InterHEI
The Interdisciplinary HEI Entrepreneurship Fostering Program
Initiative: Youth Entrepreneurship Program
organised by Universidad Loyola
Deadline application for 2023 edition is: April 5th, 2023
Overview
The Youth Entrepreneurship Program is a training program for curious minds to learn about business opportunities in food and health and provide them with the knowledge and tools to validate business ideas in both sectors. The Program will give students of different backgrounds and countries the opportunity to network in a multicultural and international environment.
Join the Program if you are eager to boost your entrepreneurial skills and apply them to your country’s food and health sector and across Europe!
Key features
The program is designed to empower students to get a general knowledge about innovations happening in the food and health sectors and to be able to create new business models and, eventually, build start-ups.
The Program is structured as follows:
Online training: 8 modules designed to give students an overview of food and health trends in terms of innovations, industry challenges, technologies available and methods to ideate, propose, validate and build a business in those sectors.
European Hackathon: 2days online and intensive hackathon created to give the students the opportunity to put into practice the learnings from the training and to propose business ideas to the main industry challenges. Students will work in international and interdisciplinary teams.
Projects mentoring: Specialised mentoring to the most promising projects proposed by students during the training and the hackathon oriented to help the projects become real.
Benefits
Practical and hands-on training taught by practitioners, business owners and founders.
An opportunity to learn and network in a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment.
Flexibility to configure your training itinerary, you can register to the complete program or only for the sessions that interest you the most.
A way to develop profession-related competencies and boost your innovations and entrepreneurial skills.
Free of charge, participants do not pay tuition.
At the end of the program or module, you will be awarded a training certificate.
Beneficiaries
The Program is for you if:
You are curious and want to explore business opportunities in health or food.
You are open and eager to learn in a multicultural environment.
You are willing to apply the tools and the mythology taught in the real world because see yourself in the mid-term starting a business.
The Youth Entrepreneurship Program is open to:
Students enrolled in the current academic year in any of the High Education Institutions in the European Union, Serbia, Ukraine, or Turkey.
Students with at least an English level equivalent to a B2 should be aware that the Program will be run in English.
Priority will be given to students of the High Education Institutions participating in the project, which are: the University of Warsaw (Poland), Lodz University of Technology (Poland), Universidad Loyola (Spain), Marmara University (Turkey), PerrotisCollege (Greece), University of Kyiv (Ukraine), Medical University of Lodz (Poland), the University of Agriculture in Krakow (Poland) and the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra (Slovakia).
Program Delivery
The program is comprised of 8 days of online classes and workshops delivered by leading European experts in food, health and business.
Additionally, there will be a European Hackathon of 2 days where students will put the learnings from the training and propose business ideas to the main industry challenges.
Students will work in international and interdisciplinary teams.
The best projects proposed during the Hackathon will have access to specialized mentorship.
Contact
If you have any questions about the program you can reach us at: yeprogram@uloyola.es