Interdisziplinäre Lehre: Meeting Global Challenges
Risk, Challenge and Opportunity
Successful Entrepreneurship in Times of Climate Crisis
Registration
The registration takes place via RWTH Online and is possible from Sebtember 15th to October 18th. Further information about the registration process can be found in our FAQ.
All students can register for a module. If you have not been assigned a place in the project after the end of the assignment and are still interested in participating, please contact sibel.yildirim[@]ipw.rwth-aachen.de directly.
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Academic Responsibility
Contact Person
LENNART GÖPFERT, B.Sc.
Schedule
Start
05.11.2020
Time
Thursday 6:30-8:00 p.m. Uhr
Place
Online (in person when possible)
Contents
First climate crisis, now Corona! Horror news shape public opinion: strongest ever observed economic slump, supply chains broken off, toilet paper sold out! Are we at the end or is this the beginning of a new era? How do we deal with risk in practice and how do we manage to create a new, better future from the challenges of a crisis?
The first part of the event series focuses on recognizing and understanding of crises and their resulting risks and opportunities. For this, we will take a look at how people and society deal with crises. We try to locate distortions in the perception and limits of human rationality. We try to identify where a deficiency arises and how this opens up options for action.
In the second part we take a look „enterprise“ as a construct. Because this is the strongest tool to bring chance. How do business models work? We try to understand what makes up start-ups that have grown out of the opportunities of a crisis. We focus in particular on the fields of energy, (electric) mobility, bio-economy and their challenges and chances of success due to the climate crisis.
Learning Outcomes
Students can relate their individual subject knowledge and solution methods to global, social challenges. In doing so, they can identify current crises and delimit transformations and signs of change. The complexity of such processes is recognized by the students.
Students understand the possibilities of contributing to the solution of global challenges through entrepreneurial action. They understand the advantages and disadvantages of disruptive innovations and are aware of the ethical significance of their actions. They know the tools of a business plan and SWOT analysis.
They consider possible external effects of a successful start-up, know reasons for the failure of start-ups and understand how to try to avoid them.
Program
The program is divided into two parts. The first part takes place before the Christmas vacations and provides a general insight into the concepts of risk, crisis and climate. The goal is to understand the opportunities and risks that arise from transformations and change processes. At the end, students should be able to develop their own ideas for products and start-ups.
05.11.2020
Introduction: Welcome to the Crisis!
Prof. Dr. Ernst Schmachtenberg
Rector em. RWTH Aachen
12.11.2020
Crisis Management and Crisis Perception: How can you Live there? From Human Risk Perception to Behavior after Environmental Disasters
Prof. Dr. Sabine Schlittmeier
Professor for Psychology with Focus on Auditory Cognition
19.11.2020
Risk – about the Social Handling of Uncertainty
Prof. Dr. Ortwin Renn
Managing Scientific Director, IASS Potsdam
26.11.2020
Example Climate Change: Dealing with a Global Challange
Prof. Dr. Christoph Schneider
Chair of Climate Geography, Geographic Institute Humboldt University Berlin
In the second part, we will discuss the contents in the context of concrete climate crisis-related start-up attempts. The students will receive information about consulting services and start-up assistance at the RWTH. The focus here is on questioning ideas that have been developed previously and discussing the difference between a good idea and a good business plan.
10.12.2020
Entrepreneur Multiplication tables: Market Analysis, SWOT -Analysis, Business Plan
Prof. Dr. Ernst Schmachtenberg
14.01.2021
Successful Founding: How the RWTH Helps!
Prof. Dr. Malte Brettel
Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (WIN)
21.01.2021
Start-up Culture in Germany: Comparing e.Go, Street Scooter and Tesla
Prof. Dr. Ernst Schmachtenberg
28.01.2021
Final Lecture: Student Presentations
Prof. Dr. Ernst Schmachtenberg and students
Zwischenüberschrift
xx.xx.2020
Abweichend
Montag 12:00 Uhr
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Depending on the course of studies, module and examination, credit points can be achieved through participation.
Certificate
Certificate of Participation (0 CP)
Project module (4 CP), to receive, students must write a concept consisting of a business idea and a SWOT-Analyisis as well as present their results in front of the course
