Government Launches Student Enterprise Programme for 2023

The Government have launched the 21st Student Enterprise Programme, Ireland’s largest student entrepreneurial programme. An initiative of the Local Enterprise Offices to encourage entrepreneurship in secondary schools, the Student Enterprise Programme has seen over 325,000 secondary school students take part in the programme since it first began, with over 25,000 participants expected this year.

Participating students will compete across three categories, Junior (1st year), Intermediate (2nd and 3rd year) and Senior (4th, 5th and 6th year, LVA, LCA and Youth Outreach). Each student enterprise is challenged with creating, setting up and running their own business, which must show viable sales of their service or product. Following county and regional finals Student Enterprises from across the country will take part in the Final at Croke Park on Friday 5th May.

For more information on the Student Enterprise Programme, or to view the winners of previous years' competitions, please click here.