Overall format:

Teams of 6 consultants (doctoral students from all disciplines) support start-ups over 7 days spread over 2 weeks. They work in project mode with milestones, a deadline and deliverables to be returned to their start-up sponsor. They study a problem encountered by entrepreneurs (Development of a strategy towards a new market; Development of a new service/product using the company's technology) and propose a solution.

Unfolded:

From the first day, doctoral students will meet their start-up client. They will have to analyze and understand the problem and formulate a program in order to provide the elements of response. In autonomy, they will organize themselves in project mode.

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Throughout the 7 days, doctoral students work with the support of experts (often doctors themselves) who will give short lectures and then answer their questions to allow them to move forward with their project. These will cover:

·  project management,

·  Economic intelligence,

·  marketing studies,

·  business model,

·  financial & budgetary aspects,

·  communication.  

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In addition, a career coach will provide individual support to doctoral students to help them enhance the skills developed and identify jobs that suit them.

Different testimonials from doctors, project managers in different sectors and professional environments also punctuate the seven days, to inspire and develop the network of doctoral students.

On the 7th day, the teams submit a full report and present the results to the start-up and to a jury of experts.

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Benefits:

Through this training, we come across benefits for doctoral students: Understanding the culture, operation & challenges of innovative companies, Acquiring skills in project management and working in a multidisciplinary team, but also developing a network in the entrepreneurial ecosystem

We also want to allow young start-ups to better understand the skills and potential of doctoral students through a concrete project: Outsource a development project that is not possible to carry out with internal resources and thus benefit from proposals innovative on their development project.