) and therefore ensures an hourly rate in line with the National Living Wage. This typically equates to £10 per hour, so if you do complete the full 100-hours available, you will be paid £1,000 over the course of the programme.

Please note payments are made on a monthly basis, based on submission of a weekly time-sheet directly into your bank account.

Every programme will be different, depending on the geographical focus of the Innovation Catalyst you are attached to. Also, every member of your cohort will be have a different study timetable around which they need to fit their fellowship work. For these reasons, we will adopt a blended approach, enabling you take full advantage of the flexibility and accessibility of online interaction via MS Teams, while also ensuring you can engage in-person where appropriate.

Where in-person activities require you to attend a location other the LU campus, travel expenses will be paid upon submission of relevant receipts.

Unfortuntately not. This is because there is only funding available for a limited number of fellowships and we want as many people as possible to be able to benefit from them.

The development programme is a core component of the fellowship opportunity and part of what makes it unique. Because you will be operating as a cohort, and we want the cohort to be as unified and capable as possible, all members must attend all parts of it. Your availability to do this will be a factor in your selection.

For all the same reasons, it is not possible to just attend the development programme and skip the work-based component.

Typically EA cohorts comprise of 10 people, although this can vary in line with the number of SMEs engaged in the Innovation Catalyst. While you will be doing a lot of things as a whole group, once you are engaged in the work-based element, you are likely to split yourselves up into smaller teams and task-groups according to requirements. You might work closely with just a couple of other members of the cohort, or with lots, depending on where you personally are considered to add most value.