What if you could turn your idea into a business in four months? Apply to Journeys Incubator by 10 August!
What if you could turn your idea into a business in four months?
The University’s new Journeys incubator programme can help you do just that! The new interdisciplinary entrepreneurship programme offers four months of intensive entrepreneurship coaching, mentoring, and support. By taking part in it, you’ll be working hands-on on your project: Journeys is focused on validating ideas with real users, developing and testing real solutions, and getting your team’s skillset ready for the next step in your entrepreneurial journey.
And while Journeys will be a safe and friendly environment to develop your company and skills, the programme, like entrepreneurship itself, will nevertheless challenge you: we expect participants to commit to taking part in all the programme’s sessions and work independently to advance their projects. The Journeys mentors, experts, and staff will also sometimes present you with tough questions that may require your team to make some difficult decisions to help you avoid common pitfalls in early-stage entrepreneurship.
So, if you’re ready to turn your idea into a business, and see where the entrepreneurial journey can take you and your team, apply for Journeys by 10 August!
WHAT:
Four months of weekly workshops, lectures, and mentoring aimed to get your team ready for the next step of the entrepreneurial journey, be it seeking investment, launching your product or service, or pivoting in a new direction. The programme will be held in English.
WHY:
Come develop a company from your idea and create a career path for yourself with entrepreneurship. At the same time, you’ll learn important work-life skills that you can use in the future, even if you decide that entrepreneurship is not for you. Additionally, degree students and doctoral researchers can earn 8 ECTS credits for completing the programme.
FOR WHOM:
The programme is open to all University of Helsinki students, researchers, alumni, and staff, as well as other in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area who have a clear business idea and the motivation to turn it into a business, be it a startup seeking global growth, or a smaller, more traditional company aiming for local impact. To take part, you will need a team of at least two members. Check out teams from earlier programmes for inspiration!
WHEN:
The call closes on 10 August, and the programme will run from 25 August to 10 December. The programme’s info sessions will be held on 20 May in Porthania, and 21 May in Viikki.
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MORE INFO:
From the Journeys homepage, and from programme managers Pete Karumo pete.karumo@helsinki.fi Andres Archila andres.archila@helsinki.fi and Enrique Montaño enrique.montano@helsinki.fi