Postgraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering - Foundations

Combine a unique experience in a company with an individual training programme

Postgraduate certificate • 29 ECTS • English programme

For engineers, work experience and entrepreneurial and professional competences are more important than ever. With the Postgraduate Programme in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering - Foundations you have the opportunity to gain some unique experience in the business world while working on innovative projects. You will be in a better position to make the right career choice and to enter the job market at a higher level after this postgraduate programme.

The postgraduate programme focuses on innovation and implementation from an entrepreneurial perspective. The programme comprises an innovation internship (20 credits) and an individual training programme with courses comprising at least 9 credits. You put together your own programme based on the competences you wish to continue developing. In addition, you can choose from courses across all participating universities.
During the internship, you work on an innovative project in the organisation’s (international) working environment. You can select a project from our list of available projects or suggest your own.

(Near-) graduate engineers are admitted to the Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering - Foundations postgraduate after an application and a selection procedure.

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Language requirements:
All applicants who have not obtained a previous diploma in a programme taught in English in Australia, English-speaking Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America must submit a certificate proving their proficiency in English.

The English proficiency test scores accepted are the TOEFL iBT certificate and the IELTS Academic certificate.

TOEFL iBT: we only accept the TOEFL iBT, including the Home Edition and Paper Edition, with a minimum score of 79.
IELTS: we only accept the IELTS Academic test in its three formats: on paper, on computer and online. The minimum overall score required is 6.5.

Contact: karine.evers@uhasselt.be

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