Powering your Organisation
Power your business with student partnerships
Join our university student engagement programs that connect students from >130 Universities in the UK, Australia, Canada and globally with businesses and organisations. Selected students form part of short projects that help companies with value add research projects at no financial cost, with a couple of hours of time.
Why Participate?
- Save time and money on market research
- Keep up to date with new trends in your industry
- Uncover insights to help with future decisions
- Get innovative solutions for your business challenges
- Mentor an astute multidisciplinary student team
How it works
- Choose a “Project Type” from our list.
- Submit a project brief which takes 5-10 mins to complete.
- Practera assigns a team of students to undertake your project.
- You review students’ work and provide online feedback. This takes approximately 60min/week over 2-3 weeks.
- You receive a market research report with recommendations to inform your business needs.
Higher education partners
Countries with industry partners
Submit a project here
You can select from the following project types depending on your current priorities. You may also submit multiple project briefs.
International Business
For businesses seeking to expand into new markets either nationally or internationally. Students will analyse the market, identify barriers to entry, and recommend available resources and support to enter the region.
Sustainable impact
For businesses seeking new ideas to manage the social and environmental effects of their operations. Students research practical options to enhance your organisation’s social or environmental impact.
Growth Strategy
For businesses looking for growth opportunities and outside of the box ideas. Students will analyse your market and identify gaps in which you can capitalise on.
Digital Marketing Strategy
For businesses seeking to adopt or maximise their existing social media platforms and social marketing channels. Students will analyse and develop a social media strategy.
Funding sources
Ideal for non-profits, startups and SMEs that want to explore available funding options. Students analyse and recommend potential funding pathways for businesses.
STEM Technology & Innovation Trends Project
For STEM organisations (i.e. within technology, science, engineering sectors) seeking to receive research-informed recommendations and insights on new technologies and innovation trends from STEM students on a specific business area, which will offer growth or diversification for your organisation.
Customer & Market Insights
For businesses looking to gain a deeper understanding of their customer base. This project can rely on a mix of client data and publicly available data to build customer profiles using clustering or segmentation models.
Public Policy Project
For businesses, NGOs or policy institutes
looking to uncover insights on a current policy-related challenge,whether creating, implementing, analysing or lobbying for policy.
Talent and Culture Project
For startups, businesses or NGOs looking to uncover insights on a current HR-related challenge. Students will complete secondary research on recruitment, training & development, or workplace culture, reviewing best practice and the HR-practices of comparable organisations.
Innovation Trends – Artificial Intelligence Project
For organisations seeking to receive research-informed recommendations and insights from a student consultant team on how your business, product or value chain can utilise Artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the value you deliver to end-users.
STEM Technology & Innovation Feasibility Project
For STEM organisations (i.e. within technology, science, engineering sectors) seeking to receive research-informed recommendations and insights from STEM students on the technological feasibility of a specific R&D / innovation concept / new product / new technology.
Supply Chain
For organisations seeking to improve supply chain operations through identifying opportunities for optimisation. Using publicly available data, students will provide recommendations on how to enhance supply chain operations leading to potential cost savings, improved vendor relationships, sustainability practices, and competitiveness.
Tourism and Event Management
For Clients seeking a comprehensive understanding of current tourism and event management best practices and emerging trends. Student teams will undertake in-depth secondary research and deliver actionable insights to help equip organisations with the tools and knowledge necessary to elevate their capabilities and deliver exceptional experiences for their stakeholders.
FAQs
You can let us know your preferences and we will do our best to make it happen, but we cannot guarantee it.
Each students commits to 20 hours of work over the two week period.
They also commit to act as consultants and cater to the needs and schedules of their client.
Collectively your team will deliver 120+ hours to the project.
No, the students work remotely and are not located at your offices.
- Outline clear project requirements so that your report provides value
- Set project outcomes that are achievable within a two week period
- Ask for help if needed. If you’re not sure about what project type to choose, or how to define a scope, the Practera team are available at projects@practera.com
No. This is a free student project undertaken with the best of intentions, with nominated students from University partners. We have robust systems, processes, content in place to support all participants and enhance outcome quality. However, inevitably some student teams will be stronger or more committed than others, or better aligned to the client and their scope. On average across many projects outcomes are great, however there will be some failures. For this reason we do advise submitting value add, not mission critical projects.
Testimonials
What a fantastic opportunity! We worked with the student group on an innovative new to market piece of work. At first, they were nervous, knowing very little about their topic, but they recognised the opportunity and challenge and set off on their research. Their growth throughout the short program was really quite amazing to be part of and as an organisation, we gained valuable insights as a result of the work they produced for us. Thank you for the experience of Practera.
Michelle O’Connor, Senior Consultant- Digital at NAB
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