The 4 main points that make this program unique are the following ones:
‐ this entrepreneurial program is proposed to the last‐year bachelor students from the management schools and the engineering schools of the University of Applied Sciences in Western Switzerland, which represents not less than 5 degree programs, from Systems Engineering to Business Administration, going through Business IT, Tourism and Life Technologies.
‐ The teams are constituted with the objective to have as diversified members as possible, in terms of backgrounds, competences, genders and strengths to be brought into them. For this last point, the Belbin process is led, which helps to identify the strengths that anyone can bring within a team, and this is used to create teams who have strengths in all skills.
‐ As the program is firstly based on experimentation, each team must run during the year a “project pilot”, which leads it to go on the market, including the management of the supply chain, the finances, the project management, the HR and soft skills, and of course to meet its customers and realize a sale act during a life‐size iteration.
‐ To get more flexibility in managing seed money for the teams, an association with the same name was created, in which all the alumni become members. They are involved in the program in several ways, such as being one‐time sparring partners for the new school ventures, or becoming mentors and/or co‐financers for them. by operating in this way, the network becomes particularly efficient.