WeVenture: Ideas and Opportunities
Supporting women researchers to identify and shape their concepts into impactful projects
What is it?
WeVenture: Ideas and Opportunities is a six-week masterclass series, equipping women researchers to identify and shape impactful projects.
The funded programme will be delivered via weekly online masterclasses, two and a half hours in duration.
Across five interactive masterclasses, you’ll strengthen key competences - spotting opportunities, sparking creativity, shaping a clear vision, valuing ideas, and applying ethical, sustainable thinking. Designed to inspire action, this series helps you turn concepts into opportunities with purpose and lasting impact.
Ideas and Opportunities is part of the wider WeVenture: Capability Building series, which also includes Resources and Into Action. Places are offered on a first-come, first-served basis and participants can complete the series in any order.
WeVenture is delivered through the Alinea Framework
Who is it for?
This programme is open to:
- Any woman in research
- Postgraduate Researcher: Master’s Doctoral Researcher, Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Fellow, Research Associate, Research Scientist, Senior Researcher, Principal Investigator, Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor, Research Director, Head of Research levels
- From any sector or discipline
- Affiliated with a regional college, research center, or university
- Located on the island of Ireland
Applicants are expected to commit to full participation in programme activities over the duration of the programme.
Applicants may apply to one WeVenture programme at a time and should choose the option that best reflects their current needs and goals.
Places are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. InterTradeIreland reserves the right to apply additional assessment criteria to the WeVenture Programme. Management decisions are final in these matters.
Applicants involved in activities associated with gambling, significant health risks, immoral activity, or any activity that could negatively impact the reputation of InterTradeIreland will not be supported.
Why choose WeVenture: Ideas and Opportunities?
What can you expect to achieve:
- Develop the ability to use imagination and creative thinking to identify opportunities for creating value in diverse contexts.
- Strengthen skills in analysing social, cultural, and economic landscapes to uncover meaningful opportunities.
- Enhance your capacity to recognise real-world needs and challenges that can be addressed through innovative ideas.
- Build confidence in connecting ideas, people, and resources to generate new opportunities and solutions.
- Gain practical experience in spotting and seizing opportunities that lead to impactful, value-driven outcomes.
Key information
How to Apply
All places for the Spring 2026 cohort have now been filled.
A waitlist is currently in operation and places for the next series commencing in September will be offered to those on the waitlist on a first‑come, first‑served basis.
Please complete the waitlist form below and our delivery partner will be in touch regarding next steps.
If you have any queries about the programme, please complete the enquiry form and a member of our team will contact you.