A MODULE FOR EVERY NEED
With our flexible set of career enhancing and innovation methodology workshop modules we are responding to our partners’ demand for more flexible formats. Our online modules can be combined to form various workshop lengths, from a 2,5 – 3 hour-session to a full two-days workshop. Request our partner brochure for information about our offline modules via the contact listed below.
Career & Empowerment
Exploring entrepreneurial skills, mindsets and career paths
Modules
- Introduction to working in teams
- Agility and self-organised teams (VUCA)
- Role model Q&A with a team expert
- Introduction to the innovator’s skill set
- Reflection on one’s own skill set
- Discovering the entrepreneurial superpowers within the group
- Deep dive into the concept of social entrepreneurship
- Getting to know different dimensions and examples of social business models
- Brainstorming about potential social business cases
- Exchanging with and learning from role models
- Reflection about one’s own perspectives and mindset
- Getting to know the concept of empathy in human-centred design
- Practising a change of perspective
- Assessing the potential of empathy in one’s research/work environment
- Reflection about the potential of one’s own research topic/idea
- Assessing potential through identifying users/stakeholders
- Developing or extending potential use cases based on one’s research & network
- Learn about the golden circle and the concepts of purpose and impact
- Reflect on the WHY behind your research work
- Think about potential areas of impact that your research can contribute to
- Learn about useful mindsets to cope with stressful situations
- Practise creating room for positive perspectives
- Develop resilience strategies that suit your needs
- Reach clarity and confidence for yourself on the subject of founding
- Reflect on your own resources and potential support
- Get inspired by female founder personalities
- Understand what conflicts stand for and how they can be useful.
- Understand the role of empathy and a change of perspective in conflict situations.
- Get to know strategies for dealing with conflicts and try out.
Ideas & Methods
Discovering user-centric methods to yield ideas and develop them further
Modules
- Understanding a problem as a basis for innovative ideation
- Getting to know different brainstorming methods and test them
- Generating, evaluating, and selecting ideas
- Introduction to building a convincing pitch
- Creating & practising one’s own pitch
- Pitch in front of an expert jury
- Learn and reflect on relevant future trends in a specific field (STEEP trend & key factor analysis)
- Discover possible futures that are worth being prepared for
- Develop a future scenario that you would like to make a reality
- Introduction to rapid prototyping
- Defining the critical function of an idea
- Building a prototype and presenting it
- Understanding the problem space: Getting to know the user and building empathy
- Finding human-centred solutions: Identifying the problem, developing a solution, assessing the ideas
- Prototyping & testing: Building a prototype and testing the critical function
- Introduction to business modeling vs. business planning; getting to know the Business Model Canvas
- Hands-on working with the elements of the Business Model Canvas
- Reflection and exchange on how to apply the tool outside the workshop
- Get to know the basics of storytelling and storytelling frameworks
- Create the protagonist of your story and define your impact
- Learn techniques of captivative storytelling
- Write and narrate your own story
Benefit from our experience and expertise
Our modular workshop formats allow you to be as flexible as ever when it comes to booking the workshop of your choice – if you want to! You can also choose to go with one of our Best Practise Workshops instead. They have been tried and tested in the real-world. Explore our most popular module combinations below.
Our Best Practise Workshops
Onsite
8 h
- Teamwork: Design Thinking Challenge
- Understanding the problem: Empathy & user research
8 h
- Generating & choosing ideas
- Trying out brainstorming methods
- Teamwork: Building Prototypes
- Introduction to testing & iteration
“It was amazing to see how a business idea could be created from scratch – in just two days. The design thinking tools allowed for tangible and immediate results creating a more mature idea that has already undergone a series of short real-world tests.”
Participant in the “From PhD to Innovator” workshop in Oldenburg
21.—22.03.2022
Navigating through Team Dynamics
Teamwork makes the dream work! Disagreements, diverging visions or other issues among team members are a common cause for failure in the startup industry. Learn about different team dynamics and roles, reflect on your personal team experiences and find out what you need to make team collaboration work well.
