{"id":6398,"date":"2025-05-29T09:51:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/?p=6398"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:52:26","slug":"catalyst-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/catalyst-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalyst Partnership: applications now open for Sept 2025 cohort"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1365px;margin-left: calc(-5% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-5% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.375%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.375%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:2.375%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:2.375%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:2.375%;--awb-spacing-left-small:2.375%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Catalyst is a highly regarded, prestigious business support programme. It has benefited over 100 companies who have, between them, created around 260 jobs and raised investment of more than \u00a365 million.\u00a0 Held in person on two days per week for five months, Catalyst offers a fully funded programme of mentoring and workshop learning with high-level one-to-one sessions with world-class business mentors, commercially focussed weekly peer group workshops and a prestigious Southampton Science Park business home throughout the programme.<\/p>\n<p>Health Innovation Wessex provides a parallel stream for health and med-tech businesses, building on the core Catalyst content with additional taught sessions, workshops and mentoring, focussing on product development and market access in the health sector.<\/p>\n<p>Catalyst commences in March and September each year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dates to note for current applications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Applications close 30th\u00a0June 2025<\/li>\n<li>Interview days 16th\u00a0&amp; 23rd\u00a0July 2025<\/li>\n<li>Programme start date 29th September 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Those who may benefit form applying to the programme include:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Industry-based innovators developing a health or med-tech product,<\/li>\n<li>Healthcare staff developing a health or med-tech innovation with commercial potential,<\/li>\n<li>Academic researchers actively working on a spin-out from their research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For further information about the Catalyst health stream contact <a href=\"mailto:peter.rhodes@hiwessex.net\">peter.rhodes@hiwessex.net\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Applications for the programme commencing September 2025 are now open via this <u><a href=\"https:\/\/links.uk.defend.egress.com\/Warning?crId=6835ce02031d30b26888337b&amp;Domain=dorsetccg.nhs.uk&amp;Threat=eNpzrShJLcpLzAEADmkDRA%3D%3D&amp;Lang=en&amp;Base64Url=eNo9y0ESgCAIAMAXIfd-Q0TpWMoAjuPv69RxD5sj1DfEOWdyLtJYQMlq4p5GxX14aeIOPlS7BUYWYAq6lweo9cvoeQRP-hhGXGH1YfC_cgi9hsgmdA%3D%3D&amp;@OriginalLink=www.science-park.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online application form<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>29\/05\/2025<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6403,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions\/6403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}