Enterprise Educators UK’s Annual Conference

IEEC2025 – Manchester Metropolitan University

Wednesday 10th September – Friday 12th September 2025

Further details about our 2025 conference will be available here in due course. We can’t wait to welcome you to Manchester next September!

IEEC2024, 4-6 September 2024

A shot of delegates at IEEC2024 crossing from one building to another. They are smiling and the sun is shining.
Guests at the IEEC2024 Gala Dinner, listening to the announcement of the National Enterprise Educators Awards. Everyone is very smart.
Three delegates at IEEC2024, laughing and in conversation. They are in the Queen's University Business School and the sun is shining outside.

Thank you to all those who joined us at IEEC2024 in Belfast, and especially to our host Queen’s University Belfast, and partners Visit Belfast and Innocare. The conference programme is still available here, and photos from all three days of the event are here. 

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If your organisation is interested in sponsorship & exhibitor opportunities at IEEC, please contact Conference Director Rob Edwards at rob@enterprise.ac.uk

About IEEC

IEEC is highly regarded for its participatory style with a wide range of educator-led interactive sessions and seminars as well as keynotes led by inspirational experts from across the world.

A snapshot of the IEEC community:

  • HE and FE enterprise and entrepreneurship educators and practitioners working inside or outside the curriculum
  • Incubator and enterprise centre managers, project managers, business support professionals and others who are supporting start up and growth
  • Careers and employability professionals – particularly those interested in the contribution that enterprise makes to employability
  • Senior leaders in HE and FE who influence policy and strategy related to enterprise and entrepreneurship education
  • Policy makers who have influence over the provision of enterprise and entrepreneurship education
  • Researcher developers – particularly those interested in developing enterprising attributes in early career researchers
  • Knowledge transfer professionals – particularly those who support academics to develop the skills they need to maximise the impact of their research

IEEC is organised annually by Enterprise Educators UK – find out more about EEUK here.