Minor Entrepreneurship: Boost Your Business is for every student who already runs a business. This minor is a joint program by NHL Stenden and Hanze University of Applied Sciences, but students from all universities of applied sciences are more than welcome to join. Our vision is clear: entrepreneurship cannot be learned from a book. Entrepreneurial students need space to take action, experiment, fail, and grow. That space is often missing in regular programmes and minors, so we create it.

We offer an environment:
• where your business is central;
• where you grow as an entrepreneur, both personally and professionally;
• and where we don’t teach about entrepreneurship, but teach you to be an entrepreneur.

What’s in it for you?
• You work with full focus on your own business not by studying theory, but by building your idea, your company and your personal growth. Everything you learn is applied immediately.
• Coaching from entrepreneurs who are already where you want to be.
• You grow not only as an entrepreneur, but also as a person, gaining confidence, making sharper choices, and gaining clarity about what you want and what you stand for.
• You earn credits while your business grows, learn by doing, and build a strong professional network.

Since 2013, more than 250 alumni and 75 partners and coaches have been part of this programme. The minor is offered in both semesters and is also available in English.

Chances are high that if you meet an entrepreneur in the north of the Netherlands, they are a former Boost Your Business participant.

This minor is offered by the Entrepreneurship & Retail Management programme and can also be followed in Dutch.
Want to know more? Visit www.minorboostyourbusiness.nl or email us at info@minorboostyourbusiness.nl.

Minor content

In an intensive five-month growth programme, you are continuously challenged to critically reflect on your business and on yourself. You work together with other driven student entrepreneurs, receive coaching from successful entrepreneurs and learn directly from professionals in the field.

This minor is offered by Entrepreneurship & Retail Management.

Structure of the minor

Content:
 

• company visits
• collaborations with external partners such as banks, accounting firms and law firms
• guest lectures by experienced entrepreneurs

Target group

This minor is suitable for students who have already started their own business. We conduct an intake interview with each student. Apply now via: https://minorboostyourbusiness.nl/aanmelden/ or send an email to: info@boostyourbusiness.nl. 

The minor is a collaboration between NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences in Leeuwarden and Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen.

Classes are partly held in Leeuwarden and partly in Groningen. You attend classes two days a week. On the other days you work on and in your own business.

Examination: portfolio assessment