Launch your next big idea with confidence
Regional Talent Engines is a unique 6-month programme designed to help early-stage engineering and technology entrepreneurs, based in Northern England, Northern Ireland and Wales build the foundations for a successful start-up. You’ll receive expert mentoring, practical training, and £20,000 funding to support your progress.
The programme includes training held in central locations in Belfast, Swansea, Leeds, Liverpool and Newcastle.
By the end of the programme, you will be ready and equipped to seek further support for your new startup or pitch for your first investment to bring your innovation to market.
Our impact
Regional Talent Engines was launched in 2022 and is proud to have invested training and mentoring into early-stage founders with potential startup ideas in engineering and technology. Through our programmes, we have helped:
early-stage founders
further startup funding gained
new jobs created
started hiring
Our promise to you
A place on the programme includes:
- an equity-free grant of £20,000 towards living costs
- training workshops, roundtables and speaker events in a location close to you: Belfast, Swansea, Leeds, Liverpool and Newcastle
- one-to-one business coaching and mentoring
- free, lifetime access to our co-working spaces across the UK
- a ready-made community of ambitious founders and innovators
Places on the programme are awarded without any fees and we do not take any equity. Each region will deliver the programme with slight differences but the same objectives.
Who is the programme for?
You might be in a job right now or just stepping away from one. Maybe you’ve had an idea for a while but haven’t had the time, resources, or confidence to pursue it.
Regional Talent Engines is designed for engineers and innovators with an early-stage idea.
You don’t need a team, a product, or a business plan, just a promising idea, a problem worth solving, and the motivation to make it happen.
We support:
- new innovations from any area of engineering
- original ideas for scalable businesses
- Engineers and tech innovators who are committed to testing and developing their idea
Please see the guidance notes for the full eligibility criteria.
Your journey
One-to-one pre-interview support to perfect your pitch with 3 online training sessions
A pitch presentation of your proposal with a Q&A session with an interview panel
Tailored training sessions throughout the course of the six-month programme
Deep dives and coaching with experienced professionals and experts
The Regional Talent Engines programme is made possible by the generous support of our sponsors:
The Academy have made an assessment of the Regional Talent Engines against the principles of the Subsidy Control Act 2022 and have made this assessment available. The Scheme has also been published on the transparency database (SC10941).