EuroTeQ Collider: Entrepreneurship & Innovation

During this innovation-learning journey to enhance your understanding of the societal challenges we face, you will co-create solutions towards 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

Bachelors Degree

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