The BCE Master’s program is followed as an add-on to the Master study. It does not matter which Master you follow: if you study at TU/e you can participate in the program. Subjects you study include entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial marketing, social law and business ethics. Apart from lectures the program features various practical training sessions in presenting, writing, selling, negotiating and networking. All subjects and training sessions are presented in English. If you pass the program successfully, you will be issued with a certificate.
Ivo George works as Master Controller at the BCE. George: “Apart from time, the program will cost students nothing. It is a nice supplement to a regular study. You will be given ample opportunities to develop skills that do not come up in the usual study. Regardless whether or not you decide to start your own enterprise in the end, subjects like negotiating and presenting will always be useful.”
The most important component of the program is the final project, according to George. “That is when students get cracking on their own ideas or an idea proffered by the university, and set up an enterprise based on this idea. The final product is a business plan that must really be feasible.” For the most promising projects the BCE will pay for a coach from the business community.
In order to follow the BCE program, you do not need to be certain that you are in fact going to start an enterprise of your own. It is intended first and foremost as guidance. Beside the formal classes the BCE will also provide workshops, lectures and summer courses. These are open to everybody, so you do not even have to be a participant in the BCE program. (HB)/.
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