Education Incubator

Education IncubatorStudent-led grants

Wellbeing Inclusion and Culture Committee and Exeter Education Incubator student-led funding 2024-2025

The Wellbeing Inclusion and Culture Committee and Exeter Education Incubator are collaborating with the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team to offer student-led microgrants that respond to this years’ four themes:  

  • Anti-racism and inclusivity 
  • Disability and accessibility  
  • Gender Safety 
  • LGBTQIA + Representation 

The microgrant funding provides an opportunity for our University of Exeter students to deliver their student-led projects that foster and develop student belonging at the university. 

We invite students to apply to our student-led microgrant with project ideas and solutions that 

  • Align with the four themes and/or, 
  • Focus on the intersections between the four themes e.g. disability and accessibility and gender safety. 

Students can typically apply for funds to deliver a project up to £5000. Projects and funding must be completed by 31st July 2025. 

What are we looking for?  

To be successful you will have: 

  • Identified a clear need, challenge or problem affecting students that is practical to address. 
  • An innovative approach to solving the need, challenge or problem. 
  • Developed a clear plan and timeline for how project activities within the project will contribute to solving this challenge or problem. 
  • Demonstrate impact through the outcome of the planned project activities. 
  • Build upon previous funded student-led projects and the equality, diversity, and inclusion activities delivered across the whole of the University. 

If successful student project teams will receive: 

  • Project funding to pay for any identified costs to deliver activities within your project plan, and for you and your nominated team’s time to deliver the project. 
  • Support and structured approach to developing your solution from the Exeter Education Incubator, and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team.
  • Access to institutional knowledge to make change through supportive networks. 
  • Support available to explore sustainable funding streams

Writing an application  

Students will need to complete a project application form that aligns with our selection criteria below and clearly outlines an identified student challenge, a developed project plan, and a timeline that will demonstrate how the project will contribute to solving the challenge including a budget of associated costs of the activities within the project. 

Selection Criteria 

Please read the selection criteria that the panel review will use to judge your application. This information will also help you focus your written project bid for the application. 

  1. Project focuses on one theme or an intersection of themes within the student journey. 
  2. Project is student-centric in nature and driven by a need identified by students. 
  3. Project is collaborative in nature. 
  4. Application thoughtfully considers assumptions of their project?  
  5. Application thoughtfully considers how they are defining success for their project?  
  6. Application thoughtfully considers possible ethical implications of their project?  

What we can offer applicants who are preparing to apply? 

Drop in's and workshops to help you

  • Plan and build a project. 
  • Support you in your application writing and determining budgets. 
  • Connect you with staff and students delivering inclusion and belonging activities across the university. 

Please complete this form to get further information on the drop-in sessions and workshop opportunities https://forms.office.com/e/y9uMb16jPQ 

How to apply?

Complete our application form: Student-led Microgrant Application

Deadline for all applications: 5pm Monday 17th March 2025

All applications received will then go to a staff and student panel review.  

 

If you have any questions, please email the Experimentation and Innovation Manager Kerry Deacon k.r.deacon@exeter.ac.uk