Student teams offered £5000 for designing digital education enhancing technology

Teams of students will be offered £5000 for their technology projects designed to enhance the educational experience, in the Summer of Student Innovation Programme.

This opportunity is offered by the Future's Forum, a group of research and education organisations.

Andrew McGregor, a Future's Forum member said:

'We are offering £5,000 per student team, to develop new technology that could improve education, research and their studying life. The teams will be selected through an open call for ideas. Successful teams will also be given opportunities to join workshops to allow them to network with fellow students and experts to further their ideas.

'After the projects have run, the technology developed by the teams will be embedded for a trial period in volunteer education organisations. Products that are successful in the trials will be provided to other interested parties through sustainable routes.'

Quote from: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/digital-savvy-students-offered-5k-grants-20-may-2013 

The Summer of Student Innovation registration closed on the 21st June, and applications from over 30 student teams from various universities have been submitted.

Below is an application that received the required number of votes. It's a design for an opensource network building tool for students to share their research and notes.

The outcome of this year's competition can be found here from 1 July 2013.

Applications for the 2014 programme will be available from 1 February 2014. To enter or vote go to this website

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Source: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/digital-savvy-students-offered-5k-grants-20-may-2013