Opportunities

Slaight New Venture Competition

Presented by Enactus TMU
Do you want to spend your summer working on your startup?
Are you a TRSM student looking for some seed funding to help your business?
If you answered yes to both those questions then apply to the 19th annual Slate New Venture Competition.
The competition awards innovative businesses two prizes of $25,000 startup seed money; one female and one male.

ENT 401 – APE International Design Thinking Bootcamp (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.

ENT 401 – APE International Design Thinking Bootcamp (at TMU, Toronto)

August 2021
The Toronto version of this week-long intensive course is scheduled to take place in August 2021 along with students and coaches from all over the world. We anticipate that up to 35 TMU students will be able to enroll for this highly-competitive course.

eBridge Alliance

Ongoing Support Available
The eBridge Alliance 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 Met University or one of the eBridge Alliance universities, incubators or entrepreneurship centers can apply to any eBridge SPRINT. Each 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. To find out more information on SPRINT 2020 and conditions to apply, please visit the link.