Entrepreneurship in our education

The power of entrepreneurial skills
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Coming up with innovative ideas, networking, showing perseverance, daring to take initiative, being able to reflect. These are all entrepreneurial skills that can come in handy during your studies. During your studies at our university, you will have the opportunity to further develop these qualities. After all, they can benefit you whilst you're building your career.

How entrepreneurial students contribute to Rotterdam's innovative startup scene

Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship Students is the official entrepreneurship association for students at our university.

Find out how they contribute
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Create positive impact with entrepreneurship during the Erasmus University Challenge

An app that helps reduce smoking and drinking, growing potatoes under water and a home battery to store solar energy. These are all start-ups by students who won prizes during previous years' Erasmus University Challenge. In this annual entrepreneurship competition, students are challenged to further develop their own idea, research, or prototype into real products or business plans.

Do you dare to take up the challenge?
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Erasmus Honours Programme

For talented students, we offer the Erasmus Honours Programme: an interdisciplinary programme in which students are introduced to fascinating and current themes from other programmes, in addition to the regular bachelor's and master's programmes. This challenges students to look beyond the borders of their own field of study.

Discover the programme

These alumni founded their own companies

From business administration to bitterballs: how alumni Cas and Kasper created their successful company

Entrepreneurs Cas and Kasper founded their vegan bitterball company while studying at EUR.

Two friends Cas de Weerd and Kasper Luiten pose for the camera in one of the campus buildings

Yasmina brings cultures together with her passion for food

During her bachelor, student and entrepreneur Yasmina Khababi founded catering company Freshtable.

Entrepreneur Yasmina Khababi poses for the camera on campus Woudestein

EUR alumni Pim and Lorenzo give trainers a second life

Pim and Lorenzo give trainers (that were otherwise disposed) a second life with WEAR.

Pim and Lorenzo of WEAR pose for the camera with their shoe collection displayed in the background

A master's degree and a gold medal

Marloes Keetels won gold with the women's hockey team at the Tokyo Olympics in the summer of 2021 and also completed her master's degree in Business Administration at EUR.

How Marloes combined top sport and studying
Topsporter Marloes Keetels poseert met haar masterdiploma en gouden medaille

Courses where you learn about entrepreneurship

  • Societal Transitions

    Educating transformative leaders for a sustainable future.
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  • Strategic Entrepreneurship

    Master in Strategic Entrepreneurship: Acquiring an in-depth and thorough understanding of business theory and practice: Read more about this programme.
  • Cultural Economics and Entrepreneurship

    Uncover the business of arts and culture in the master specialisation Cultural Economics and Entrepreneurship
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The courses of these faculties discuss entrepreneurship the most

Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)

RSM is known as one of Europe's most international and innovative business schools.

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Erasmus School of Economics (ESE)

ESE offers education focused on economic disciplines and econometrics.

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