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5 February 2019
Expand your business overseas with the Graduate to Export programme
If you want to expand your business overseas, the Invest NI Graduate to Export programme can provide the support to achieve this growth.
The Graduate to Export programme aims to help companies with their ambitious growth plans by providing financial support to employ a graduate for 18 months to take forward a market research project that targets a specific market outside Northern Ireland.
If your application is successful, you will receive salary support to employ the graduate of 50% (up to a maximum of £18,000 for the eighteen month programme) and export skills training and mentorship for the graduate provided by Ulster University and the Institute of Export.
Graduates spend the first six months of the programme in Northern Ireland getting to know your business and starting the training programme. The following 12 months are spent in the export market undertaking the market research project with full support from your company, along with academic and company mentors.
At the end of the 18 month programme period your company will have:
The programme is open to Invest NI customers who:
Whilst this programme is targeted at SMEs, large companies may also apply.
Find out more and apply for the Graduate to Export programme.