Arcada Entrepreneurship Hub
You have an idea - we have the tools to bring it to life! Arcada Entrepreneurship Hub helps you identify and realise the next step on your entrepreneurial journey.
About us
The pre-incubator Arcada Entrepreneurship Hub offers you a great opportunity to develop your business idea in a safe and encouraging environment. In our entrepreneurship programme, you get concrete tools and guidance from Arcada's own experts, alumni and external guest lecturers in a unique environment created to support entrepreneurial ambitions.
You also become part of a larger network where you are both challenged and supported, all to hone your idea and produce the very best version of it. Arcada's strength is that we are a multidisciplinary university of applied sciences with all activities on one campus, which creates great potential for new innovations.
Arcada Entrepreneurship Hub has been developed in cooperation with the City of Helsinki and is part of the Campus Incubators Programme. The programme supports entrepreneurship at higher education institutions in the capital region.
What do we offer?
Our entrepreneurship programme focuses on teaching the entrepreneurial mindset needed to build your own business. We have a hands-on approach to entrepreneurship and business and cover the topic from different perspectives, in combination with informative and inspiring lectures by experts.
You will get ideas and support from other participants and people who are entrepreneurs and professionals in different areas. We also try to support participants with mentors.
For ten weeks, you participate in workshops organised twice a week on Arcada’s campus.
The programme in a nutshell:
Who can participate?
Arcada students and alumni are welcome to participate in the programme. You can participate by yourself or as a group. We do not require any previous entrepreneurial experience and you are welcome to participate regardless of your educational and language background.
The programme is suitable for you who:
- have an idea and an ambition to develop something new
- need help to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your business idea
- want to be part of a network where you receive support and feedback
- want to get in touch with relevant people in the industry
- are looking for people who want to help develop your business idea.
Our spaces
Arcada Entrepreneurship Hub has its own modern facilities on campus. The space encourages to creativity and innovation, and has been designed and developed by students during a course focusing on creating entrepreneurial spaces that support working life skills.
The course involved students from different programmes and nationalities, and together they created an activity-based environment where students can aquire vital skills for the future: communication, creativity, personal leadership and digital skills. That is why you will find different zones to train different skills in the Entrepreneurship Hub in A4!
Join us!
The pre-incubator programme takes place twice a year.
Autumn session
- Programme runs 30.9-2.12.2024.
- Application is open 23.8-18.9.2024.