Login with email
Becoming Europe’s most inclusive and impactful innovation network? Challenge accepted.
For 200 years, the University of Manchester has been a powerhouse of bold ideas rooted in care for our community. We’ve always pushed boundaries – and we’re still doing it today.
At Manchester, innovation starts with people – their bold ways of thinking, their questions, and their drive to make a difference.
Every year, thousands of students and researchers arrive here full of ambition. Many have big ideas – but face barriers to turning them into ventures that change lives. Some don’t know where to start. Others lack funding, guidance or confidence.
By building a University-wide innovation ecosystem that helps people take action, build capability and grow their ideas, we're changing that. From student-led start-ups to civic collaborations, we’re opening doors for everyone to contribute to progress.
“If you give people the freedom of having funding, you’re giving them free rein to deploy it with a sense of responsibility.
What philanthropy provided for me was the option to create something that would shape the direction we wanted to go in. I’m very thankful for that.”
Seb Leaper, Founder and CEO of Watercycle Technologies, winner of the donor-funded Eli and Britt Harari Graphene Enterprise Award
Your support today will help scale up these opportunities, reach more aspiring innovators, and turn ideas into impact faster for the benefit of us all.
Together, we’re not just shaping the future of innovation. We’re defining it.