ESBF is the registered charity that promotes business education for engineers and scientists. Each year, it awards £800,000+ in Sainsbury Management Fellows scholarships to talented and committed individuals to study for an MBA at the world’s leading business schools.
Members of ESBF (who are known as Sainsbury Management Fellows) have each received a Sainsbury Management Scholarship which enabled them to study for an MBA at a leading international business school.
Recognising the benefits of introducing young people to business at an early stage, ESBF also partners with more than 50 UK universities to sponsor enterprise competitions to reward talented engineers and scientists.
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An Imperial College London graduate whose childhood friend died from a night-time seizure is taking an innovative wearable designed to improve epilepsy monitoring to the national stage.
A mechanical engineering graduate who struggled to keep his night guard clean and dry has developed a new device designed to make maintaining removable oral appliances simpler and more effective.
A University of Exeter PhD student is developing a technology designed to harness naturally occurring viruses to tackle antibiotic resistance.
A Southampton postgraduate who witnessed the devastating impact of malaria while growing up in Cameroon is taking an innovative new approach to tackling the disease to the national stage.
A Durham University computer science student who applied for around 100 jobs, placements and internships has turned his own experience of the recruitment process into an AI-powered employability platform.Isaac Kennington, 20, is the founder of CVSuite.ai – an online platform designed to help students and graduates improve and tailor their CVs and job applications, while giving university careers teams live insight into where students are struggling.Isaac is one of ten STEM-focused finalists in November’s ESBF Champion of Champions competition, where he will compete with the innovation’s design lead and fellow Durham computer science student Eila O’Connor, 20 – who has also recently won two BFI moving image awards.The competition is the culmination of scores of university enterprise competitions that have taken place across the UK, funded by business education charity ESBF (Engineers and Scientists in Business Fellowship).Nearly one million UK 16-24-year-olds are currently not in…
A Queen’s University Belfast medical student has developed an AI-powered platform that allows aspiring doctors to practise clinical consultations with animated virtual patients – helping them identify what they may have missed before they face real patients.
An education technology business developed by two University of Birmingham students has been acquired in a deal reportedly worth eight figures – just three years after its founders won an ESBF-funded university enterprise competition.
The UK’s next generation of entrepreneurs will go head-to-head this November as ten student innovations reach the final of the ESBF Champion of Champions competition.
Sainsbury Management Fellows Simran and Krsna Mohnani made history together as the first sisters from Malta studying at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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