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Entrepreneurial environment

Collaborate with entrepreneurs

Collaborate with innovative students and startups from the University of Southern Denmark and get competent feedback and new ideas for your business.

Meet innovative students

SDU is teeming with innovative, entrepreneurial students who start businesses during their studies.

Startups are characterised by innovation and innovative solutions. Through working with their startups, students develop practical business understanding and gain experience with the importance of aligning expectations and collaborating.

By collaborating with a startup, your business will gain fresh perspectives and innovative ideas while allowing you to pass on some of your experience in running a business.

  • Join a Community Breakfast to enjoy breakfast, exchange constructive feedback and network with the students from SDU’s entrepreneurial community.

    The Community Breakfast takes place on the first Wednesday of each month at 9.00–9.30 a.m. in Videnbyen on Campus Odense.

    Please write to startupstation@sdu.dk to register.

  • Join a Company Meetup session for an in-depth introduction to SDU’s entrepreneurial environment. For one day, you’ll replace your usual office with a workstation in the SDU Startup Station among SDU’s student entrepreneurs.

    Moving out of your usual settings allows you to view your business and challenges from a new angle and get constructive feedback from enterprising entrepreneurs.

    A Company Meetup can lead to:

    • Concrete collaboration, e.g. internships, projects and student jobs
    • Investments in startups
    • Product development and business relations

    Want to join? Email us at startupstation@sdu.dk .

  • Become a mentor to student entrepreneurs and startups, whether you are an employee of or the owner of a business.

    As a mentor, you must:

    • provide the startup company with constructive feedback four times in six months. You and the company must agree on how and when the feedback will take place.
    • participate in the networking meetings with the other mentors twice in six months.
    • use your knowledge, experience and network to help the startup move forward.

    As a mentor, you will:

    • be matched with a startup that matches your interests and experiences.
    • become part of an exclusive network of like-minded mentors.
    • be invited to panels and participation at pitch events.
    • make a difference when your help, experience and feedback advances the young startups.

    To become a mentor, sign up for Venture Cup’s mentoring database here.

  • SDU Startup Night is a major networking event for SDU’s entrepreneurs and the business community and is held three times a year.

    Startup Night is your chance to:

    • meet startups from all of SDU’s campuses.
    • give presentations.
    • offer feedback to entrepreneurs.
    • share your experience.

    The presentations are on topics that are current or interesting for new companies.

  • Throughout the year, SDU arranges workshops for startups and established companies to equip the entrepreneurs to continue their startup after graduating from university.

    Join our workshops to meet future customers, partners, suppliers, etc.

    Topics for workshops may include:

    • Sales
    • Digital marketing
    • LinkedIn as a networking tool
    • Adobe for app development
    • Law/auditing

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