Unconventional superconductors are of high interest due to their rich physics, a topical example being topological edge states associated with p-wave superconductivity. A practical obstacle in studying such systems is the very low critical temperature T_{c} that is required to realize a p-wave superconducting phase in a material. We predict that the T_{c} of an intrinsic p-wave superconductor can be significantly enhanced by coupling to a conventional s-wave or d-wave superconductor with a higher critical temperature via an atomically thin ferromagnetic (F) layer. We show that this T_{c} boost is tunable via the direction of the magnetization in F. Moreover, we show that the enhancement in T_{c} can also be achieved using the Zeeman effect of an external magnetic field. Our findings provide a way to increase T_{c} in p-wave superconductors in a controllable way and make the exotic physics associated with such materials more easily accessible experimentally.
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