Discover your Storytelling Potential
You want to be prepared for your next networking event, research presentation or elevator pitch? In this workshop, you learn and practise how to convince supporters or investors of your vision and personality. In this workshop you will get to know the key elements of the storytelling method and put them into practice.
8 h
- Get to know the basics of storytelling and storytelling frameworks
- Create the protagonist of your story and define your impact
- Learn techniques of captivative storytelling
- Write and narrate your own story
- Introduction to building a convincing pitch
- Creating & practising one’s own pitch
- Pitch in front of an expert jury
Master your Pitching Skills
In this workshop, you learn and practise how to convince supporters or investors of your vision and personality. Develop your pitch storyline and receive feedback from our experts and an interdisciplinary team of peers, who are – like you – PhDs or Postdocs with the ambition to innovate.
8 h
- Introduction to the innovator’s skill set
- Reflection on one’s own skill set
- Discovering the entrepreneurial superpowers within the group
- Introduction to building a convincing pitch
- Creating & practising one’s own pitch
- Pitch in front of an expert jury
Pathway to Impact
What impact would you like to create with your research? By looking at the golden circle framework, this workshop focuses on the WHY behind your work. With a view to the Sustainable Development Goals you will think about the potential areas of impact you can create with your own research.
8 h
- Learn about the golden circle and the concepts of purpose and impact
- Reflect on the WHY behind your research work
- Think about potential areas of impact that your research can contribute to
- Reflection about the potential of one’s own research topic/idea
- Assessing potential through identifying users/stakeholders
- Developing or extending potential use cases based on one’s research & network
8 h
- Introduction to the innovator’s skill set
- Reflection on one’s own skill set
- Discovering the entrepreneurial superpowers within the group
- Breaking the entrepreneurial stereotype
- Reflecting on one’s own potential entrepreneurial journey
- Exchanging with and learn from entrepreneurs
- Learning about startup-services and their support programmes
8 h
- Reflection about the potential of one’s own research topic/idea
- Assessing potential through identifying users/stakeholders
- Developing or extending potential use cases based on one’s research & network
- Introduction to building a convincing pitch
- Creating & practising one’s own pitch
- Pitch in front of an expert jury
Online
5.5 h
- Reflection about the potential of one’s own research topic/idea
- Assessing potential through identifying users/stakeholders
- Developing or extending potential use cases based on one’s research & network
5.5 h
“The programme was very well structured with a perfect balance between learning moments as well as elaboration of the newly acquired concepts – alone and in groups.”
Participant in the “From PhD to Innovator” workshop
13.—14.01.2022
Navigating through Team Dynamics
Teamwork makes the dream work! Disagreements, diverging visions or other issues among team members are a common cause for failure in the startup industry. Learn about different team dynamics and roles, reflect on your personal team experiences and find out what you need to make team collaboration work well.
Your Power, Your Story
Our „Entrepreneurial Empowerment“ workshop is designed for women who want to strengthen their personal and professional growth. We invite you to take a diverse look on the topic and discover your hidden potential. Let yourself be inspired by female sciencepreneurs who have taken this path and share their insights through short videos and learn how to tell your own success stories.
5.5 h
- Reach clarity and confidence for yourself on the subject of founding
- Reflect on your own resources and potential support
- Get inspired by female founder personalities
- Introduction to building a convincing pitch
- Creating & practising one’s own pitch
- Pitch in front of an expert jury
6 h
- Introduction to the innovator’s skill set
- Reflection on one’s own skill set
- Discovering the entrepreneurial superpowers within the group
- Get to know the basics of storytelling and storytelling frameworks
- Create the protagonist of your story and define your impact
- Learn techniques of captivative storytelling
- Write and narrate your own story
Build your own YES workshop!
To get started putting together your Young Entrepreneurs in Science workshop, take a look at our module brochure (available in German) and get in touch with us! We’ll be happy to assist you in creating a suitable workshop experience for your participants.
Kathrin Mengis
Partner management and Training & Curriculum
