Practice Immersion

Explore your opportunities:

• Vali Ideation Bootcamp

  In collaboration with Vali, the Ideation Bootcamp enables you to discuss trends, technologies and pressing issues facing our world and develop initial solutions, together with corporates, startups, non-governmental organizations, and other like-minded entrepreneurial talents. 

  Vali serves as the platform for the ESMT community to meet, develop ideas and solutions, find collaborators, and acquire resources to develop and scale new ventures.

  The Vali community consists of a broad range of individuals and organizations, including students, alumni, faculty, serial entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists, and subject matter experts.

   

  

• Summer Entrepreneurship Program or Internship

  The Summer Entrepreneurship Program (SEP) helps entrepreneurial talents, like yourself, to develop and elaborate your own startup ideas: from finding co-founders, identifying trends, problems and building solutions, to pitching in front of Venture Capitalists (VCs) and business angels. The teams benefit from expert mentoring, access to the ESMT and Vali Berlin network, a structured program of workshops by entrepreneurs and thought leaders from Berlin's startup scene. 

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  Alternatively, you can choose to pursue an internship at a company's innovation or intrapreneurship unit. Between April and September, the internship will have a minimum duration of 12 weeks, but you may choose to do a longer internship of up to six months. ESMT's Career Services team helps you to find the right opportunity and prepare professional and convincing applications for your chosen positions. Most students find their internships through a combination of engagement with ESMT's partners and open applications to companies of their choice. 

  Internship examples inlcude:

  • Daimler working as a Venture Architect

  • EY working in Consulting

  • Siemens Energy working as a Strategy and Business Development Intern

  • Kearney working as a Summer Trainee

  • Tesla working in Business Operations

  • Bain & Company working as an Associate Consultant Intern

• NEXT program, Corporate Entrepreneurship Program or Corporate Innovation Project

  The NEXT program supports nascent ventures from (SEP) to reach the next level in six different areas: product-market fit, human capital, fundraising, legal, administrative, and tax issues. 

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  Within the Corporate Entrepreneurship Program (CEP), you will elaborate and develop venture ideas together with corporates, applying entrepreneurial thinking and techniques within a corporate framework. 

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  For the Corporate Innovation Project (CIP), you will join an international consulting team project delivered for a corporate partner who has identified an innovation opportunity. In collaboration with ESMT coaches and company project partners, you will develop a set of recommendations to exploit that innovation opportunity, drawing on the full suite of capabilities acquired during the first 12 months of your master program.