The aim of Manage and More is to provide you with the necessary skills, experience and network to become a successful entrepreneur.
Kick-off Weekend
Before the semester starts you will go on a little kick-off weekend where you will get to know the fellow students and the management team.
Next to several team building activities you will also learn more about the program and the different opportunities available to you.
Business Design Bootcamp
Before the semester starts you will furthermore participate in the Business Design Bootcamp of one week. Here you will get to know the design thinking approach through several hands-on activities.
You will then apply this approach of coming up with innovative ideas in the Business Design Deep Dive.
Business Design Deep Dive
This is the project you will be working on during your first semester. In a group with other scholars you will apply the design thinking approach to a business challenge provided by a partner company or VentureLab (3/4 of your time).
Area Commitment
In the first semester you will choose one of the areas you commit to work in (1/4 of your time).
And More
On top of your project and the areas there are additional offers for every member.
Start-Up Project
You develop your own start-up idea and drive it forward with your team.
Area Commitment
Continue working on the area you chose in the beginning or explore a whole new topic.
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Enhance your experience with additional offers.
The heart of your second and third semester is the Start-Up Project. This is your arena to turn entrepreneurial ambition into a tangible venture. Whether you already have a breakthrough idea or are simply driven to build something from scratch, this is where you take action.
No Idea? No Problem. You do not need a pre-set business plan to succeed here. You will find your future co-founders within our interdisciplinary community and identify market gaps together. We provide the ecosystem where passion meets opportunity.
Expert support every step of the way. You are never building in isolation. Throughout the entire process, you are backed by experienced coaches, expert feedback and peer power.
Real world experience. This is the most intensive part of the program. You will invest your time into validating, prototyping and pitching your venture. It is your first real step as a founder in Europe's most active startup hub.
Additionally to the essential parts at Manage and More there are a number of optional elements that you can choose next to the mandatory program.
We are convinced that if you want to lead others, you must first learn to lead yourself. As a scholarship holder, individual sessions with coaches are available to you. The focus here is on your personal development and the topics you would like to work on individually. This could for instance be navigating the entrepreneurial ecosystem as a woman. Sounds exciting? It is! Take your individual skills to the next level.
Get to know new people, companies and ideas throughout the semester. Examples are our Meet and Mingles at various startups in Munich where you get to know the company as well as the people, the Start and Spread – one of the biggest pitch events in Munich, our Start-up tour to the hotspots of the start-up scene worldwide, experience days at companies such as BMW and many more!
Each semester, you can participate in up to 15 exclusive workshops led by experts in order to reflect on your individual strengths and weaknesses and work with them. Topics include, but are not limited to leadership, self-organization, rhetoric, artificial intelligence, unconscious biases and many more!
Mentoring at Manage and More provides you with an experienced professional. You will be matched with a person that can help you with your individual interests, needs and career goals and give you insights from their professional as well as private experience. This is a great opportunity to get insights into environments you would like to immerse yourself in after your studies.
Selected Manage and More scholars get the opportunity to go abroad through one of our international cooperations. We hold partnerships with renowned universities and companies around the world which enable our scholars to broaden their horizons.
When going abroad for some time you take a break from Manage and More and continue the program after you have returned.
Each year selected scholars get the chance to go to Stanford University for a couple of months to do research for their master thesis. The application and selection process takes place internally.
Go abroad to Brazil for an internship at NEDGEX in the buzzing city of Florianopolis. Take ownership of your own innovative ideas and get inspired by the very supportive team and ecosystem.
Each year selected scholars get the chance to go to Cambridge University for a couple of months to do research for their thesis. The application and selection process takes place internally.
