The Advanced Real Project focuses on the concrete development, validation and implementation of your own business ideas. Contents include agile development methods, lean startup, prototyping, market and competition analysis, customer identification and validation, team building and leadership, networking and pitching. The curriculum is based on the latest scientific findings in entrepreneurship education.
Four teams took part in the first round, all of which developed IT-driven solutions. The project ideas ranged from a digital parking management system to improve capacity utilization, a platform to reduce bureaucracy for midwives, a CRM and price calculation solution for used car dealers and an app to increase efficiency in nightclub operations.
Initial experience from the course shows that additional impetus through targeted coaching or matching formats is particularly helpful in the early phase of idea validation - for example when conducting interviews or market research. At the same time, the results illustrate the great potential of the format to effectively promote entrepreneurial thinking in an academic context. The findings from the course will be validated as part of accompanying scientific research and will be continuously incorporated into the further development of future formats.
In future, the Advanced Real Project will be offered in the winter semester. There are plans to link it more closely with the SCE Precelerator, the Community Space for Entrepreneurship & Prototyping at HM.
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The Advanced Real Project course will be offered on Mondays from 10:00 to 13:15 in the winter semester 2025.
Contact: bernhard.wach@hm.edu
