Revolutionary partnership

The INCiTE Summer School is a partfunded, two-week course in Southeast Asia, where students collaborate globally while learning intercultural competence, design thinking, social innovation, and entrepreneurship. In July 2024, the fourth INCiTE Summer School was hosted at Duy Tan University in Da Nang, Vietnam, with 25 students solving global challenges on location. The curriculum includes entrepreneurship, intercultural communication, and design and systems thinking, co-taught by faculty from the University of Amsterdam, the University of Sydney, Nanyang Technological University, Duy Tan University, and the University of Edinburgh. Funding for the 25 Edinburgh students, all from widening participation backgrounds, is provided by the Development Trust.

NICE offers an online international experience to learn about entrepreneurship and intercultural competence with students from Europe and South Africa. The 2023/2024 programme launched on 4 March with over 160 students from seven universities, including the University of Edinburgh. Participants are working in multicultural teams on global challenges through NICE online modules. The 2024 summer school was held at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, from 30 June to 5 July. This week-long, in-person programme focuses on solutions to international student integration in the Polish context. The Study and Work Away Service (SWAY) used Development Trust funding to support 15 Edinburgh students, including four from widening participation backgrounds. We also continue to work closely with the Council for At-Risk Academics (CARA) and have recently welcomed four new fellows from Palestine, Syria, and Sudan as part of our Fellowship Programme. The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program continues to accept students from across Africa as it enters its second phase, connecting scholars with climate leadership opportunities, networks and support systems to enable them to make the most of the opportunities available, and to give back to their communities.