Pre-incubator – Starting your own Business?
Turbiini Pre-incubator program in English
From Idea to First Revenue? Turbiini pre-incubator program in English launching at the start of next year.
Register for the Entrepreneurship course: Metropolia Turbiini – Starting your own business 10 ETCS – LX00FD17-3001
To highlight, you can participate with or without a business idea. Turbiini helps business ideas transform into teams, startups, and growth companies. Our pre-incubator programs for students are running twice a year on three campuses – in Myllypuro, Myyrmäki, and Arabia. Spring 2023 we are launching our very first joint pre-incubator program in English.
If you are interested in entrepreneurship or gaining entrepreneurial skills, the pre-incubator program is for you.
The course encourages entrepreneurship and offers students the opportunity to come up with ideas and develop their business ideas together with students and experts in various fields. In addition, personal sparring and networking are offered while knowledge and skills related to entrepreneurship are accumulated.
Participating in “Metropolia Turbiini – Starting Your Own Business” pre-incubator course can replace the mandatory Innovation Project (10 ECTS). However, this should be agreed with the Head of your degree programme.
TESTIMONIAL FROM PREVIOUS COURSE

”The information provided was very useful for the growth of my business. Some of the information wasn’t even something I considered therefore, the course was very functional.”
Metropolia Turbiini - Starting your own business 10 ETCS - LX00FD17-3001
When:
19.1. – 19.5.2023
Where:
At Myyrmäki Campus, will be updated
Registration:
14.11.2022 – 13.1.2023
Find more detailed information about the course in Metropolia’s Study Guide in the Elective Studies section when registration opens. Students from other universities must register via Open UAS.
For whom:
Bachelor’s / Master’s degree / Open UAS.
This elective course is open to all Metropolia bachelor’s and master’s degree students who are interested in entrepreneurship. While located on the Myyrmäki campus, students from any Metropolia campus (including open university students) are warmly welcome. No matter if you study business, special engineering field, ICT, healthcare or wellbeing, media, design, or culture – enroll in this course to learn entrepreneurial skills and mindset.
What else:
Workshops and contact lessons at Myyrmäki campus and/or online seminars once a week for 3 hours. Thursdays at 13 – 16 during weeks 3 – 18 (not weeks 8 and 14)
Additionally, individual guidance and tutoring to students and their teams when working on own business ideas and business plans.
Program (click here)
Thursday 19.1. at 13-16:
- Orientation to the course; Entrepreneurship and its business environment
Thursday 26.1. at 13-16:
- Entrepreneurial mindset and myths workshop on campus
Thursday 2.2. at 13-16:
- Different tools and methodologies for planning entrepreneurship
Thursday 9.2. at 13-16:
- Service Design and Product Development
Thursday 16.2. at 13-16:
- Customer research methods – how to find customer needs
Week 8:
- Individual work
Thursday 2.3. at 13-16:
- Creation of Business Plan
Thursday 9.3. at 13-16:
- Prototyping and Testing the business idea – workshop
Thursday 16.3. at 13-16:
- Types of companies, Laws and Legislation, GDPR issues and Insurances
Thursday 23.3. at 13-16:
- Counselling services for entrepreneurs and support networks and tools
Thursday 30.3. at 13-16:
- Cost calculations and pricing, Main financial KPI´s and basics of corporate funding
Week 14:
- Individual work
Thursday 13.4. at 13-16:
- Sustainable development in business
Thursday 20.4. at 13-16:
- Pitching training session – How to pitch your business idea?
Thursday 27.4. at 13-16:
- Marketing – customer acquisition
Thursday 4.5. at 13-16:
- FINALE – Pitching session
If you’re a student in Metropolia: Register via Peppi or OMA. Find more detailed information about the course in Metropolia’s Study Guide in the Elective Studies section: Metropolia Turbiini Starting your own Business (10 ECTS) – LX00FD17-3001
Students from other universities must register via Open UAS. Participation is free of charge.
Not interested in the course? Contact us and we are happy to tell you more about our services:
TEAM

Kaija Haapasalo
Coordinator, Myyrmäki
kaija.haapasalo@metropolia.fi

Pamela Spokes
Service Designer
pamela.spokes@metropolia.fi

Hannes Jesar
Project Manager, Turbiini

Erkki Alanen
Lecturer
erkki.alanen@metropolia.fi