student profile “I’m amazed with the amount of opportunities we are giv- en as students at Entrepreneurship, as well as the dedica- Mille Thomsen, Entrepreneur tion our teachers and mentors show, providing insight and http://www.nordjydendesign.com/blog/ knowledge for what we do.
I loved the semesters working with Transdisciplinary Design, Design for Change and the Creative SpeedCamp, showing and demonstrating sustainable, desirable, viable and feasable solutions, business models and access to brand new people, networks and business’.” Pictures of Mille working with her prototype at The 3D Printer facility at the multiple workshops available at Godsbanen during the Design for Change and Creative SpeedCamp Courses. “Entrepreneurship at VIA Design is a brilliant place for creating teacher profile new business and meeting all kinds of people with different skills Martin Storkholm, and backgrounds. It is a truly multi-disciplinary team you find external lectorer, Design for Change when the classes are on.
Everybody has something to offer to the community. And every- Martin is Master of Fine Art in Transdisciplinary body is keen to be open, sharing and caring. Design from Parsons / The New school, New York. I’m looking forward to meeting the next years students!” Martin taught Group Dynamics and Transdiscipli- nary Design during the Design for Change Course. Martin has a background in Computer Innovation Science as well as Design for Social Innovation, and teaches all over the world in how group dynamics and interpersonal communication influences our work, life and projects. https://entrepreneurshipvia.wordpress. com/2015/09/24/confronting-reality-work- ing-for-a-serious-change-2015/ project profile Creative SpeedCamp 5’ semester, multi-disciplinary competition
The Creative SpeedCamp is designed to implement the new skills you obtain ; IDea Creation, TransDsiciplinary-, Sustainable- , Value Proposi- tion - Design and estimates your personal abilities to collaborate, relate, pre- and prototype. The project is created in collaboration with a com- pany, (2015; ARLA Foods), and thus your capacity of innovative thinking, project making, customer and market knowledge will be tested. You’ll be working together with some of the finest film & media students from VIA Film & Transmedia,5000 producing kr. goes pitch to movies and presentations. ------“The Creative SpeedCamp was a real Blast. We met new innovative students, brilliant film and storymakers and ------learned a bunch of stuff from the external lectorers from ------Innovation Lab, M2 Film and Parsons / The New School. The best thing5000 was kr. not goes only winning, to but discovering that we actually posses competencies that are required and building a------new and giving network.” ------Masja Lærke------Pedersen, student Entrepreneurship Link: https://entrepreneurshipvia.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/------before-the-finals-creative-speedcamp-now-the-milky-way/------
------project profile Danish Entrepreneurship Award 5’ & 6’ semester competition
VIA Design, Entrepreneurship collaborates with the Danish Foundation for Enterprise (in establishing and developing the best thinkable skills and potentials for our students.)
All Entrepreneurship studens are invited to participate or compete in the Global Entrepreneurship Week in November every year.
We also encourage our students to participate in the yearly National Entrepreneurship Award, in May, as well as some of the winners may join the European Entrepreneurship Competition in June. “I participated in this years competition in Novemeber. With more than 6500 competitors I didn’t believe I’d stand Links: a chance launching my idea of how to teach sustainable http://www.ffe-ye.dk/ Craft. But somehow I made it to the finals and now I’m working on making a first presentation pitch-film with www.award2015.dk some of the students from VIA Transmedia I met, hoping to have my project corwdfunded. I has been a really wild and inspiring ecperience” Lene Sommer, student Entrepreneurship Links: www.facebook.com/lenesommer.dk/?fref=ts http://lenesommer.dk/ creativity, start-up, innovation, design personal assets; skills, experience, continuous feedback for change? personal value creation, proces, feedback starting proces reflections / narratives point product ECONOMIC service profit “All entrepreneurs begin with three categories of means: (1) company business · viability THINKING circular economy Who they are – their traits, tastes and abilities; (2) What they life cycle assesment & management know – their education, training, expertise, and experience; local production & distribution PERSONAL & SOCIAL production proces design and, (3) Whom they know – their social and professional net- people, people · desirability works. Using these means, the entrepreneurs begin to imagine intra & entrepreneurship and implement possible effects that can be created with them.” collaborative designs co-creation Saras D. Sarasvathy - “What makes Entrepreneurs” digital sharing and production Do you have great ideas and a passion for developing them? sharing economy corporate social responsibility ENVIRONMENTAL Do you want to work with developing business ideas, projects, planet technology · feasability and concepts? Would