Dates and Teaching Modalities
8-12 September: 3 online synchronous sessions
15-19 September: onsite sessions
22-26 September: 1 online synchronous session
Learning methods and related experiences
• Learning-by-doing approach with a strong practice-oriented and interactive component
• Fundamentals of entrepreneurship: online tools to create Business Model Canvas, pitch
decks, and business plans
• Teamwork to develop a space start-up project during the course
• Lecturing and mentoring by, among others, experts from the University of Rome Tor
Vergata (Start Cup Lazio network, Interdepartmental Research Center on
TeleInFrastructures – CTIF Italy, and the Scientific Observatory on Women
Entrepreneurship -OSIF), the AGH University of Krakow, the Luleå University of
Technology, and the Toulouse Business School
• Final presentation (group pitch) during the last day of the school
• Visits, among others, to ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) and to the Rome Future Week
Provisional list of topics
• Introduction to Space Technology
• The Evolution of the Space Industry: From State Monopoly to the New Space Economy
• Typologies of Orbits and their Commercial Uses
• High Growth Space Start-Ups and their Evaluation
• Governing Space Projects: Strategies to Mitigate Biases and Enhance Decision Making
• Space Tourism: Opportunities and Challenges
• Fostering Women Entrepreneurship in the Space Economy
• CreativAstroPreneurship: Creativity as a Success Lever for Space Entrepreneurship
• Artificial Intelligence and the Space Economy
• Space International Law: The New Challenges
• Spatial Systems: Threats and Weaknesses
How to apply
Submit your application by including:
• CV: describe your relevant experience and state clearly the degree program you are enrolled in (specifying the level: Bachelor, Master or PhD and the name of the program).
• Motivation letter: explaining your interest in the Startech programme, what skills and qualities you would contribute to an innovation team, and mention if you’ve previously participated in any UNIVERSEH events or activities.
