Entrepreneurship Labs 2020

 

Call Objective
Within the Campus mission, Entrepreneurship Labs (E-Labs) are a part of our European Network of
EIT Health Entrepreneurship Labs. Their primary objective is to inspire and empower health
innovators of the future, including entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and other innovation-minded
individuals within organisations, to incubate ideas, health innovation and start-ups. This educational
offering provides its participants with alternative ways of thinking and acting that are opportunity-
driven and holistic in approach, with the purpose of creating economic, cultural and/or social value
for others.
Campus is calling for proposals for semester-long E-Labs that will train a minimum of 50 students
using interactive learning-by-doing methods, based on real challenges and needs in the healthcare
sector. E-Labs are designed to educate, empower and connect learners from different disciplines to
acquire an entrepreneurial mind-set, to increase the exchange of knowledge and best-practices
between learners and their peers, to communicate and connect with mentors and other
entrepreneurs, and to aspire to create value and innovative solutions for society that will ultimately
improve innovation potential on a European level. E-Labs stand in the middle of the innovation
journey, offering students, young professionals and entrepreneurs an opportunity to learn about
and experience early incubation in their entrepreneurship journey, by connecting them to the
knowledge triangle of education, research and business.
Prior to E-Labs, students may take part in trainings such as Innovation Days (1-2 day programmes)
and Summer Schools (2-3 week programmes), during which participants are briefly introduced to
the skills related to entrepreneurship and innovation. E-Labs, on the other hand, provide the next
step in the innovation journey by supporting participants in further developing these skills and
applying them to specific challenges within the field of health and healthcare. E-Labs participants
gain the unique opportunity to work in a longer time-frame and deeper level to develop solutions to
these health challenges, thereby getting a high level of entrepreneurship training. Participants
ultimately develop business ideas and/or build prototypes to a maturity that can support them in
the next phase of their innovation journey (e.g. Campus programme Innovation Fellowships,
Accelerator programme Bootcamps, etc.).

 

More information on the call here

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