Explore enterprise

Explore the business and economic viability of your idea while delivering positive social and environmental impact.

Join RSA Spark for the final interactive online learning workshop in its series of five.

Are you a higher education student or educator? Join RSA Spark for the last free interactive online learning workshops in its series of five.

What this workshop offers

This workshop is for those who’ve prototyped and tested an idea and now want to explore how to develop it further. In this workshop, you’ll explore is meant by a ‘regenerative’ enterprise or business. You’ll also start to think about:

• Your readiness, interest and capacity to take the next step into entrepreneurship, reflecting on your strengths and motivations (explored in workshop one).
• The viability of your idea as a regenerative enterprise, supported by tools and frameworks, and a plan for sustaining your idea – whether as a business or not.

The workshop will grow important capabilities to support you to move forward on your journey: critical thinking, courage, and composure:

• Critical thinking is about regularly questioning how our feelings, other people, and the wider world influence our thinking.
• Courage is about being open, sharing our true selves, and standing up for what’s right. It’s about making tough decisions to improve life for everyone.
• Composure is about maintaining calm and authenticity in the face of challenges. It helps you stay focused, balanced, and true to your values on your journey.

Growing these capabilities will support you to:

• Look at lots of different information and ideas before deciding what to think or do.
• Try new things, even when it’s hard.
• Show confidence in what you are good at and what you can do.

This workshop will support you in interrogating how you can sustain your idea and your role in driving impact.

What is RSA Spark?

RSA Spark marks the beginning of a new chapter, built on the foundations of 100 years of the Student Design Awards to achieve greater impact. RSA Spark supports students aged 18 and above from around the globe to develop ideas in response to real-world briefs – social, economic and environmental innovation questions.

RSA Spark is free to enter and open to currently enrolled and recently graduated students from all disciplines. To take part, students – working individually or in a team – should identify a creative opportunity that fits within the wider theme of one of the available briefs, come up with and test a possible solution, and then submit their idea to RSA Spark. The link to submit will be accessible from 20 May 2025 via the RSA Spark webpage.

Why join these RSA Spark workshops?

In responding to an RSA Spark Brief, you have an opportunity to grow capabilities for life, 10 future-proof skills that are important when innovating in ways that positively impact people, places and planet. You can find out more about these capabilities here.

RSA Spark proposes a five-stage creative process to guide you through responding to your chosen brief and focus on these capabilities. To support you, we’ve provided a series of online learning workshops that correspond with these stages.

You are invited to join the workshop to strengthen your skills and your idea submission. The workshops will also be available for playback.

RSA Spark digital badges are awarded to everyone who joins a learning workshop (Explorer Badge) and submits their idea (Practitioner and Collaborator Badges). Badges can be used on CVs and education applications to validate your learning.

Taking part in online events

For our interactive online events, the RSA uses the platform Zoom. It may be necessary to follow a short set-up process if you don’t have Zoom enabled. To understand how Zoom uses your data, please read their privacy policy in advance.

Zoom call joining details will be sent out via email in advance of the event.

At the RSA, we strive to create inclusive and supportive environment for all participants. We recognise that individuals may require different forms of support to fully participate in our events and activities. Therefore, we welcome and encourage participants to reach out for any support they feel is necessary. We ask that you fill out the accessibility requirements box in your Eventbrite booking form in advance of attending one of our events. We aim to ensure that everyone feels comfortable and valued, and we are committed to accommodating diverse needs to foster an inclusive community.

Consent

We will record our online workshops for learning purposes, publicity and/or public viewing. By attending this event, you accept that you may appear in RSA videos or images as an attendee of this event.

By registering for this event you consent to receiving communications about this event, both before and after, and you agree to the sharing of your name, organisation and title with the RSA and/or partner organisation(s) hosting this event. Attendees also agree to the sharing of their name and organisation with other delegates at the event so that they might contact you. If you do not wish this information to be shared, please let us know by emailing: rsaspark@rsa.org.uk.

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Please be aware that registrations will close two hours before the event is due to start.