Entrepreneurs in Science

We invite doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from all disciplines to learn practical methods to innovate, test, and iterate their ideas!

Your Sciencepreneurship Career

Webdesign with WordPress

From-PhD-To-Innovator

Are you a Sciencepreneur?

We invite doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from all disciplines to learn practical methods to innovate, test, and iterate their ideas! In cooperation with the Academic Staff Development of the University of Konstanz we organize workshops for young researchers with creative and innovative minds. Whether you are working on your PhD and want to discover your entrepreneurial strengths, or you want to improve your leadership skills to make your venture a success – our workshops are an ideal starting point. Discover your skills and the potential of your research!

All workshops are for free and can be credited towards the ASD certificate Leadership, Management, Science Communication and Transfer of Knowledge.

Sciencepreneur Compact Design Thinking

The focus of this online workshop lies on ideas and methods. The participants will get to know user-focused methods for developing and implementing ideas. Hence, you will be challenged to solve a problem with the design thinking approach. To do so, you will learn about empathy and user research and how to generate and choose ideas.  In teams you will built and test a prototype and further explore how to iterate the process.

Date: Thursday, 28 September 2023 (9 am – 5pm)
Where: [frei]Raum | Pfaffenwaldring 45 | 70569 Stuttgart (The travel expenses for your trip to Stuttgart can be refunded!)

Registration possible until 20 September

 

Webdesign with WordPress – Build Your Own Website for Research Projects, Spin-Offs or Start-ups

In this online workshop, you will design a website for your own ideas, projects, or start-ups. It offers the opportunity to gain insights into the world of web design, to get to know structured design processes, and to create a first prototype for a website. Neither previous knowledge of computer science nor graphic design is required!

Dates: 21. / 22. September 2023, 9 am – 5 pm

Registration

From PhD to Innovator

In this Young Entrepreneurs in Science Special workshop, you will learn methods from the fields of design thinking, storytelling, and innovation management. Further, you will be shown how to apply them to develop start-up ideas from your PhD project, your other specialist expertise, or from your everyday observations.

The workshop is an invitation to experiment and does not require that you already have a start-up idea!

New dates for this workshop will be published in fall 2023.