All updates from the Centre for Entrepreneurship are now shared via Playground, our new space for entrepreneurial learning—this site remains online for reference.

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Think like an entrepreneur
Pitching
Prototyping
Design Thinking
... and more!

Skills workshops for students
Being entrepreneurial is about creating something new that has value for others.

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  • Entrepreneurial education

    Discover and develop your entrepreneurial side! Utrecht University offers courses and programmes for students and professionals.

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  • Turn your idea into action
    Information for entrepreneurs
  • Teacher support

    We help teachers with their course design and development, provide guest lectures and facilitate an active teaching community on entrepreneurial learning.

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Interview series: enablers of academic entrepreneurship

  • Tessa Scharringhausen Tessa and her colleagues at knowledge transfer office Utrecht Holdings bring scientific research to market and to society.
  • Maarten Flinkenflögel Together with colleagues, Maarten wrote a step-by-step guide for researchers who consider starting a business based on their research.
  • Rianne Poot Rianne, programme manager of the Centre for Entrepreneurship, tells us about entrepreneurial education at the university.
  • Tess van Logtestijn Tess devised an app to keep loved ones informed during intensive medical procedures and now runs the company together with her mother.

Entrepreneurial education showcased

  • 'Dare to fail' Students find solutions for sustainability related challenges in new Da Vinci Project.
  • Living Pasts A multidisciplinary elective course on the history of Utrecht, using data and augmented reality (AI).
  • FBE: Entrepreneurship Demo Day for Science and Business Management students' startups.
  • Intrapreneurship Students boost entrepreneurship within existing organisations.