Projects with ECTS

Are you curious about life as an entrepreneur or are you already working on your own startup? You can take a project-oriented course or an academic project with ECTS in your own or someone else's startup. You get a unique opportunity to test your professional knowledge in practice. You step directly into the engine room and take part in all phases from idea development to execution. As an intern in a startup, you become part of everyday life at KU Lighthouse and participate in our workshops for interns, events and all the other things that take place in a house full of enterprising entrepreneurs.

LEAD IN

As part of an academic project in your own startup, you participate in LEAD IN, which introduces the steps that a startup typically goes through in the process from idea to business. Topics include problem validation, market needs, business development, idea development, prototyping and more.

Business development and academic guidance.

You also participate in mandatory business development meetings with an innovation consultant 3-4 times during the project. In these sessions we discuss how to reflect academically on the learnings from the practical development of your startup.

  • How to put knowledge from workshops into play with innovation theories and academic reflections.
  • Which literature, theory and methods from the field of entrepreneurship must be included in your exam.
  • How you handle project management in relation to both your startup and graduation.

The business development is a supplement to the guidance from your academic supervisor and gives you extra insight into how you can balance the practical development of your startup with innovation theories, business development and the entrepreneurial process.

The academic supervisor has expertise in your subject area, the formal requirements and learning objectives for the exam. The academic supervisor is responsible for the assessment of your project and can help you with content related to the academic learning objectives from your field of study; for example problem formulation, method or specific professional knowledge for the exam.

How to apply

  • Book a meeting with us to plan the process. We help to investigate the possibilities for your education.
  • Sign up for LEAD IN (offered 3-4 times a year)
  • Find an academic advisor on your course
  • Register for the project or the courses via self-service by the course registration deadline (See KUnet)

Rules

  • You must be a student in a program that allows project-oriented courses or elective projects.
  • Your project must be approved by an academic supervisor or your study before you begin.
  • Start your preparations the semester before you want to take the academic project.

The program has been developed with support and collaboration from the EU regional and Social Foundation through Startup in Practice and UCPH Innovation Hubs.