Experience Ventures
Interested in making an impact on your career? Why wait until graduation? Get an edge on your future. Experience Ventures creates paid entrepreneurial thinking placements for college and university students with innovative companies in Canada.
What to expect
Our goal is to inspire your creativity, resiliency and future vision—so you can shape your future with the right skill set.
Experience Ventures offers five types of entrepreneurial thinking placements.
Hack-a-Thon
A one- to two-day event in which companies present students with real world challenges and ask them to provide innovative solutions.
Challenges
Taking place over several weeks, these require students to build out more complete solutions to social, business, design or community challenges.
Projects
Companies present students with a specific project, and the school matches it to talent from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds.
Student-in-Residence
Students selected by the incubator receive unique opportunities to work with several companies over the course of a term.
Interdisciplinary Team
Incubators create teams of students from more than one discipline and provide them with a project for a venture or group of ventures.
Community
Network and meet industry leaders and employers to help you become future ready by developing the skills and mindset to thrive in the innovation economy.
Leadership development
You will also develop leadership and manage people working as a group.
Growth frameworks
Explore Canada’s evolving innovation economy to help you become future ready.
Milestone driven
Make an impact alongside real-world innovators to hone your entrepreneurial thinking skills and work on projects with new companies and technologies that are shaping the future.
Timeline
Applications open
Experience Ventures will open throughout the year but it varies depending on the placement type.
Application process
To apply to Experience Ventures, email us at yspace@yorku.ca for more details and find out how you can qualify for the program.
Program eligibility
- A registered student and enrolled in any full-time or part-time program at York University
- A Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person to whom refugee protection has been conferred under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
- Legally entitled to work in Canada in accordance with relevant provincial or territorial legislation and regulations
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To apply to Experience Ventures, email us at yspace@yorku.ca
for more details and find out how you can qualify for the program.
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For more information, please contact us at
yspace@yorku.ca
416-736-2100 ext. 44940
