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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.
What funding can be used for
Warning
This fund closes to applications at 10am on 27 August 2025.
We are particularly interested in projects that focus on the following areas:
- entrepreneurial skills development: initiatives that enhance the entrepreneurial mindset through the development of meta-skills such as problem-solving, creativity, leadership, and communication
- mentorship and industry engagement: projects to bridge the gap between learning and real-world business practice
- teacher education and capacity building: initiatives that focus on teacher professional learning and empowerment in schools and colleges (excluding capital projects)
- inter-disciplinary development: creation of new programmes that take a cross-curriculum approach or integrate disciplines to enhance pupils’ and students’ entrepreneurial mindset
- research and practical initiatives: projects aimed at making recommendations designed to bridge gaps in entrepreneurship education for early learning and childcare (ELC), primary, secondary and/or in tertiary settings
- networking and collaboration: building stronger networks and forming new sustainable partnerships and connections
The fund will not support projects or programmes related solely in relation business start-up, incubation, enterprise creation, digital or computing skills or other entrepreneurial eco-system support.