Bath Spa Graduate wins £1,000 prize at Universities South West Enterprise Awards
1st December 2010
Rosanna Campbell, a 2010 Music and Literature graduate, managed to win a special cash prize following delivering a successful presentation to a panel of judges in a South West inter-university competitive awards event held in Plymouth on Tuesday the 16th of November 2010.
This follows on from Rosanna's success in winning the top prize for Best Business Enterprise at Bath Spa University's 2010 Business Plan Competition earlier this year with her business Musica. Musica offers instrumental music lessons and workshops for health and emotional well-being to older adults in hospitals and retirement homes in South West England.
As part of the Knowledge Escalator South West programme, a region-wide inter-university business plan competition was held to showcase innovation and enterprise activity within the HEIs, building on experience of the 'Winner of Winners' and subsequent Knowledge West Enterprise Awards competitions that ran in the northern part of the region in earlier years.
The Universities SW Enterprise Awards set out to recognise and reward the breadth of the role of the Higher Education Institutes in terms of encouraging knowledge exchange and business collaboration, and engendering a culture of enterprise in its students, staff and alumni. The awards offer significant cash prizes and regional exposure for the winning businesses.
Rosanna was awarded the £1,000 'Ivita' award to help her progress with the Musica business. As sponsors of the prize Dr Sri Sharma and Michael Cornish were both impressed with Musica, an enterprise originating from Rosanna's research, which she has the belief and commitment to translate into action in order to benefit others.
"We wish Rosanna every success and hope Musica continues to study the benefits obtained to their clients as part of their organisational aims" they said. "We believe that success in business alongside good research has the potential to influcence wider understanding and change the treatment of diseases affection cognition and motor skills."
Further information about the awards event can be found at www.universitiessouthwest.ac.uk.
Nick Buckland and David Coslett presenting the award to Rosanna Campbell
For Reference
The Universities SW Enterprise Awards are funded by by the Knowledge Escalator Project, which is part financed by the European Union’s ERDF Competitiveness and Employment Programme 2007-13 securing £1,833,000 of ERDF investment through the South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA).
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