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Entrepreneurial Education Fund 2025-2026: form and guidance
Information about applying for funding to deliver entrepreneurial education to young people in Scotland. This fund is open from 22 July to 27 August 2025.
Funding criteria
Warning
This fund closes to applications at 10am on 27 August 2025.
Successful proposals will typically demonstrate:
- strong impact potential by clearly showing how they will strengthen the entrepreneurial mindset in young people, improve access to expertise, create valuable connections, develop new resources, or address specific gaps
- innovation in approach through fresh thinking in education and training, meta skills development, inter-disciplinary learning ideas, other new types of support, or innovative delivery methods
- collaboration with partnership approaches bringing together different organisations or sectors for comprehensive support
- future planning via consideration of how impact might continue on a sustainable footing beyond the funding period, capturing learning, sharing resources, or developing sustainable networks
- diversity and inclusion by embedding principles of diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in project planning and development
We welcome projects which will embed entrepreneurial activity in the following areas:
- age 3 to18 entrepreneurial education programmes (equivalent to SCQF Levels 1- 7)
- vocational programmes (equivalent to SCQF Levels 7-8), focusing on practical and real-word training
This fund aims to create a comprehensive and supportive environment for developing entrepreneurial competence across these educational levels. It also aims to ensure that education and the economy benefit from enhanced collaboration and innovative learning opportunities.