EuroTeQ Collider: Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Entrepreneurship

About this course

During this innovation-learning journey to enhance your understanding of the societal challenges we face, you will co-create solutions towards a sustainable future.

The collider is the signature challenge-based co-creation activity of the EuroTeQ project that occured for the first time in Spring 2022. The collider is based on a process of selecting and working with multi-stakeholder driven ideas and challenges within a selected theme. More information about the specific challenges will be published online via: https://www.tue.nl/en/our-university/about-the-university/university-alliances-networks/engineer-the-future-with-us/

The structure of the collider will allow one to form and participate in interdisciplinary – international teams consisting of students and in collaboration with lifelong learners. Together you will work on open-ended challenge-based projects while developing a broad set of soft-skills aiming at improving your capabilities to: a) offer an innovative and entrepreneurial solution that is not only technically et; b) address uncertainty and acting while being out of your comfort zone. At the end of the collider all participants will pitch their results in a European context and have a chance to join the EuroTeQaThon. The ultimate goal of these events is to collectively develop solutions and actionable opportunities to create a desired future.

Expected learning outcomes

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Select and apply appropriate design, engineering and business approaches and tools to create an innovative and science-based solution to a real-life challenge.

• Develop a profound interpretation of a complex, real-life problem and it’s context using a system-thinking approach, taking into account multiple perspectives.

• Develop a problem-driven, creative and integrative design, demonstrated by a (tangible) prototype harmonizing social desirability, technical feasibility and entrepreneurial viability.

• Use disciplinary knowledge and expertise in an inter-disciplinary team to develop an innovative and scientifically sound solution in a European context.

• Communicate your ideas, at different levels of elaboration, via several mediums in an international context to a diverse set of stakeholders.

• Define and regularly reflect on personal and team development.