Mindspace University Curriculum
Mindspace University program will be held entirely online in two stages:
Stage 1
Duration
November 9th to December 9th
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon
Stage 2 - 1-1 group mentoring sessions
Duration
January 7th to January 22th: Each team gets a dedicated mentor for 1-1 mentoring sessions
January 25th: Presentations skills Workshop
STAGE 1
Structure
This stage is implemented via online webinars and virtual classrooms and the goal is to introduce you to an entrepreneurial mindset, make you more familiar with common terms & methodologies of entrepreneurial programs, help you understand the Energy industry sector & its fundamental economic & technological concepts and get an insight on technologies & strategies to address major challenges in the Energy sector. Moreover, you learn the process of generating an idea and get trained in the Business Model Canvas principles so as to structure your idea with your team, as you will be asked to submit a business model canvas at the end of this stage
Duration
November 9th to December 9th
Every Monday, Wednesday & Friday afternoon
Team matching
During this stage, we help you find a team or match you with other talented peers depending on your skills and interests via team meeting sessions towards the end of the program’s second week. In case that you already have a team, you participate with your team as it is. The best teams that will be selected from a judging committee will enter Stage 2.
Curriculum
24 live, online 1-hour webinars
Topics Include:
1. Entrepreneurship - Fundamentals
2. Could I be an Entrepreneur?
3. Merging Entrepreneurship & Technology
How Merging Entrepreneurship & Technology Will Benefit
Sessions & Speakers
SESSION 1
Childhood, Educational and Employment Experiences that Limit Your Entrepreneurial Mindset - Age & Entrepreneurship
Marios Anapliotis
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SESSION 3
Employee vs Entrepreneur
Marily Nika
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SESSION 5
Work life balance (Dealing with stress, failure, Visualize success and daydreaming)
Kouris Kalligas
SESSION 7
Transition from an engineer or from tech to business owner
Marios Anapliotis
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SESSION 2
Adopting Your New Entrepreneurial Mindset
Kouris Kalligas
SESSION 4
Common personality traits - Entrepreneurial Mindset Characteristics
Cheryl Edison
SESSION 6
Public Speaking - How to tell your story
Daniel Mc Cormac
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SESSION 8
Resourcefulness: Using what you have to generate business opportunities and Choose the right team members
Konstantinos Kalligeros
Topics Include:
1. Energy Fundamentals
2. Technology, Digital Transformation & Energy Transition
3. Generate an Idea and Structure a Business Model
Sessions & Speakers
SESSION 9
Introduction to 21-st century energy challenges & The future energy leader
Anastasios Koumparos
SESSION 11
The 3Ds - Digitisation, Digitalization and Digital Transformation (Overview of Industry 4.0 technologies & Society 5.0)
Michael Petychakis
SESSION 13
Technology Trends of Today (Internet OF things, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning) & their Business Impact
Michael Petychakis
SESSION 15
Energy Technology and Impact on the Environment
Natalia Paraskevopoulou
SESSION 17
Business Strategy in the Energy Industry
Natalia Paraskevopoulou
SESSION 19
Political and financial support for the energy transition (capital, regulation, ESG investments, corporate buy-in)
Konstantinos Kalligeros
SESSION 21
Step by step guide to coming up with idea
Cheryl Edison
SESSION 23
Service vs. Product businesses
Yiannis Perakis
SESSION 10
The Energy Value Chain
Antonios Panagiotopoulos
SESSION 12
Modelling for Energy Systems
Anastasios Koumparos
SESSION 14
Key Digital Technologies & their applications in the Energy sector
Yiannis Perakis
SESSION 16
Workshop with Value Drivers or Digital Transformation in Energy Industry : Case study using AI
Angelos Gkanoutas-Leventis
SESSION 18
Approaches to net zero / managing the energy transition
Antonios Panagiotopoulos
SESSION 20
How to industrialise your idea
Jenny Leivadarou
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SESSION 22
Focus on adding value and solving problem
Marily Nika
SESSION 24
Business Model Canvas principles (examples of disruptive business models and huge companies canvas)
Angelos Gkanoutas-Leventis
STAGE 2 - 1-1 group mentoring sessions
Structure
The 10 best teams that were selected in Stage 1, attend Stage 2 to get 1-1 mentoring sessions so as to interact with their mentors and improve their idea. To be more specific, they dive into more details and experiment on entrepreneurial tools in order to finalize their business idea and submit a business model and a short pitch video (less than 2 minutes), which will be shared with the judges
Finals
Duration
January 7th to January 22th: Each team gets a dedicated mentor for 1-1 mentoring sessions
January 25th: Presentations skills Workshop
Each team joins a virtual event to present its business idea to the judges, claiming 10.000 Euros, free attendance to Mindspace Trip in the USA, access to major incubation and acceleration programs such as the three-month accelerator program of AUEB (ACEin)- ENNOVATION and moree. Additionaly, there will be 2 runners up who will get significant discounts to participate in Mindspace Trip.
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PARTNERS
U.S. Embassy Athens
The United States Embassy in Athens is supporting, enabling us to offer the program for free to all participants
The People's Trust
The People's Trust kindly provides a 10,000 EUR grant to the winner of Mindspace University
Eurobank
Eurobank sponsors Mindspace activities including part of Mindspace University
Heron
Heron kindly sponsors the Mindspace University program
Meet And Code
Meet and Code aims to introduce children and young people between the ages of 8 and 24 to the world of technology and coding.
Greek Energy Forum
Greek Energy Forum supports Mindspace University with mentors and its deep knowledge in the Energy Sector
