New facilities to nurture student entrepreneurship

We're really proud of the entrepreneurial spirit that shines so brightly across our student community. So much so that we will be opening our first dedicated space to nurture and harness this. First of its kind space The Hazan Venture Lab will provide a specialised home for our student enterprise work, to help foster and develop a community of student and graduate entrepreneurs. Managed by our Careers and Enterprise team, the Lab will provide business advice sessions, workshops, networking events and start-up pitching events, as well as being available for student-led groups to use. It is named after Jonathan Hazan, a Durham University graduate and successful businessman, who generously gifted £500, 000 to support the development of the Venture Lab. Supporting our students The Hazan Venture Lab is housed within the brand new, state of the art Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science building, but is available to all students. From September 2021 Careers and Enterprise will also use the Hazan Venture Lab to deliver its new Durham Venture School programme, a flagship start-up creator programme which will be the first of its kind in the Higher Education sector.