you like to start your own company or viable designs cradle to cradle maybe work with innovation in an organization? DfE - Design for Environment sustainable designs engagement Entrepreneurship is an area of specialisation on the Bachelor collaborate designs top-up degree programme in Design & Business and is located in Aarhus. Through independent thinking and skilled action, you will The speciality lets you work professionally with generating learn to identify and apply new ideas for products and business ideas or projects whether you want to establish your services. own company or work with development in an existing com- You will get familiar with project management and entre- pany. preneurship. In this presentation you can read about the program and hopefully feel inspired. Enjoy! hands-on based , award-winning, You’ll also learn to prototype, develop, exchange ideas at viable, sustainable, global-minded, committed... some of our trans-disciplinary courses with students from Entrepreneurship is an area of specialisation on the Bachelor VIA Film & Transmedia, The KaosPilots, The Animation Work- top-up degree programme in Design & Business at VIA Univer- shop and many other creative educations. sity, and is located in both Aarhus, (Danish classes), Campus C, in the center of the city as well as in Herning, (International At Entrepreneurship we simply believe in letting you build Classes), at our Design Campus. your dreams.
The speciality qualifies you to work professionally with inno- VIA University College, Entrepreneurship was awarded The vation, generating business ideas, projects, and concepts, as Most Innovative University 2014-15. Our students won five both an intra-preneur - working in an existing company or out of eight National Entrepreneurship Awards from 2014- entre-preneur - if you want to establish your own business. 2015. Our focus is the Creative Industry, particularly the fashion and lifestyle industry. You can find some of the already established entrepreneurs, deriving from our study here: Through devotion, commitment and skilled action, you will WeRe: www.were-bags.com learn to identify and apply new ideas for products and services, based on a sustainable and viable business approach. MadRouletten: www.madrouletten.dk
You will get familiar with project development & management, Skaberlyst: www.skaberlyst.dk entrepreneurship, idea generating and innovative tools, which enables you to work using your energy and commitment at Tabt Barndom/Lost Childhood: www.tabtbarndom.dk the best. We use a wide variety of lectorers, best-case examples and teachers from contemporary, creative companies and in- http://en.via.dk/programmes/design/design-and-business- spiring start-up communities, as well as the allocated Assistant bachelor-top-up/entrepreneurship/via-entrepreneurs-cre- Professors are committed and devoted to helping you building ate-potential your dreams. PERSONAL TEST
START-UP DESIGN for European MODUL l+ll MEANS Championship in CHANGE Danish Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship BACHELOR Award, FFE ASSIGNMENT GROWTH AND POTENTIAL FINAL MARKET IDEATION & Danish Championship in PROJECCTTMANAMANAGGEMENTEMENT Entrepreneurship ACTION IDEA FOUNDDAATION
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GO TO MARKET VALUE PROPOSITIONN Careware Innovation Award & LAUNCH Camp CONCEPT BUSINESS TESTING DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT The National Social DOCUMENTATION Entrepreneurship Award
QUALIFICATION EXAM: Events Danish Championship in GO - OR NO GO! Workshops Entrepreneurship Business Exchanges and visits free office, events, network - opportunities VIA INCUBATOR FACILITIESWerner
At the Incubator you will find professional guidance enabling you to turn your ideas into reality.We host a variety of presentations, workshops and events with a focus on expanding your network and knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship.
Being a student entrepreneur at VIA has another great ad- vantage – you can get your own company office facilities, be part of an international start-up community, free mentoring, courses and events. These facilities and freebies are available at both the Aarhus and Herning Campus, - whilst you are a entrepreneur-student and up to 6 months after your B.A.
At the VIA Incubator you will find a wide variety of Entrepre- neurship events, Free Office Facilities for your company or project, - advice on how to start your own business or develop Contact Contact an idea, Entrepreneurship courses and workshops. Annette Qvistgaard Henrik Mariendal Coordinator at VIA Student Incubator Consultant, VIA Student Incubator All services of VIA Student Incubator are free of charge for VIA Campus Herning Campus C, Aarhus students. T: +45 87 55 05 05 E: [email protected] Please contact us or find more information at our websites or E: [email protected] FaceBook sites; Erik Løvgren Brejner https://www.facebook.com/via.incubator.herning/ Rikke Johannesen Coordinator at VIA Student Incubator Coordinator at VIA Student Incubator T: +45 87 55 44 11 https://www.facebook.com/via.studentervaeksthus/ Campus Aarhus C E: [email protected] E: [email protected] 5’ semester, personal means, personal test, potentials, IDEACREATION, inspirations...
