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Tools for developing your business idea and business!

Educational institute coaching is entrepreneurship coaching intended for the students, researchers and personnel of the Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences, University of Jyväskylä and the GRADIA Jyväskylä Educational Consortium. The services are available to 47,200 students and researchers and 4,400 teachers.

Develop your business through our coaching!

Idea to Business -course

(5 study credits / 15 competence points)

From Idea to Business -course offers you the chance to test and develop your own business idea towards establishing a company, with the support of the teacher coaches. Our coaches will help you recognise the potential in your idea and develop your idea and yourself towards establishing your own company.

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Business Coaching

(8 study credits / 15 competence points)

Business Coaching is a year-long personal training for established companies. You will be able to develop your company’s business and yourself under the instruction of a business coach, focusing on the matters that are challenging to you.

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Digital training

We have built a digital platform for the students, researchers and staff of JAMK, JYU and Gradia, which provides them with new information on entrepreneurship as well as with videos and tools.

To be opened in autumn 2020

Do you have any questions about the Idea to Business -course or Business Coaching? The contact persons of our educational institutes are here for you!

JAMK

Suvi Salminen

Core competence:

Talent for listening, being present and walking alongside others

Superpower:

Positivity

Suvi is strong in creating a passion for entrepreneurship. Suvi knows how to help students identify their strengths and find their dreams. Her background is in occupational therapy and she has worked both as an employee and as an entrepreneur. Through these experiences, Suvi has gained her internal and external entrepreneurial skills, sometimes learning things the hard way. At JAMK, Suvi promotes the working life skills and entrepreneurial capabilities among students, and her motto is “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” (George Bernard Shaw)

Suvi Salminen

lecturer and entrepreneurship coordinator, the School of Health and Social Studies JAMK

suvi.salminen@jamk.fi

JYU

Mari Suoranta

research professor, University of Jyväskylä

mari.suoranta@jyu.fi

GRADIA

Petrikki Tukiainen

petrikki.tukiainen@gradia.fi

The educational institute coaching and events run by the Startup Factory are a part of the EduFutura strategy.

EduFutura Jyväskylä is a education, research and development community organised by the Gradia Jyväskylä Educational Consortium, Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences and the University of Jyväskylä. EduFutura develops the learning solutions of the future. We create diverse opportunities for students for flexible study paths and cross-studies.