Mission: University Start Ups (USUP) is a consortium of university interests and volunteers around the world. Its underlying mission is to develop real world “open source” intellectual property using project based curricula that prepares students all over the world for entry into their chosen career path and which contributes to the Gross Domestic Product of the countries from which the participating universities in the project are doing the work. Participation in these projects is open to anyone outside of the university structure. Volunteers can accumulate USUP credits that may be applied to certain degree programs at a later date to participating universities if that volunteer were to be accepted by those schools.