Entrepreneurship

• Budding entrepreneur?
• Looking to assess the viability of a business project?
• Keen to know how to create a subsidiary within an existing group?

... the Entrepreneurship option is designed for you!

Objectives

• Develop skills and behaviour conducive to professional success
• Understand the rudiments of management
• Acquire various skills related to business creation (marketing, negotiation, management, legal aspects, strategy, etc.).

Contribution to sustainable development goals

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Double Degree Programme

• Selected students spend two years studying courses from the engineering programme at Centrale Nantes. This usually includes one year of the common-core engineering curriculum followed by one year of specialisation. 
• Double degree students are typically accepted after successfully completing two or three years of higher education in their home institution.
• Learn more about the double degree programme

Exchange Study Programme

• Selected students have the opportunity to spend a semester or a year of their studies at Centrale Nantes to obtain ECTS credits. 
• Applicants must be fluent in French (B2 level recommended) and have a Master 1st year university level with the equivalent of 240 ECTS credits (in the European system, or equivalent).
• Learn more about the Exchange Study programme

• Start-up methodology
• Strategy
• Finance plan
• Legal specificities of the development of small or medium-sized companies
• Taking over a company
• Leadership Management
• Marketing, Creativity, Negotiation
• Entrepreneurial Project: test out a project from idea to launch and presentation.

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Teaching Methods and Assessment

Conferences and meetings are organized with entrepreneurs to discuss various themes (industrial property, technology watch, assistance, entrepreneurial profile, company takeover). The teaching methods include lectures, practical exercises, role-playing, case studies.

Students are assessed throughout the option with individual and group evaluations.