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Opportunities
Programmes.
We have a range of different programmes tailored to young people at different points in their career, including Sixth Form, university, and early professionals.
Freedom Week
One-week summer school for university students
A joint IEA and Adam Smith Institute summer school in Cambridge. Students explore classical liberalism through daily lectures, seminars, and social events covering free markets, monetary policy, free speech, and more.
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Camp Vinson
Residential programme aimed at university students
A joint IEA and Vinson Centre summer school at the University of Buckingham combining lectures, seminars, and debates on classical liberal ideas led by leading academics.
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Beloff Conference
Three-day residential programme
A highly selective residential for advanced students in economics or politics. A small cohort engages in intensive, high-level discussion on a substantial annual theme, led by classical-liberal scholars.
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Public Policy Bootcamp
Three-day programme for early-career professionals
The Public Policy Bootcamp is an annual, three-day residential programme that brings together early-career professionals working in public policy for an intensive, practical deep-dive into contemporary policy challenges.
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Future Thought Leaders' Programme
Undergraduate and Sixth Form programmes
Two separate programmes — for sixth formers and undergraduates — combining lectures, debates, career guidance, and hands-on projects to deepen understanding of economics and free-market ideas beyond the standard curriculum.
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Student Resources.
If you’re looking for someone to speak at your university or society, or you’d like books and magazines to give away at a Freshers’ Fair, we can help.
We regularly send our staff and research fellows to speak at universities, as well as providing students with IEA books, research publications, and our Economic Affairs Journal.
To see a current list of IEA speakers and their topics, please click here.
To find out more, please email education@iea.org.uk
Student Opportunity Fund.
If you need financial support to participate in an internship at the IEA, please click here for more information about our Student Opportunity Fund.
Our Student Opportunity Fund is intended solely for those facing genuine economic hardship. To be eligible for a bursary you or a parent/guardian must meet one of the criteria and provide one piece of evidence to support your application.
If you have any questions regarding the Student Opportunity Fund, please email education@iea.org.uk
IEA Competitions.
The Budget Challenge
Win £1,000 for you and your school!
Your chance to enter a team for a national competition that will help them to learn more about economics, develop their writing, research, and analytical skills, and give them a better understanding of the policy issues and challenges facing national decision makers.
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Monetary Policy Essay Competition
What causes high inflation, and is the Bank of England responsible for the current inflation episode? If so, how would you make it more accountable?
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Economics 101 has landed! The first in a two-part series, providing 33 films in total, will cover everything from basic economic theory to important historical case studies; guaranteeing viewers will receive a comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals of economics.
Essay Competition Results, 2026-7.
Budget Challenge
Winner: Exeter School (Jacob Hardy, Toby Kenefick)
Runners-up: London Academy of Excellence (Ismael Fuentes, Abdul Oyewo), Bromsgrove School (Matthe Hill, Adrian Keseljevic, Vicente Costantini Conte)
Monetary Policy Essay Prize (Undergraduate)
Winner: TBC
Runners-up: TBC
Monetary Policy Essay Prize (Sixth-Form)
Winner: TBC
Runners-up: TBC