The Enterprise Gym

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**The Enterprise Gym**
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Founded	September 2005
Home Page	Homepage
Management Team, 2006/2007
Enterprise Facilitator	Ken Edward
Senior Intern	Alexander McCooke
Intern	Monique Esingle
Web Administrator	Craig Alexander
Press Manager	Deeshun Forbes
Creative Designer	Lyndon Veale
College Ambassadors	Mike Yule, Wayne Wang, Konrad Witek, Shao Li, Aadi Panwar

The Enterprise Gym (or E-Gym) is a world-renowned enterprise programme, running at the University of Dundee. It brings students and successful business-people together throughout the academic year. The entrepreneurs share their personal successes with those in the programme and train them in how to succeed in business, helping them create and run innovative, lucrative business and social enterprise ventures.

1 Status and membership
2 Events
3 Notable Alumni
4 Projects
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Status and membership

The E-Gym is now in its second year and currently has student members from Universities across Scotland and the UK, with total student membership standing at 726.

[edit] Events

The E-Gym runs a series of events which target different sectors of the student population.

Supercoaches - These events happen a few times a year on the University of Dundee main campus, in the Baxter Conference Suite. They involve some of the UK's most successful entrepreneurs and inspirational speakers and usually take the format of a half an hour speech followed by fifteen minutes of questions from the audience and then a networking buffet. Former Supercoaches have included Melfort Campbell OBE(Chief Executive of the Imes Group & Chairman of CBI Scotland), Sharon Bamford (CEO of the Scottish Institute for Enterprise), John Milligan(founder of Atlantic Power & Gas), Dr Jim Adamson CBE, John H Beaton MBE and Nick Baxter(founder of Cornerstone Community Care.

Training Workouts - Almost every Thursday of Term Time. Held in the University Tower Building. These are two hour sessions of business training in a specific area with a skilled expert. They run in full each semester. Over the semester a participant will gain a complete course in business from start to finish, with every area expert-taught.

Half Times - These are informal speakers events once a week in a local bar. An inspirational and interesting speaker from the business community will speak on a specific subject for around ten to twenty minutes and the students get to ask questions and participate in the follow up discussion. These events focus on networking with food and drink being laid on after every event.

[edit] Notable Alumni

David Tonery - Founder and owner of Oxy-Gen Combustion Ltd

[edit] Projects

The Enterprise Gym creates and supports student-run projects in different academic disciplines as a way of promoting enterprise amongst the full spectrum of university students.

Current Projects:

Tytler Project - This project is based on reassessing the history of Scottish Surgeon, Encyclopaedia Britannica Editor and Balloonist, James Tytler.

Law Project - This project brings together law students seeking pro-bono experience and student businesses seeking legal advice.