GROWTH GARDEN

Be a team player. Our program places great importance on collaboration and a joint change of perspective from problem to solution. During your time with us, you must be prepared to be inspired by and build on others’ ideas.

Leave your comfort zone. This program is all about facing new challenges, creating solutions, and developing your potential. To do that well, you need to be able to leave your comfort zone with ease.

Be curious. The best way for you to get the most out of your time with us is to be curious and let that fuel your creativity. Be prepared to think outside the box.

Bring your entrepreneurial mindset. We welcome those who wish to challenge existing problems, make new ideas tangible, and generate solutions. Be sure to show us your entrepreneurial mindset.

Think sustainably. You should be willing to focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to find future-oriented solutions to existing problems.

[Name] GROWTH GARDEN

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[Description] “GROWTH GARDEN is an intense three-day program for future entrepreneurs, innovators and problem solvers. Our program is aimed at those who do not yet have a concrete idea but are curious and motivated to work on challenges based on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.”

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GROWTH GARDEN is an intense program that, within a three day journey, prepares students and future entrepreneurs for their first endeavours. For example, some then move on to the Gründungsgarage, the leading academic startup-accelerator program based in Graz. Established in February 2021 as part of the Gründungsgarage, GROWTH GARDEN was born out of the desire to leverage the ideas of future entrepreneurs and to help highly motivated students form promising teams for their startup projects. During their three days at GROWTH GARDEN, participants explore the potential challenges of their endeavors within the framework of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, seeding ideas to solve these challenges and establish a first draft on how to grow those ideas. The program helps students to develop a creative mindset, analyze underlying problems, validate hypotheses, and develop solutions. As a bonus, participants from corporates also take part and bring in new perspectives.

On the first day of the program, the Explore Phase, participants dive right into challenges and the contexts that surround them. The second day, the Seed Phase, is dedicated to developing ideas and initial approaches to solutions. During the third day, the Growth Phase, students build and launch a RAT (Riskiest Assumption Test), design a landing page, test their ideas for feasibility, and pitch their solution to a panel of judges. Following the end of the program, students can expect to have arrived at concretely defined ideas with which they can attend Gründungsgarage and capitalize on its wide array of benefits.

GROWTH GARDEN takes place online and is therefore accessible from any location. The workshop is held in German and organized twice a year in March and November.

[Apply to] growthgarden.at