Futurepreneurs
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Develop your talent as an impact entrepreneur
Do you have a strong drive for impact driven entrepreneurship? Do you want to build a network of like minded talents looking to make a positive impact? And do you want to learn and get coaching from true experts? Futurepreneurs is a pre-acceleration program for young people that strive to be entrepreneurs. In 8 masterclasses given by business experts, and learnings throughout the way, you are trained to become a striving entrepreneur.
Overview learning program
In Futurepreneurs you create and develop your own (future) startup, together with other talent with a drive for entrepreneurship! You work on finding an innovative solution in line with the Sustainable Development Goals to solve worldwide problems. Along this journey, you get a series of masterclasses and workshops from experts. Think of people like Katherine Trebeck (advisor for Jacinda Ardern and professor), Jaap Korteweg (founder The Vegetarian Butcher) and Henk-Jan Beltman (Chief Chocolate Officer at Tony’s Chocolonely).
Learn skills such as business strategy development, the latest knowledge on business plan development, pitching, networking and teamwork. During the program, you are part of and grow an international community of young entrepreneurs interested in actively finding business solutions to societal problems. Along this, you develop a broad new business network. Each team creates an innovative solution, and the best teams get selected for a scholarship! This acceleration program enables you to develop your idea into a viable business for an extra 6 months!
What’s in it for you?
8 masterclasses from the top experts
Coaching on a team level
Experience with entrepreneurship
Potential scholarship
The learning experience
The Program
22 september 2020
Launch event (lecture Katherine Trebeck) - presentation on purpose economy
23 september 2020
Masterclass/Workshop 1 - The Purpose Economy (Introduction: How to make Impact?)
30 september 2020
Masterclass/Workshop 2 - Impact Definition sprint (Finding your purpose, what is the issue you want to impact?)
14 oktober 2020
Masterclass/Workshop 3 - Impact Development sprint (The Gap in Society; how are you going to turn your societal issue into a impact-business opportunity?)
28 oktober 2020
Masterclass/Workshop 4 - Impact infrastructure sprint (Organizing your impact idea, creating a business case for your impact idea)
11 november 2020
Masterclass/Workshop 5 - Impact Prototype, Run & Test sprint (Manifesting and testing your impact)
25 november 2020
Masterclass/Workshop 6 - Impact Project Launch sprint (Implementing your impact)
9 december 2020
Masterclass/Workshop 7 - Impact Pitching training (Selling your impact business idea to the world)
16 december 2020
Impact Day - End of pre-acceleration programme
Announcement winners of the 2 year scholarship programme
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