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RUN InnoBootCamp

Hands-On Innovation & Entrepreneurship Training for Students and Educators Across Europe

Entrepreneurship Starts Here. Innovation Gets Real.

The RUN InnoBootCamp series offers a unique, practice-based learning experience for students and educators who want to apply entrepreneurial thinking to real-world challenges. It’s part of the RUN InnoBoost project, an initiative of the RUN-EU European University and the EIT HEI Initiative, designed to foster innovation capacity, start-up creation, and transdisciplinary collaboration across Europe.

Structured as a blended learning journey, RUN InnoBootCamps combine flexible online modules with hands-on in-person collaboration. The experience is designed to build concrete competencies in:

Bioeconomy

Future Industries

Social Innovation

Beneficial to students preparing for career readiness or further studies and educators advancing innovative pedagogy, this is your chance to work across disciplines, borders, and institutions, and make a real impact.

What's Included?

Online BootCamp (Sept 15–Oct 3, 2025) – 2 ECTS

The Online journey is divided into 3 different weeks. Each week with an entrepreneurial topic of their own.

Week 38 Created by NHL Stenden on Entrepreneurial Mindset

  • Introduction on Entrepreneurial Mindset
  • Lecture: Who am I as entrepreneur?
  • How to stimulate Entrepreneurship: Inspiration session
  • Diverse Insights in Entrepreneurship
  • Center for Entrepreneurship NHLS: The Entrepreneurial Mindset
  • Reflection on the interactive online Sessions

Week 39 Created by HAMK on Design Thinking and Innovation

  • How To Innovate?
  • Design Thinking
  • Design Sprint
  • Case Study

Week 40 Created by TUS on Lean Start-Up

  • Lean Start-Up: Lean Start-Up & Customer Discovery
  • Market Understanding & Validation
  • MBP Strategy & Competitor Analysis
  • Value Proposition
  • Design, Prototyping & Go-To-Market
  • Financial Modelling & Management

FYI

The Online BootCamp will be assessed with a PASS/FAIL. Each week represents it’s own entity in the grading. The students that have passed the Online BootCamp are also entitled to further be selected to Intensive InnoBootcamps on NHL Stenden (week 43) or TUS (week 46)

In-Person BootCamps (Oct–Nov 2025) Hosted at HAMK, NHL Stenden and TUS – 1 ECTS

Who Should Join?

Students:

  • Earn 3 ECTS
  • Build practical innovation and business skills
  • Join teams solving real challenges
  • Network internationally and prepare for the workforce

Educators:

  • Learn and apply innovation pedagogy in action
  • Collaborate across institutions
  • Engage in co-design of real-world educational experiences
  • Receive certificates and integrate materials into your teaching