This Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) provides students with a critical and advanced understanding of inclusive entrepreneurship within contemporary innovation systems. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, the programme situates entrepreneurial activity within its socio-economic, cultural, and institutional contexts, highlighting how power relations, inequalities, and structural conditions shape entrepreneurial opportunities and outcomes.
Combining virtual collaboration with an on-site phase at the University of Münster, the BIP integrates academic input, interactive learning formats, and practice-oriented engagement. Students will explore inclusive and sustainable innovation practices, critically examine structural barriers and unequal participation in entrepreneurship, and participate in co-creation processes that emphasise diversity, reflexivity, and shared responsibility.
Designed as an empowerment-oriented and inclusive learning experience, the BIP is primarily aimed at Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD students from diverse social, cultural, and academic backgrounds, with a particular focus on those who identify with underrepresented or marginalised groups or who bring perspectives shaped by diverse lived experiences. Applications from students across all fields of study are welcome.
The programme brings together an international and interdisciplinary teaching team from the Ulysseus European University alliance. Designed as a compact yet academically rigorous experience, it comprises preparatory online sessions, an intensive on-site phase, and a structured follow-up component. Across these elements, students engage in guided academic input, collaborative project work, independent preparation, and reflective tasks.
By foregrounding diversity as a central dimension of learning and collaboration, the programme seeks to create a supportive environment in which a wide range of perspectives can be meaningfully included and critically engaged.
The overall scope of contact hours and structured self-study aligns with the workload typically associated with a 3 ECTS course within the European Higher Education Area. Upon successful completion of all components, including the final project presentation, participants receive a certificate outlining the achieved learning outcomes and documented workload to support recognition at their home institutions. Participants are responsible for arranging adequate health insurance coverage for the duration of their stay in Münster.
