TORONTO MET ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE ​

Global Learning

ENT 401: Design Thinking Bootcamp

Each year, Toronto Met brings 15 students taking ENT 401 and several coaches for the week-long APE International Design Thinking Bootcamp experience at the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE) in Munich, Germany. 

This intensive week-long course is a hands-on experiential learning opportunity for multi-disciplinary teams to implement agile rapid prototyping methods in a creative space. Students work in teams of 4-6 to ideate, observe, prototype and test products, services and/or business models towards a specific challenge such as Future of Retail, eMobility, or Food Innovation. Students will receive instruction in design thinking methods and coaching by experts in the field to help them implement these methods. It is intended that this course will help you acquire and practice the key skills and competencies of Design Thinking including user-centricity, pro-activity, teamwork, creativity and experimentation. It is an intensive experiential learning course that takes place in Munich, Germany.

This transformative educational experience is the opportunity of a lifetime as described in student testimonials. Check some out below!

eBridge Alliance

The eBridge Alliance and the Start For Future provides you with an opportunity to connect with other students internationally and to turn your projects and innovative ideas into real businesses.

Teams and talents with a connection to Toronto Metropolitan University or one of the eBridge Alliance universities, incubators or entrepreneurship centers can apply to any Start For Future SPRINT. Each Start For Future Sprint is run together with international universities and incubators to develop promising international start-ups and innovative co-creation projects.

Throughout the six months period, with the possibility to extend, teams and talents go through several phases to bring forth their business concepts which will result in new promising startups. Business concepts of international teams are matched with the most suitable incubator of eBridge Alliance partners for further support in the development, the incubation (virtual and physical) and market entry. More information and conditions to apply can be found in the Start For Future SCE site.