Space Entrepreneurship: from Business Ideas to Start-Ups
Startech 2025 Summer School
Tor Vergata University of Rome, in collaboration with Universeh's WP5 Space Innovation is happy to introduce the Startech 2025 Summer School Space Entrepreneurship: from Business Ideas to Start-Ups.
The goal of this summer school is to provide participants with the skills, tools, and network necessary to conceive, develop, and launch a space start-up within a global context.
Dates and Teaching Modalities
8-12 September: 3 online synchronous sessions
15-19 September: onsite sessions
22-26 September: 1 online synchronous session
LEARNING METHODS & RELATED EXPERIENCES
• Learning-by-doing approach with a strong practice-oriented and interactive component
• Fundamentals of entrepreneurship: online tools to create Business Model Canvas, pitch
decks, and business plans
• Teamwork to develop a space start-up project during the course
• Lecturing and mentoring by, among others, experts from the University of Rome Tor
Vergata (Start Cup Lazio network, Interdepartmental Research Center on
TeleInFrastructures - CTIF Italy, and the Scientific Observatory on Women
Entrepreneurship -OSIF), the AGH University of Krakow, the Luleå University of
Technology, and the Toulouse Business School
• Final presentation (group pitch) during the last day of the school
• Visits, among others, to ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) and to the Rome Future Week
PROVISIONAL LIST OF TOPICS
• Introduction to Space Technology
• The Evolution of the Space Industry: From State Monopoly to the New Space Economy
• Typologies of Orbits and their Commercial Uses
• High Growth Space Start-Ups and their Evaluation
• Governing Space Projects: Strategies to Mitigate Biases and Enhance Decision Making
• Space Tourism: Opportunities and Challenges
• Fostering Women Entrepreneurship in the Space Economy
• CreativAstroPreneurship: Creativity as a Success Lever for Space Entrepreneurship
• Artificial Intelligence and the Space Economy
• Space International Law: The New Challenges
• Spatial Systems: Threats and Weaknesses
How to apply
Submit your application by including:
• CV: describe your relevant experience and state clearly the degree program you are enrolled in (specifying the level: Bachelor, Master or PhD and the name of the program).
• Motivation letter: explaining your interest in the Startech programme, what skills and qualities you would contribute to an innovation team, and mention if you've previously participated in any UNIVERSEH events or activities.
Tor Vergata Students: Stuents enrolled at Tor Vergata University can submit their application via email to startech2025@uniroma2.it with the subject: [STARTECH 25 APPLICATION]
Universeh Students: If you a student of one of the Universeh member universities please contact your university: https://universeh.eu/contact
Deadline
Application Deadline: June 6, 2025, at 12:30 PM
Each participant will receive an attendance certificate.
The course workload is 3 ECTS and it can be validated through a Learning Agreement.
Info
- Pubblicato il : 14/05/2025 Modificato il : 27/05/2025