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Explore your opportunities:

• Sustainability Bootcamp (SB)

  In collaboration with Vali Berlin, the sustainability bootcamp brings students, corporations, startups, NGOs and other like-minded entrepreneurial talents together to conceptualize solutions for the greatest challenges of the 21st century that can then be developed into new ventures. 

  Vali Berlin serves a platform on which the ESMT community can engage, develop new ideas, find collaborators and acquire resources to develop and scale their startup. 

  The Vali community consists of a broad range of individuals and organizations, including students, alumni, faculty, serial entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and subject matter experts. 

  Visit Vali for more information on the Ideation Bootcamp. 

  

• Summer Entrepreneurship Program

  The Summer Entrepreneurship Program (SEP) helps you develop and elaborate your own startup ideas. Over three months during the summer, you will work on every aspect of your startup, from finding co-founders and identifying trends and problems, to building your product or solutions and pitching to Venture Capitalists (VCs) and angel investors. The program includes an ideation process where you will either generate or validate ideas. Participants benefit from expert mentoring, access to the ESMT and Vali Berlin network, and a structured series of workshops led by entrepreneurs and thought leaders.

   

  Value Proposition 

  • Identify problem opportunities
  • Validate problem and solution through customer discovery
  • Connect with tech and business talents
  • Meet potential co-founders
  • Gain valuable insights into trends, technologies, and sustainability 
  • Develop landing pages, prototypes and an MVP 
  • Receive mentorship and coaching 
  • Meet the Vali network, including investors and serial entrepreneurs 
  • Get access to the Vali Hub in Berlin-Schöneberg

• Internship

  Alternatively, you can pursue an internship at a company's innovation or intrapreneurship unit. Between April and September, the internship will have a minimum duration of 12 weeks, but you may choose to do a longer internship of up to six months.  

  ESMT's Career Services team helps you to find the right opportunity and prepare professional and convincing applications for your chosen positions. 

  Internship examples include:

  • Daimler working as a Venture Architect
  • EY working in Consulting
  • Siemens Energy working as a Strategy and Business Development Intern
  • Kearney working as a Summer Trainee
  • Tesla working in Business Operations
  • Bain & Company working as an Associate Consultant Intern

• NEXT program, Deep Tech Innovation Program or Corporate Innovation Project

  The NEXT- B2B Accelerator Program supports ventures created in the Summer Entrepreneurship Program in six different areas:  

  • Product-market fit 
  • Human capital 
  • Fundraising 
  • Legal  
  • Administrative 
  • Tax issues.  

  Learn more about the NEXT program 

  You will have the opportunity to join and advise startup founders by participating in the Deep Tech Innovation Program. ESMT Creative Destruction Lab Berlin the first CDL Lab in Germany. 

  Learn More about Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)

  For the Corporate Innovation Project (CIP), you will either deliver an innovation consulting project or develop venture ideas together with a corporate partner. 

   

   

• International Exchange Semester

  Students who choose to do Corporate Innovation Project (CIP) will have the opportunity to spend an academic term (term 4) abroad at one of ESMT's top-ranked partners in Europe and beyond.