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Many start-ups benefit from having a mentor, and a mentor-student relationship can be inspiring for both parties.

Together with UiA Nyskaping we have developed the concept “Mentor for 2 hours”. Within two hours, our students will pitch their business ideas to a room full of potential mentors, followed by a “speed-date” between the students and mentors. The speed-date allows each mentor 10-15 minutes to share their knowledge, contacts and support with our aspiring entrepreneurs. We finish off with food and mingling – and hopefully some students and mentors will decide to continue the mentor-student relationship. 

So far, about 30 experienced mentors have signed up. Are you curious about becoming a mentor? Let us know.

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Last week, head of Shift entrepreneurship Stine Øyna visited Innow‘s podcast “What, why and how” to talk about intrapreneurship – entrepreneurship within existing organizaitons. Innow is one of several excellent student ran businesses related to out student incubator – UiA Nyskaping.

Graduates from Shift has developed the competency required in order to start and develop new businesses, but also to innovate within established businesses. Companies across sectors and industries are facing challenges related to technology, globalization and sustainability and thus need people able to handle these changes. Several companies are now hiring business developers and innovation advisors able to work with renewing status quo. We anticipate that about half of our graduates will be employed by established organizations. In addition to companies aiming to innovate themselves, companies that aim to help their customers to meet the challenges of tomorrow (e.g. PWC or EY) or organizations aiming to help startups succeed (e.g. Innovation Norway) are likely employers of future Shift graduates.

We are happy to announce that Sparebanken Sør is officially a Shift partner. Sparebanken Sør is Agder’s largest local bank and an important contributor to innovation and entrepreneurship in the region. Sparebanken will support Shift with a yearly amount of 1,250 million NOK over a three-year period.

Included in this amount is a yearly innovation award of 50 000 NOK, given to the Shift student team with the most promising business concept.

We are super excited and honored to be supporting the next generation of responsible entrepreneurs together with Sparebanken Sør!

Forskning.no: Universitetet i Agder oppretter i høst et nytt masterstudium i entreprenørskap som skal fokusere på forretningsmulighetene som ligger i globalisering, digitalisering og det grønne skiftet.

This week Shift visited CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is widely known for it’s Hadron collider – the world’s largest and most powerful accelerator – for developing the world wide web, and for the discovery of the higgs-boson. Today, CERN has also established a flourishing environment for entrepreneurship, commercialization, and business development. The people at CERN clearly share our belief in students’ ability to make impact through entrepreneurship and offer a number of opportunities for those interested. Shift returns to UiA with a lot of input to our courses and with plans for how to introduce Shift’s students to the world-class programs at CERN.

Stine Øyna, our inspiring Head of Shift entrepreneurship, is talking about her research on born global evolution in Fædrelandsvennen!

We are currently working hard to get Shift ready for the first intake of students in 2020. During the past few weeks we have been creating promotional material – including filming a video, taking pictures, and making merchandize – and we can’t wait to show you how everything turned out. Spoiler alert – it’s awesome.

Over the next weeks we will tell you all about our program, and present the people making Shift happen – including our management team and faculty, our fantastic student ambassadors, and our industry collaborators.

Stay tuned for more exciting information about Shift here on shift.uia.no, Facebook (UiA Shift) and Instagram (@uiashift).

… Shift’s management team.