Placement year demand has grown faster than placement supply, and employers now screen with AI before a human reads a single application. We work with universities two ways: a free route for the students who will compete and win, and a managed programme that reaches everybody else.
More courses require or encourage a placement, more students want one, and the pool of good employer placements has not grown at the same rate. Some of your students will not get one however hard they try.
Students spend countless hours on applications that are filtered by automated screening before a human sees them. Effort no longer correlates with outcome, which is demoralising and hard for your team to answer.
Relocating for a placement year is expensive. The students who most need the employability boost are often the ones least able to afford to move for it.
Most universities use both. The free route serves your strongest applicants at no cost to anybody. The managed programme is how you provide experience at cohort scale.
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Both routes place students into vetted European startups. The difference is who they reach and what you can promise. |
OPTION A
Open accessPromote our platform to your students. They apply directly to live in person roles across the UK, Europe and beyond. |
OPTION B
Managed programmeWork experience built into your curriculum as a module, or as structured short term experience, delivered by us. |
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| Cost to the university | Free | Per student or per cohort |
| Cost to the student | Free | Free. Covered by the university |
| Who it reaches | Your strongest applicants only | Every student on the module |
| Placement certainty | Competitive. Hosts decide, and we cannot confirm a place | Capacity committed per cohort, agreed before the module opens |
| Format | In person, UK, Europe and abroad | Remote, or in person where the budget allows |
| Duration | 3 to 12 months, full time | Set by your module. Typically a set number of hours per week across a term |
| Credit bearing | Not designed for it | Yes. Built to fit your module and assessment |
| Widening participation | Limited. Relocation cost is a real barrier | Strong. Remote delivery removes cost and mobility barriers |
| Your team's involvement | Promote it. Nothing else | Design the module with us. We deliver it |
| Reporting | None | Cohort level reporting for your team and for access and participation returns |
| Best for | The top tier of talent who will compete and win | Cohort wide provision, and the students the free route will never reach |
| Promote the platform to students → | Discuss a managed programme → |
Promote our platform to your students. They apply directly to live in person roles across Europe.
Rather than sending students out to compete for a shrinking pool of placements, you build the experience into the curriculum and we deliver it. A set number of hours per week, across a term, inside a real startup.
Hours per week, term dates, learning outcomes, assessment and credit. We build the placement to fit your academic structure, not the other way round.
Startup hosts scoped against the module brief, with supervision capacity confirmed before any student is matched.
Not a competition. Capacity is agreed with you before the module opens, so no student on the module is left without a placement.
Onboarding for student and host, check ins throughout, escalation handling, and a named contact for your team.
Completion records, supervisor feedback and cohort level reporting you can use for module assessment and for access and participation reporting.
Students participate from home. Rent, travel and living costs stop deciding who gets international experience.
Caring responsibilities, part time work and health needs do not rule a student out of a remote placement the way they rule out relocating.
The host is a startup in another country. The student gets cross border working experience without needing a visa or a plane ticket.