{"id":913220,"date":"2026-04-23T12:07:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/913220\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:07:30","slug":"applications-open-for-the-2026-return-of-ideas-with-impact-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/913220\/","title":{"rendered":"Applications open for the 2026 return of Ideas with Impact Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\">The\u00a0University\u2019s\u00a0Ideas with Impact Awards\u00a0have\u00a0opened applications for 2026.\u00a0Made possible by donors to\u00a0our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchester.ac.uk\/give\/innovation-and-enterprise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Challenge Accepted<\/a>\u00a0campaign,\u00a0the awards will\u00a0provide\u00a0prizes of\u00a0up to \u00a3100,000\u00a0to\u00a0entrepreneurial\u00a0students,\u00a0staff\u00a0and recent alumni, enabling Manchester\u2019s best founders\u00a0to turn their\u00a0early-stage\u00a0ideas into\u00a0real ventures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\">The\u00a0awards support\u00a0entrepreneurs with\u00a0solutions to\u00a0the world\u2019s most pressing issues.\u00a0Ideas with Impact\u00a0is open to applications from\u00a0innovators\u00a0across all disciplines\u00a0\u2013 from engineering to health,\u00a0and policy to creative.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\">Through generous donor support\u00a0there is a total of \u00a3300,000\u00a0in prize funding\u00a0available,\u00a0and\u00a0individual awards of \u00a3100,000,\u00a0\u00a375,000\u00a0and \u00a350,000\u00a0will be given to winners,\u00a0who will also receive support from experienced mentors to build their networks\u00a0and\u00a0accelerate impact.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        &#8216;;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0University\u2019s\u00a0Ideas with Impact Awards\u00a0have\u00a0opened applications for 2026.\u00a0Made possible by donors to\u00a0our\u00a0Challenge Accepted\u00a0campaign,\u00a0the awards will\u00a0provide\u00a0prizes of\u00a0up to \u00a3100,000\u00a0to\u00a0entrepreneurial\u00a0students,\u00a0staff\u00a0and recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[7778,197026,748,393,4884,13,1302,2465,16,220110,15,29191],"class_list":["post-913220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-news","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-headlines","tag-innovation","tag-manchester","tag-uk","tag-unit-m","tag-united-kingdom","tag-university-of-manchester"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116453942783804101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}