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06 October 2025
4InnoPipe is a joint entrepreneurial program of Reutlingen University (Germany), Zagreb School of Economics and Management (Croatia), Kyiv Academic University (Ukraine), Helsinki University (Finland), ELEKS (Estonia), Luxembourg School of Business (Luxembourg), Kozminski University (Poland) and University of Prishtina (Kosovo). The course aims to help participants acquire the skills to create business solutions with positive societal and environmental impact. It also aims to develop the potential of course participants and to teach them how to apply this potential in whatever they do, as entrepreneurs, active citizens, and employees in the public, private or third sector.
The course consists of the core workshops. In these workshops, participants concentrate on problem framing and problem deep-dive. Through user research, the participants study a social or environmental challenge to identify the source of the problem. Next, they map the customer and user journey and create a data-driven product or service vision. To help participants build a financially sustainable business, they are given an introductory workshop on business modelling. Towards the end of the course, they get a workshop on audience-oriented pitching.
In the scope of the course we are offering the masterclass In Two Minds. The main topic of this full-day masterclass is creativity and overcoming challenges.
The participants can also participate in several coaching sessions on business model creation. In these sessions, the participants will implement and expand the knowledge gained in the first and second block. The coaches focus on five key aspects of the business model: the value proposition; desirability; feasibility; viability; competition.
The course concludes with a pitching event, where participants present their projects and with other teams compete across a range of different categories. This event is the final exam of the course.
This course follows the logic of short work cycles in the sense of double-diamond approach and the scientific method. It is designed as project- and challenge-based learning. The project the participants work on is the venture idea. The participants do not need to have a business idea before entering this course. However, it may help them to progress, if they do already have one. Teaching is based on the principles of competency-based (among others The European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework) and self-directed learning.
The course is open both to beginners and to participants with previous entrepreneurial experience.
If you have any questions, get in touch at lyubomyr.matsekh-ukrayinskyy@reutlingen-university.de
COURSE LECTURES
FINAL EVENT/ EXAM
15.12.2025_18:00-20:30 CET - PITCH YOUR IDEA
MASTERCLASSES
29.-30.9.2025 Masterclass on storytelling in Zagreb organized by ZSEM. (For the time being the plan is to have their book promotion on the 29 September, and MC on the 30 September.)
27.10.205 and 28.10.2025 14:00-18:00 CET Agile Project Management workshops (on site Warsaw plu online) with Olek Prokopiv https://www.linkedin.com/in/oleksandrprokopiv/ (on 27.10) and Ewa Mika (28.10) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ewa-maria-mika/?originalSubdomain=pl) and - part of the DREAMER project meeting with 20 international project members onsite + onsite student conference (42+) (Warsaw)
24.11..2025 16:00-20:00 CET Sustainable Business Models (4h) with Xenia Duffy (onsite in Helsinki or online)
11.12.2025_16:00-19:30 CET Social Network Analysis (4h) with Junaid Ahmad and Andrea Fronzetti Colladon in Warsaw + hybrid
HANDS-ON WORKSHOP/ HACKATHON
24 or 25.10.2025_09:00-18:00 CET – Creathon ‘In Two Minds’ with Colin Bennett (Reutlingen)
7.-8.11 hosting https://digieduhack.com/ Locally in Warsaw, online in cooperation with University of Los Andes in Colombia and Asia-Europe Foundation Format & Timing. The event will run from Friday 16:00 until Saturday 16:00 (7-8 November). Our partners from 4InnoPipe, EUonAIR, LATAM, and ASEF (Asia-Europe Foundation) will be invited to join online.
10.12.2025 Ideathon - Case Study Creation Night - during Blended Intensive Program in Warsaw (in cooperation with Universidad de Los Andes)
(XX.03.2026 - Hackathon - Future(s) of Academic Entrepreneurship during Blended Intensive Program (Warsaw) and Wolves Summit (Warsaw) or as a side event)
LECTURERS
