Enterprise Challenge
Join our innovative co-curricular adventure with the Enterprise Challenge! This unique programme has been developed to harness your skills and talents, and advance your personal and professional development. At the heart of our Enterprise Challenge lies our engagement with real world challenges faced by companies in the medtech and health sectors including Aerogen, Medtronic, Boston Scientific and Veryan Medical. By participating in the Enterprise Challenge, you’ll experience first hand the transformative power of entrepreneurial thinking. Whether it’s through developing your entrepreneurial skills to advance health and medtech, designing targeted programs, or achieving recognized certifications, our challenge offer you an unparalleled opportunity for growth and development. Elevate your entrepreneurial skills and join a community of forward-thinkers who are ready to make their mark.
Provided by: University of Galway
Course Presentation
The enterprise challenge brings together multidisciplinary student teams to solve challenges donated by our enterprise partners. Over the course of 8 weeks students work through a design sprint incorporating team development, empathy, problem definition, ideation, prototyping, testing and storytelling to develop a solution direction for the enterprise partner. Running alongside their weekly workshops are 5 mentoring sessions (weeks 3-7) which develop students understanding of the problem and the solution fit for the industry and enterprise facing the challenge. Students work for 60+ hours on their Enterprise Challenge for the duration of the programme
The enterprise challenge programme graduate is one who has ignited their passion for innovation whilst nurturing their belief in their creative potential. They are creative and curious, enabling them to discover, explore and play with ideas before developing those with potential for impact. They are excellent communicator and team player who through the course of the programmes we offer have developed their technology and creative skills. They are a confident, creative, resourceful, person centric and resilient student who navigates ambiguity, have an entrepreneurial mind-set and are ready for the future.
The enterprise challenge is co-curricular and focusses on skills and talent development. The Enterprise Challenge has been designed, delivered and evaluated using Entrecomp. EntreComp is a common reference framework that identifies 15 competences in three key areas that describe what it means to be entrepreneurial. Within the Enterprise Challenge, Entrecomp has been used to support policy and practice to develop entrepreneurial skills, to assessing entrepreneurial skills, to design programmes and learning opportunities and to recognised and certify skills.
Outcomes
The enterprise challenge programme graduate is one who has ignited their passion for innovation whilst nurturing their belief in their creative potential. They are creative and curious, enabling them to discover, explore and play with ideas before developing those with potential for impact. They are excellent communicator and team player who through the course of the programmes we offer have developed their technology and creative skills. They are a confident, creative, resourceful, person centric and resilient student who navigates ambiguity, have an entrepreneurial mind-set and are ready for the future
Core Elements:
8 week co-curricular programme
40 students from across all disciplines and years of study
Solving challenges faced across sectors including digital health, medtech and future health
Weekly team mentorship by industry experts
Winning projects receive €1,000 funding
Access to an expert community of innovators and entrepreneurs
We recruit students to this programme in January and September each academic year.
Course details
Venue
University of Galway IdeasLab and Host Company
Deep tech fields
Biotechnology & Life Sciences
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Deep Tech
Country
Ireland
Course language
English
Fee
Free course
Duration (hours)
60
Certificate provided
Yes
Skills addressed
Communication; Creative Agency; Critical Thinking; Empathy; Innovative Thinking; Project Management ;Teamwork; Digital Literacy; Ideation; market validation; business planning; prototyping
Course format
On-site
Target group
Undergraduate-level learners, Postgraduate-level learners
Quality check
Approved
Dates
Current no dates scheduled
Course provider
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