Entrepreneurship: Deep Dive into Entrepreneurship

About the Deep Dive into Entrepreneurship summer school

• Facts

  Dates:

  5 August – 23 August 2024

  Language:

  English - please note that VIA University College requires students attending VIA Summer School to be fluent in English. All summer schools require active participation both orally and in writing. This means students must have an English level of at least B2 (CEFR scale) upon arrival. You can find more information about language requirements here.

  Credits:

  5 ECTS

  Academic level:

  BA level

  Prerequisites:

  Students must have completed 1 year of study at bachelor level.
  
  Students must be at least 18 years old to apply.

  Maximum enrolment:

  Maximum 30 participants. Students are accepted according to a first come, first served basis.

  Application deadline:

  1 April 2024.

  Location:

  VIA University College, Campus Aarhus C, Ceresbyen 24, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.

• Structure and content

  Content

  The goal of our entrepreneurship course is to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the entrepreneurial journey. We achieve this by integrating theories, self-reflection, and hands-on exercises. This approach equips you with the ability to translate these theoretical concepts and insights into real-world applications. Our primary objective is to provide our students with the realisation that entrepreneurship revolves around the core elements of ideas, resource utilisation, and decisive action.

  Learning outcomes

  Knowledge

  • Obtain a profound understanding of how to use reflection in areas as innovation, entrepreneurship, establishing and qualifying a business identity
  • Understanding complexity in business, leadership and projects generating value on entrepreneurial premises

  Skills

  • Ability to establish, identify and differentiate a business idea on practical as well as immaterial perspectives
  • Ability to integrate the entrepreneurial way of working on personal-, team- and organizational level
  • Ability to use many sources and perspectives for creating value in projects, idea generation etc.

  Competences

  • Acquired competencies to generate business ideas, qualify business ideas, reflect on operationalize business ideas
  • Obtain a fundamental knowledge of how entrepreneurship differs from more traditional ways of thinking about business
  • How to handle complexity in relation to business creation or change
  • How to handle personal characteristics related to the student and business partners

  Teaching methods and study activities

  During the course, students must in groups develop, qualify, and concretize a business idea. At the same time, they will work on developing their own skills/competences. The teacher decides what the specific assignments are about. Both assignments result in reports that must be handed in. The course will comprise of lectures, company visits, group work and individual work related to the assignments. Other relevant types of teaching could also come in play. It is required and necessary for the student to prepare thoroughly by reading the specified literature and the tasks, which are specified in the plan of lectures.

  Exam

  Oral group examination consisting of a group presentation followed by a discussion between students and examinators. The duration of exam will be 60 minutes to groups of three to four people or 75 minutes to groups of five or six people. The examiner will be internal. Individual grade is based on overall assessment of written group report, presentation and discussion.

  The summer school is based on the learning objectives in the curriculum of VIA Global Business Engineering, p. 34 (Danish)

   

• Fees and tuition

  EU-citizens = 5.450 DKK
  Non-EU citizens = 9.350 DKK

  Tuition fee waivers

  Students from VIA, VIA's partner institutions abroad and other Danish institutions are eligible for tuition fee waivers for this course, if they can provide documentation for approval of credit transfer.
  
  Please contact VIA Summer School if you have any questions.

  Social programme

  To attend our social programme, all summer school students in Aarhus need to buy an access card of  €30. Read more about the social programme and what the card gives access to here.

  Course fee includes

  Classes and tuition
  Electronic graduation certificate
  
  Accommodation, meals (food and drink), insurance, visa and travelling expenses to and from Denmark are not included in the fee.
  
  Note: This course is offered as a part of the regular bachelor programmes. Seats available after allocating seats to credit-transfer students from VIA University College, Danish Higher Educational Institutions and partner institutions are offered under the Empty-place Scheme and the rules of Danish Open University. You must meet the admission requirements for the degree programme under which the course is offered. If you have any doubt or questions regarding this please do not hesitate to contact VIA Summer School.

• Apply here and contact

  Apply now

  Apply here

  For more information about the application process go to How to apply to Summer School.

  If you are a student from VIA Global Business Engineering (Eksportingeniør) you do not have to provide us with a credit transfer.

  Contact us via email

  VIA Summer School

  summerschool@via.dk

  Please note: If you are accepted, please wait for a final confirmation that the course will be held as a minimum number of students is required to run the course.

  Please do not enter any cost-commitments (such as visa applications, travel etc.) before you have received written confirmation from VIA Summer School that the course will be arranged, since VIA has no possibility to reimburse costs when courses are cancelled.