All-Innovate is Oxford University's inter-college idea competition for the WHOLE University
All-Innovate is Oxford's inter-college competition run by the Oxford Foundry in partnership with Oxford colleges. Students (undergraduate, postgraduate and DPhil) pitch entrepreneurial ideas for a chance to win a top prize of £10,000 prize money, and two runner-up prizes of £5,000 each.
For 2021, All-Innovate will be moving online and running across Hilary AND Trinity term. We will be announcing two rounds of winners during the academic year, with £20,000 being awarded in both Hilary and Trinity term. The top prize will be awarded to the best overall idea with runner up prizes being awarded to best undergraduate and best postgraduate ideas. In 2021 All-Innovate is delivered in collaboration with EY.
This year, ALL applicants will be offered a place on a one-day intensive virtual bootcamp to help them all to develop their ideas. Our judges will shortlist the top two applications from each college. These teams will be invited to a virtual selection round in which they will pitch their ideas and receive further mentoring, from this point, the final 10 will go on to pitch at the All-Innovate final.
The competition aims to encourage ALL students at Oxford, regardless of discipline, to develop an entrepreneurial skill set and generate entrepreneurial ideas. Inclusivity and diversity are at the forefront of the All-Innovate ethos.
Prizes
🏆 Best Idea, awarded £10,000 of grant funding: This is the best overall idea, and can be awarded to a team from either level
🏆 Best Undergraduate Idea, awarded £5,000 of grant funding
🏆 Best Postgraduate Idea, awarded £5,000 of grant funding
Read the All-Innovate competition FAQs
Read about All-Innovate 2019/2020
Read about All-Innovate 2018/19
2020/21 Key dates
Michaelmas 2020
18 December - College deadline to opt-in
Hilary 2021
18th January - Student entries open.
14th Feb - Deadline to be considered in Hilary term
19th Feb - Idea Development Bootcamp for all entries
4th March – Selection Bootcamp - final 10 announced
11th March - Hilary Final and Winners Announced
Trinity 2021
w/c 15 March - entries open for Trinity term
23rd May - Entries close for the academic year
27th May - Idea Development Bootcamp for all entries
10th June Selection Bootcamp - final 10 announced
17th June - Trinity Final and Winners Announced
2020-2021 Participating colleges. *NB if your college isn't list you can still enter through the Oxford Foundry. Colleges not listed here can still participate in Trinity 2021.
COLLEGE
Brasenose
Christ Church
Corpus Christi
Exeter
Green Templeton
Harris Manchester
Hertford
Jesus
Keble
Kellogg
Lady Margaret Hall
Linacre
Lincoln
Magdalen
Mansfield
Merton
New
Oriel
Somerville
St Anne's
St Antony's
St Catherine's
St Cross
St Edmund Hall
St Hilda's
St Hugh's
St John's
St Peter'
Trinity
University
Wolfson
Delivered in collaboration with EY
Thank you
All-Innovate 2021 is delivered in collaboration with EY
I strongly believe that SeaStrong and the All-Innovate competition were an essential part of my Oxford experience. It was fun and it contributed a lot to my personal growth, plus exposed me to a lot of skills that will help me professionally too – like delivering a pitch in front of CEOs, lecturers and fellow students!”
ISADORA OLIVEIRA, MBA STUDENT, SOMERVILLE COLLEGE
ISADORA OLIVEIRA, MBA STUDENT, SOMERVILLE COLLEGE
My Cofounder Inna and I first met when we were competing against each other as finalists in the Oxford Foundry’s All-Innovate competition. Back then we were both working on completely different ideas leading different teams.I felt early on that combining our expertise had great potential for an exciting new venture in the personalised neurology space. And this was it, Neurolytic Healthcare was born! Over the next few weeks I recruited a diverse team of seven PhD students from Oxford that would allow us to turn our idea into reality.
The Oxford Foundry offers a place for students to gather with purpose, to grow their ideas with like-minded people, eager to apply their talents to enterprising initiatives. It has been wonderful to see so many Somervillians seize the chance to be a part of this entrepreneurial community, particularly through the Foundry’s first inter-college ideas competition, All-Innovate.”
“It is not always easy to make the leaps of faith which produce entrepreneurial ideas. I am enormously impressed at how the Oxford Foundry has provided students and alumni with a forum
in which to do this, empowering them with both confidence and the courage to innovate, that can only come from thinking and working together in a multidisciplinary and supportive environment.”
in which to do this, empowering them with both confidence and the courage to innovate, that can only come from thinking and working together in a multidisciplinary and supportive environment.”