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Applications for Summer Innovation Bootcamps 2026
are now open!

Sign up by 31st December 2025 and get our Early Bird Rate

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Cohorts


2025 Applications

999

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Week

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About  the Bootcamp

LSE Generate Summer Innovation Bootcamps 2026 are for 15-19 year-olds who want to turn innovative ideas into impact, develop crucial entrepreneurial skills and build networks that will shape their futures.

Through an inspiring and action-packed week of innovation, creativity and collaboration, you will gain new knowledge and tools to bring your ideas to life and build impactful solutions alongside like-minded change makers. You will also learn about business and social entrepreneurship from LSE’s business experts, industry leaders and award-winning founders and entrepreneurs.

Bootcamps run

6-10 July

13-17 July

20-24 July and

27-31 July

Tuition fees

EARLY BIRD RATE: £1125 until 31st December 2025.

SECOND TIER: £1250 from 1st January 2026.

We offer means-tested scholarships for families experiencing financial hardship. Applications for scholarships are open until 31st December 2026. For more information, please complete this form and email Cathy Walker at c.walker2@lse.ac.uk

Spaces are limited and admission is subject to availability. 

Success Story 2025

Our hugely successful Summer Innovation Bootcamps 2025 pilot for 15-18 year-olds received 1000+ sign up from young people around the world from Indonesia to Brazil to Canada and from all four corners of the UK. Four cohorts of young entrepreneurs, mentored by LSE alumni, spent time on campus at LSE Generate throughout July turning innovative ideas into impact, developing crucial entrepreneurial skills and building networks that will shape their futures. Scroll down to see our glowing testimonials around the ‘amazing mentors’ and ‘inspirational entrepreneurs’, as well the ‘creative and collaborative teams’ our 2025 graduates built. One of the winnings teams, Rooted, has already launched a social enterprise focused on sustainable fashion

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Scroll down to hear more from the participants and their parents

​"Our facilitator Andy was absolutely amazing. He made my experience here so enjoyable with the intellectual and engaging conversations we had. He is an amazing mentor who has taught me so much that I will remember and apply to real life scenarios."

London, Student(17 years)

"Thank you for being a great inspiration to my son - he loved the week and found the guidance really valuable"

Parent

​"Our facilitator Andy was absolutely amazing. He made my experience here so enjoyable with the intellectual and engaging conversations we had. He is an amazing mentor who has taught me so much that I will remember and apply to real life scenarios."

London, Student (17 years)

Frequently asked questions

LSE Generate

Schools Programme

The GenDen, Clare Market, London WC2A 2AB, United Kingdom

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Want to get involved?

Cathy Walker

C.Walker2@lse.ac.uk

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