Do you want to enhance your skills and competences in entrepreneurship and sustainability through the development of an innovative, impact-driven business concept? Do you want to get knowledge how to make positive change in today's world?  Do you want to explore interdisciplinary and international project collaboration? Then you should definitely apply for this seminar! You will work in diverse teams from different faculties of HM (applied sciences and mechatronics, design), as well as with international students from Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny in Poland, King's college in Nepal and Durban University of Technology in South Africa.

You picture the basics of Entrepreneurship, Design Thinking and Sustainability. You apply this knowledge to a given, real challenge around the topic of Sustainability in Food & Wellbeing.

After having built your teams, you do some research and become experts in your chosen challenge. Then, you will create many, many ideas of which you will pick the most promising ones to develop sustainable business models. You prototype and test your business models. You practice how to present your business ideas in an investor pitch format. Finally, you present your ideas during a pitch event in order to win some seed financing for your teams and be able to continue working on your business ideas.

We are going to conduct this course in a flipped classroom manner. You will get access to a SPOC (small private online course) with all the material - theory and method introductions, templates a.s.o. It is expected that you are preparing yourself for the upcoming lectures at your own pace. We use the lecture time exclusively for questions, coaching and for inspirational talks by entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

Due to our international partner universities, this course takes place online via zoom. A stable internet connection at all times is a prerequisite.