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Entrepreneurial Education is the name of the first phase in the 3 phase Start For Future (SFF) programme.
Between April and June 2022, student teams with great ideas in Urban Mobility, Manufacturing & Health, Food can use the project work they work on within their courses to team up with other international teams in an international setting, and get entrepreneurial with their idea! Teams will create a business model canvas and pitch their idea to Industry Experts to win rewards and prepare for Startup creation!
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Start for Future ?
Start For Future is an alliance for Open Entrepreneurship and CO-Creation, supported by 16 European Universities, their associated partners and the European Institute for Innovation & Technology (EIT).
Student from the below International Universities & Incubators will be matched with each other during the Entrepreneurial Education programme to turn their startup idea into reality!
- Germany, Munich: HM University of Applied Sciences
- Austria, Vienna: FH Campus Wien
- Belgium, Ghent: Ghent University
- Greece, Athens: Athens University of Economics and Business
- Scotland, Edinburgh: Napier University
- Germany, Esslingen: Grundess!University of Applied Sciences
- Italy, Pisa: University of Pisa
- Bulgaria, Sofia: The Edge Ltd.
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo: International Burch University
- Portugal, Aveiro: University of Aveiro
- Czech Republic, Prague: Czech Technical University
- Spain, Barcelona: Technocampus
- Croatia, Osijek: University of Osijek
- Bulgaria, Varna: University of Economics Varna
- Ireland, Dundalk: Dundalk Insitute of Technology
- Denmark, Odense: Foundation for Entrepreneurship

The SFF Entrepreneurial Education programme empowers student entrepreneurship by challenging students to:
- think with an entrepreneurial mindset
- develop innovative solutions to current innovation challenges of EIT Urban Mobility, Manufacturing, Health, Food & Raw Materials
- interface and work together with a tandem team through international exchange
- pitch to international EIT industry experts
- make their idea ready for startup creation!
The following Ghent University courses & professors participate in the Start For Future Entrepreneurial Education track this semester:
- Design of Urban Services– Sidharta Gautama (Engineering & Architecture)
- Dare to Start – Jolien Coenraets (Elective Course)
- Entrepreneurship – Johan Verrue (Economics & Business Administration)
- Dare to Venture – Johan Verrue (Elective Course)
- Co-Creation – Jan Detand (Engineering & Architecture)
Students that follow one of these courses and work on a challenge within Urban Mobility, Manufacturing, Health, Food or Raw Materials can apply for the Start For Future programme!
Students that join Start For Future enjoy a number of benefits:
- connect with a huge network of international teams, incubators & startups
- pitch your idea to Industry Experts and get valuable feedback
- receive an EIT Certificate for participation
- pitch in the grand final and win rewards
- kickstart your idea and make it ready for incubation & startup creation in the next semester
If you want to join Start For Future, pick a challenge that fits within a challenge area in Urban Mobility, Manufacturing, Health or Food.
You can check the below challenge areas for inspiration, or formulate your own challenge based on personal experience:
Looking for more concrete examples? Detailed challenges of some of our partners are linked below.
You can pick one of them, or just use them as inspiration:
Do you want to join with your team but you have some questions? Are you looking for more information? Reach out to Andreas Wauters via email or LinkedIn to request more info or plan a meeting.
Entrepreneurial Education schedule
Between 6th of April and 8th of June 2021, EUAcceL teams can participate in 5 International sessions, for a total of 7,5h International exchange.
The Sessions will be online videoconferences, and follow the below schedule. Your team can choose to be in the early or the late session for the entire track. Choose wisely, because switching mid track is not supported.
6 April: Start For Future Kickoff & EIT input
12:00-13:30 CEST or 16:00-17:30 CEST
20 April: tandem team peer review
12:00-14:00 CEST or 16:00-18:00 CEST
04 May: Industry experts & tandem team sparring
12:00-13:00 CEST or 16:00-17:00 CEST
18 May: business model & pitch preparation
12:00-13:00 CEST or 16:00-17:00 CEST
23 May: Pitch @ Local Ghent Final
16:00-18:00 CEST
08 June : Pitch @ Grand Final (optional)
15:30-17:30 CEST
Project complete: what's next?
Pitching your idea at the Start For Future Grand Final in June is not necessarily the end!
Motivated teams with a strong, viable project can choose to take their idea further over the summer break in our Pre-incubation SPRINT (Phase 2) and next year in our International Open Incubator program (Phase 4).
Our very own: Expedition DO! will be one of the available incubator tracks in Phase 3.
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Just click the button and complete the Registration form before 18 March 2022 to apply!