Graduate Student Innovation Scholars Go Virtual: The Fall cohort will be done completely online. Applications open June 1.
Graduate Student Innovation Scholars: Add value to your graduate degree & research...
Looking to add value to your graduate degree and to your research? Join Western’s cohort of Graduate Student Innovation Scholars! Receive a participation award of $500. Apply your discipline-specific knowledge and develop expertise in entrepreneurship, commercialization and knowledge transfer with hands-on training. Apply your knowledge. Apply today.
All workshops and lessons for Fall 2020 will be done virtually.
• Current Western graduate student
• Evidence of teamwork, creative thinking and presentation skills
• Any translational research, commercialization or entrepreneurship experience
• A $500 award, one term of training and a certificate of completion
• Expertise in commercialization, entrepreneurship and knowledge transfer
• Training for up to four teams of three
• Prizes for the teams with the best business plan and best pitch
• Fill out the application form and submit your CV, a 200-250-word statement of interest and a cover letter
Applications can be submitted from Monday, June 1 and are due by midnight on Wednesday, July 15, 2020.
Interviews will be conducted in late July/early August and the program will start in September.
To learn more about the Graduate Student Innovation Scholars program or ask any questions, please email sis@uwo.ca.
You can download the program DRAFT syllabus for FALL 2020 here. The Student and Faculty Acknowledgement contains a little more detail on the program and will have to be signed by selected participants prior to the start of the program and supervisor signature is highly encouraged but not mandatory - you can read it here.
The Student Success Centre can provide help and support such as:
