Partners
Good collaboration makes value and responsibility explicit.
CIE welcomes considered proposals from universities, companies, professional organisations, foundations and the investment ecosystem. Only confirmed relationships will be presented as partnerships.
CIE / PARTNER PATH
How an institution judges fit.
This is a judgement method, not a list of confirmed partners. Third-party names and marks appear after confirmation.
- 01
Is the problem specific
Name a bounded problem, beneficiaries and period. Visibility by itself does not establish a collaboration.
- 02
Does the audience overlap
Ask whether the people you serve overlap with CIE's secondary-school, university or young-founder audiences, and whether supervision matches.
- 03
What the institution itself decides
Credits, admissions, employment, laboratory access and IP policy remain the institution's decisions. CIE does not replace those authorities.
- 04
Outputs are methods and pilots
What can be exchanged is method, feedback and a bounded pilot. A logo wall, promised results or an unconfirmed endorsement is outside the fit test.
- 05
Can the risks be written down
Contact with minors, data, confidentiality, IP, procurement, fees and conflicts must be explicit before activity begins.
- 06
No names before confirmation
A meeting, introduction or verbal expression of support is not a partnership. Names and marks appear after written confirmation.
01 / Partners
Begin with a problem
A proposal should state the problem, intended beneficiaries, available contribution, time frame and definition of success—not simply a request for visibility.
CIE will examine alignment with young people's growth, educational integrity, feasibility and risk.
02 / Partners
Possible forms of collaboration
Universities can connect learning, research and translation. Companies can contribute problem context, specialist feedback and responsible pilots.
Investment and philanthropic communities can support entrepreneurship education, open methods and compliant connections. Professional organisations can add legal, financial, design, engineering or safety capability.
03 / Partners
No logo before confirmation
A meeting, introduction, application or verbal expression of support is not a partnership. Names, logos, quotations and programme titles require written permission.
A partnership page should describe the type, scope and period of the relationship so it cannot be mistaken for blanket endorsement.
04 / Partners
Shared boundaries
Participant data, contact with minors, confidentiality, IP, procurement, fees and conflicts must be resolved before activity begins.
Educational collaboration cannot become covert selling, cheap labour, extraction of unprotected ideas or a route around professional procurement.