During your fifth semester you will be introduced to the overall basics for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Design Thinking; - yourself. Secondly you’ll be ideating your ideas and introduced to the StartUp and the IdeaCreation-Module.
The subject StartUp is divided into two modules. In module 1, the focus will be on the student’s own skills and motivations.
In September, you’ll be introduced to Design for Change. The subjects are Social Design, Cirkular Economy, Sustainable Design, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in a societal context.
In October our “Creative SpeedCamp” is due. Two weeks of intense and focused work for ARLA Foods, together with VIA Links: Film & Transmedia and other creative students. The Creative 5000 kr. goes to https://www.facebook.com/entrepreneurshipvia/ SpeedCamp award is 5000 kr. videos ------www.facebook.com/lenesommer.dk/?fref=ts IdeaCreation is all about ideating on your own project, testing ------the idea, getting feedback, and making description of the pro------ject Course. During this semester you’ll also be introduced to and meet The Danish Entrepreneurship Award, CareWare, The ------Social Entrepreneurship Award and other of the competitions and companies with whom we collaborate. 6’ semester, business & concept develop- ment , study trip, go-no go, internship... During your sixth semester you will be testing your concept, using user-driven innovation and methods from Lean Start Up, Value Proposition Design, and Customer Development, to test if your businesscase is sustainable.
In Business Development, students learn to generate plans for the company that can be implemented. They also prepare a company that can be founded based on these plans.
The importance of networks, financial and juridical matters, dealing with budgets, and risk management are a few of the subject areas you learn to deal with.
During this semester you’ll spend time in your internship - as the only study, you’re able to have your internship in your own business. We also do a study trip 2 weeks - in 2015 / 16 we visited Start-Ups and universities in New York.
You will also get affiliated with some of our project- and competitive partners; The Danish National Entrepreneurship Award, CareWare Innovation. Hopefully you will be amongst the qualified participants in the national competitions, and thereby participate in the events over Spring and Summer. 7’ semester, implementation testing, ACTION, launch, B.A EXAM...
In the course Action you’ll be focusing on launching the project / business case and find models to scale and growth the project/business. You will also work with sales, sales techniques and different approaches to the sales process, and develop a possible growth strategy regarding your concept.
The aim is to sharpen, prepare and help you be an independ- ent business, no matter if you’ll be working as a team, for a company or as a ‘single’ entrepreneur. We will try guiding you through your approach, no matter if it is social, sustainable, autonomous or plain commercial.
We highly recommend you to have multiple projects during your study, as well as teaming up with other students, educa- tional institutions and business are crucial for your succes.
Design Thinking Method and proces During this semester you will be mentored by a tutor from out- side as well as from a teacher from our faculty, as well as we, like the previous semesters, introduce you to multiple external experts and examples for your inspiration.
And so - at the end of this semester you’ll have your idea ready to market, pass your exam and launch. external lectorers / Companies / associated VIA Design teachers profile DENMARK: Dansk Mode og Textil VIA ENTREPRENEURSHIP BestSeller Werner Danvøgg: [email protected] Greene A/S Business Development, IDeation, Business Planning. Lego Coordinator VIA Design Campus Aarhus. Arla Foods Godsbanen Danish Fashion Institute Thomas Østergaard:[email protected] Greenpeace Design Thinking, Design for Change, Sustainable Business Design, Cirku- Aarhus Municipality lar Economy, Social Design. Herning Municipality Coordinator International Classes, VIA Design Campus Herning. Unfair Fashion Danske Sociale Entreprenører SoulShine Henrik Mariendal: [email protected] F16 IDeation, Project Management, Business Development, Viable Business CareWare Design. Coordinator VIA Væksthus Aarhus Sager Der Samler The Kaos Pilots The Danish Entrepreneurship Foundation Institut for X Viking Life Saving Equipment please visit and like our FaceBook site and get more info at our blog:
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