2nd Businet International Startup Competition

Blended Intensive Programme ID

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Working language: English, minimum B1 level

Empowering Future Entrepreneurs

The program aims to equip students with entrepreneurial skills through workshops, mentorship, and collaborative projects, fostering innovation and creativity. It promotes international collaboration and sustainable development, aligning with the EU’s Green Deal.

Digital competence is enhanced through online learning modules, preparing students for the global job market. Inclusivity is a key focus, targeting underrepresented groups to create a diverse entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Methods include interactive workshops, personalized mentorship, team projects, online courses, and pitch competitions, leading to practical skills development, strategic thinking, teamwork, digital literacy, and improved business outcomes.

This project will provide several interactive learning opportunities, enabling students to access digital materials, embedded tools, evaluation tasks, and more. It is meticulously designed to achieve three fundamental global objectives:

Pedagogical and Educational Excellence

Establishing a structured learning environment and applying entrepreneurial concepts.

Business Strategy and Planning

Learn how to create a solid business plan that works for everyone involved.

Financial Analysis

Get good at reading financial statements, checking if investment projects make sense, and understanding the money side of different negotiation options.

This programme promises to be a transformative experience, equipping participants with the essential competencies to guarantee their startup’s survival and achieve the necessary scalability to grow rapidly across new markets acting globally.

Methods and Outcomes

Interactive theoretical-practical sessions focused on students and project development (Business model design). Methodologies such as learning-by-doing, and experiential learning with real business challenge resolution, and sessions with entrepreneurs and guests will be promoted. The learning objectives, pedagogical materials to consult and practical activities to be developed will be available in a Google Drive shared folder.

Students will develop the following skills:

• Strategic thinking
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Digital literacy
• Financial analysis
• Pitching and business modeling

Why You Should Join

This international competition offers students the opportunity to:

• Collaborate across borders
• Compete with innovative ideas
• Develop their entrepreneurial mindset
• Pitch their ideas in a unique international Dragons’ Den format

We welcome

We’ve designed the program so that startups and scaleups will collaborate but have separate pitching tracks.

• Students with validated ideas (past the problem–solution fit)
• Early-stage startups
• Scaleups

Coordinating & Host Institution

Full Partners

Application Deadline: September 13th

Application

October BIP Program applications are carried out online and applications are reviewed on a rolling basis!

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Social Activities

Whether you seek adventure or cultural experiences, our diverse activities ensure there’s something for everyone. [Optional, not included on the pack].

List of activities

Pack

This pack is part of the competition and if you do not want it you need a signature approval from your university.

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