EuroTeQ Collider: Entrepreneurship & Innovation

During this innovation-learning journey to enhance your understanding of the challenges we face, you will co-create solutions towards a sustainable futures.  
   
This course is part of the Collider,the signature challenge-based co-creation activity of the EuroTeQ Engineering University, a corporation between leading universities of science and technology, spread across Europe, situated in innovation eco-systems and with great collaboration experience. The Collider is based on a process of selecting and working with multi-stakeholder driven ideas and challenges within a selected theme. More information about the specific challenges will be published online via: https://www.tue.nl/en/our-university/about-the-university/university-alliances-networks/engineer-the-future-with-us

During this course you will form and participate in interdisciplinary – international teams consisting of students from diverse  study levels i.e. Bachelor, Master and Doctoral and in collaboration with lifelong learners. Together you will work on an open-ended challenge from ideation to prototyping, including iterative validation all though out the project. During this learning process, you will develop a broad set of skills aiming at improving your capabilities to: a) offer an innovative and entrepreneurial solution that is not only technically, but also socially impactful, financially sustainable and legally doable; b address uncertainty and acting while being out of your comfort zone.

At the end of the course all participants will be invited to pitch their results in a European context and have a chance to be selected to join the EuroTeQaThon in June, and/or  to join a week-long Entrepreneurial Bootcamp training. The ultimate goal of these events is to enhance your learning experience and journey, and collectively develop solutions and actionable opportunities to co-create sustainable futures.

In this course students learn how to use an entrepreneurial mindset in an actionable process. During the course, students will:

• develop an entrepreneurial growth mindset and apply design thinking to navigate complexity with adaptability, resilience, and a willingness to learn from failure;
• strengthen self-directed learning by taking ownership, identifying skill gaps, seeking knowledge, applying feedback, and using reflection, to build innovation competences;
• experience entrepreneurship in action by engaging in the full process - from identifying real-world challenges to designing, prototyping, and validating solutions - while aligning personal values, stakeholder needs, and project viability.

Examination consists of a team assessment and an individual component. Team deliverables: report + pitch (70% of final mark); Individual deliverable: Individual reflection on learning objectives (30% of final mark). To pass this course students are required to score on average 5.5 or higher for the report and pitch, and reflection not less than 5 Report, pitch, team reflection

A wide variety of interactive hybrid sessions including teamwork, pitching, stakeholder collaboration, expert-sessions and workshops