Entrepreneurship School & ZEGM Flex Elective Courses

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Discover perspectives for self-employment and freelancing, train leadership, and implement sustainable project ideas. Become an FHPreneur!

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More than a job: think.Beyond!

With the ZEGM Flex elective modules, the FHP Entrepreneurship School offers an interdisciplinary variety of analogue and digital formats for testing self-employment, developing start-up ideas and training future leadership skills. The Flex seminars, workshops and coachings of the Entrepreneurship School promote important skills for coping with future work situations and enable well-founded business start-ups or freelance activities.

"skill your future" - with the ZEGM-Flex elective modules

Students from all departments have the opportunity to have the ZEGM-Flex elective modules credited to their Bachelor's or Master's degree programme with the corresponding credit points. Per course, 5 to 10 ECTS credit points can be collected.

Department members can find information and offers on the Flex modules in the respective course catalogues, in Moodle and on the FHP Entrepreneurship School website. Enrolment for the Flex elective courses takes place on the ZEGM Moodle board. Access is granted via the individual campus account.

Realisable start-up ideas or concrete plans for freelancing or self-employment can be accompanied in parallel or afterwards by targeted advice and coaching on financing, funding and networking events. All offers of the start-up service and the Entrepreneurship School are non-binding and free of charge.

To the ZEGM Moodle Board

The Flex module programme "skill your future & get credits"

  • The Flex elective modules are available to all students in Moodle for content and credit points overview as well as enrolment.
  • Depending on the focus, the 6 modules teach business basics, project development know-how, and entrepreneurship qualifications.
  • Participants develop the sustainable project and start-up ideas, learn about the requirements for self-employment and/or implement a (fictitious) start-up project.
  • If desired, the participants can receive further advisory services

"Introduction to entrepreneurial thinking"

Content (excerpt):

  • Basic business assumptions (e. g. rationality, success, sustainability)
  • Dealing with sustainability in a business context
  • Requirements for managers and fields of management activity
  • Key figures and evaluation approaches for success
  • Basics of costing
  • Basics of investment calculation (e. g. building up equity capital), financing
  • Insight into selected operational fields (e. g. marketing, production, organization, human resource management)
  • Company and corporate forms

Enrolment in Moodle
(5 ECTS credits Bachelor/Master)

(Hybrid event)

Content (excerpt):

  • Management requirements for forward-thinking companies (e.g. market competitiveness, patents and licences)
  • A structured approach from idea generation to implementation (e.g. analysis, prototyping, process improvement)
  • Specific features of innovation-based services, with a focus on the Canvas approach to business model development
  • Insight into key business performance indicators

Enrolment in Moodle
(5 ECTS credits Bachelor/Master)

“During the course, students develop a business idea and use AI as if it were a co-founder: as a sparring partner for strategy, as a tool for rapid prototyping, to take the strain off day-to-day start-up operations, and to complement their own skills.”

Content (excerpt):

  • AI for strategy and positioning
  • AI for product development and prototyping
  • AI for day-to-day start-up operations and workflows
  • AI for visibility and marketing
  • AI and legal safeguards

Enrolment in Moodle
(5 ECTS credits Bachelor/Master)

"Implementing concrete start-up projects professionally".

Content (excerpt):

  • Basics of project planning and project management
  • Requirements for start-up projects (including EXIST funding applications)
  • Techniques of market analysis and target group identification
  • Characteristics of start-up projects (e.g. for freelancers)
  • Workshops for founders on selected topics (e.g. founder personality, marketing, accounting, law, organizational and team development)
  • Reflection rounds with successful freelancers/entrepreneurs

Enrolment in Moodle
(10 ECTS credits Bachelor/Master)

How much FHPreneur do you have in you?

Is self-employment a conceivable option? A short test shows how much entrepreneurial potential there is and what suitable support we offer.

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I am passionate about my ideas and can easily get others excited about them
I would like to organise my working hours freely
I can adapt well to other people and new situations
I keep a cool head in stressful situations

Contact

Prof. Dr. Enrico Sass

Professor for Business Start-ups and Management Techniques
Head of Start-up Service

Anke Lüers-Salzmann

Project coordination ESF and EXIST, initial consultation

Funding information

  • EXIST – University-Based Business Start-Ups

    EXIST is a funding program of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) and the European Social Fund Plus (ESF plus).