IdeasLab offers NUI Galway students a place to cultivate their curiosity and ideation; to support their creativity and innovation and to activate their entrepreneurship skills. Our IdeasLab programmes, are open to all students from any year or course. IdeasLab supports students to ‘Design with Others’, offering activities that empower students to design their future during and after their time at NUI Galway. Whether meeting new people, developing skills, working to solve global challenges or setting up a business is your aim, IdeasLab is the place to start. How we can support you: Enterprise Challenges: Students work with our industry partners to solve real world problems. Participants receive training in team building, design thinking, business modelling, and storytelling. Each team will also visit and receive mentorship from our industry partners. Our partners include Aerogen, Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Mbryonics, Galway International Arts Festival, Veryan, SAP, Rent the Runway and Channel Mechanics. Internship programme: The internship programme is a 10 week paid experience for students in NUI Galway. Internships are competitively awarded each semester. Empathy Lab: The Empathy Lab is a physical lab in the NUI Galway campus that has empathy tools and frameworks to support students in developing their empathic skills and create human centric solutions to real world problems. Coaching and Mentoring: Mentoring forms part of all curricular and co-curricular programmes within the IdeasLab in addition to being a bookable service for students, Innovation Sandbox: The innovation sandbox is a testing and prototyping environment where the IdeasLab team work with industry to test and validate projects. Start100 Summer Accelerator: The Start100 programme is open to teams of students with an early-stage business idea. Support provided to the teams includes space, funding, mentorship, and access to networks of alumni, partners, and investors.