Deep Dive into Entrepreneurship

Do you have a creative mindset, are you able to put ideas into action and can you work in a variety of professional settings? This course teaches entrepreneurial processes by putting theories into action. You will get to work with your own ideas, develop new skills and competencies and work with other students from around the world.  

Content
The goal of our entrepreneurship course is to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the entrepreneurial journey. We achieve this by integrating theories, self-reflection, and hands-on exercises. This approach equips you with the ability to translate these theoretical concepts and insights into real-world applications. Our primary objective is to provide our students with the realisation that entrepreneurship revolves around the core elements of ideas, resource utilisation, and decisive action.

Content
The goal of our entrepreneurship course is to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the entrepreneurial journey. We achieve this by integrating theories, self-reflection, and hands-on exercises. This approach equips you with the ability to translate these theoretical concepts and insights into real-world applications. Our primary objective is to provide our students with the realisation that entrepreneurship revolves around the core elements of ideas, resource utilisation, and decisive action.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

  • Obtain a profound understanding of how to use reflection in areas as innovation, entrepreneurship, establishing and qualifying a business identity
  • Understanding complexity in business, leadership and projects generating value on entrepreneurial premises

Skills

  • Ability to establish, identify and differentiate a business idea on practical as well as immaterial perspectives
  • Ability to integrate the entrepreneurial way of working on personal-, team- and organizational level
  • Ability to use many sources and perspectives for creating value in projects, idea generation etc.

Competences

  • Acquired competencies to generate business ideas, qualify business ideas, reflect on operationalize business ideas
  • Obtain a fundamental knowledge of how entrepreneurship differs from more traditional ways of thinking about business
  • How to handle complexity in relation to business creation or change
  • How to handle personal characteristics related to the student and business partners
Start date: Aug 5, 2024
End date: Aug 23, 2024
Costs: €730

Registration form

Please use your Fontys email address!

““Exiting oportunities for the summer of 2024!””

Tuition fee waivers
Students from Fontys as VIA's partner institutions abroad are eligible for tuition fee waivers for this course, if they can provide documentation for approval of credit transfer.

Language
English - please note that VIA University College requires students attending VIA Summer School to be fluent in English. All summer schools require active participation both orally and in writing. This means students must have an English level of at least B2.

Credits
5 ECTS

Academic level and prerequisites
BA level.
Students must have completed 1 year of study at bachelor level.
Students must be at least 18 years old to apply.

Maximum enrolment
Max. 30 participants. Students are accepted according to a first come, first served basis.

Application deadline
1 April 2024.

Location
VIA University College, Campus Aarhus C, Denmark.

Summer School online info meetings

In January, VIA University College will host two online meetings about VIA's Summer School 2024 programme, where students and counsellors can learn more about the content of the 7 courses and plenty of time for Q&A.