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Empower Your Business: Tap into the Brilliance of University Students to Solve Current Challenges

Limited time, finances, and human resources shouldn’t hold back your business growth. Engage a talented team of students to tackle your pressing business challenges and provide fresh ideas and insights to keep you up to date.


By participating, you’ll receive valuable support and contribute to ambitious students' growth, helping them apply and enhance their skills to real-world projects.


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Join the upcoming program no financial cost.

 

 3-4 hours of your time 

 

Undertake a structured, 2-4 week consulting project with a diverse team of University students in the following areas:

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PUBLIC POLICY

Analyse the policy landscape / comparable regulation

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Data Analysis

Customer and market insights through data analysis

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TECHNOLOGY TRENDS & INNOVATION

Recommendations & insights to support innovation & growth

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Growth Strategy

Research business growth options, initiatives, competitors & markets

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SUSTAINABLE IMPACT

research options & initiatives to enhance social & environmental impact

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FUNDING & FINANCE

Research grants, investors and other funding sources

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DIGITAL MARKETING

Review & enhance social media & digital marketing

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CYBER SECURITY

Analyse potential cybersecurity risks and new tools and training your staff can utilise

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (fAQs)

How does it work?
  • Practera will assign a team of 5-6 students team from the upcoming. program
  • You meet your team, then teams work remotely and independently
  • Practera coordinates the program and provides an app that allows you to stay on top of what’s happening and review your team’s work
What are the results?
  • Student teams provide a consulting report addressing your project brief

  • Businesses get fresh perspectives and new insights from diverse Gen-Z talents

  • Students build skills, experience, and connections for a successful career

What to expect from a 2-3 week project?
  • 250 – 300 hours of dedicated student work
  • Remote team that works independently
  • Upfront meeting + 1 hour a week of your time is required to review student work and provide feedback
Where do students come from?
  • We work with a wide range of Universities
  • Students are of varying levels of study, cultural, and disciplinary backgrounds
  • Students have opted into the experience

RECENT INDUSTRY CLIENTS

Hear from Industry Participants

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Toai Chowdhury, Marketing Manager, Infosys

‘We are willing to recommend the program as 10/10. We really liked how structured it was and how the students, despite their diverse backgrounds, worked together like mature professionals to deliver solid outcomes in just 2 weeks. Lastly, the ease of access of the Practera platform and the well-planned program really helps us with our work.’

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Kate Barnard, Chief Executive Officer, Enjoy the air

“Surrounding yourself with great people. This summer we have been working with Practera and have set some specific company relevant questions to cohort of students. What a fabulous opportunity for all involved and highly recommended this engagement for startups and students!"

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Angie Knaggs, Senior Educational Designer in the UQ Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

“Practera was the right platform for this flagship program, which is a highly applied, interdisciplinary and team based unit with strong industry engagement, feedback loops and project based collaboration.”

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Zane D’Mello, CEO at ATLAS

“The level of autonomy that the students display in general is very good. As long as you are clear about the parameters of your project they all add additional knowledge that can be acted on by your organisation.”