Experience Ventures
Memorial University of Newfoundland is pleased to be a partner in Experience Ventures, powered by the Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking at the University of Calgary.
Experience Ventures enables you to make an impact alongside real-world innovators through entrepreneurial thinking placements.
We believe entrepreneurial thinking isn’t limited to a personality type or a discipline or to entrepreneurs alone. It’s an accessible set of skills that everyone can leverage to make an impact, big or small, in any career. The hallmarks of entrepreneurial thinking – creativity, resiliency and future vision – will be critical factors to ensuring Canada’s success today, and tomorrow.
The initiative has benefits for both students and companies:
- Become future ready. Students can hone the entrepreneurial and digital skills they’ll need in their careers. Participating companies benefit from fresh perspectives and insights at no cost.
- Make an impact. We’re energizing new companies with the next generation of talent, and innovating across disciplines to amplify impact.
Experience Ventures offers five different types of placements:
Experience type |
Description |
Hack-a-Thon or tech-a-thon |
A one- to two-day event in which companies present students with real world challenges and ask them to provide innovative solutions. |
Challenges |
Over several weeks, students are expected will build out more complete solutions on a business, design, social, or community problem(s). |
Projects |
Companies will work with students one-on-one on specific project(s) over the course of a semester. |
Interdisciplinary team |
Teams of students from two or more disciplines work together during the semester on a project for a venture or a group of ventures. |
Student-in-residence |
Students will receive the unique opportunity to work with several companies over the course of a semester. |
Students are paid through Experience Ventures while participating companies are asked to provide in-kind support, such as time or expertise.
The Experience Ventures program was extended and will run from Summer 2022 to Winter 2023 with 8 post-secondary school partnerships at program launch.
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Experience Ventures is funded in part by the Government of Canada's Innovative Work-Integrated Learning Initiative.