RWTH Aachen University is a research university of technology located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With over 40,000 students enrolled in 130 study programs, it is the largest technical university in Germany
Als Unternehmer und Grunder eines Start-up-Unternehmens benotigen Sie Geld, um ein erfolgreiches Unternehmen aufzubauen. Sie benotigen Kapital, um ein großartiges Team einzustellen, einen Prototyp zu bauen, einen Markt zu erschließen und Ihren Marktanteil zu steigern. Woher bekommen Sie diese Art von Kapital? Ganz einfach: Von Venture Capitalists. Aber wie kommen Sie an dieses Kapital? Knifflige Frage?! Gut, dass es eine Einfuhrung in Venture Capital gibt.In diesem Einfuhrungskurs zu Venture Capital lernen Sie, wie Sie Geld fur Ihr Start-up bekommen. Sie lernen, was Risikokapitalgeber sind und wie sie denken. Sie lernen, was ihre Motive sind, wie sie investieren und was sie von Ihnen erwarten. Haben Sie schon mal von dem Ding namens "Term Sheet" gehort? Ganz egal, ob Sie den Begriff bereits kennen oder nicht, wir erklaren Ihnen, was er bedeutet und was Sie beachten sollten.Unsere Tipps und Tricks und Dos and Don'ts sollten Ihre Arbeit mit Risikokapitalgebern erleichtern.Wir erklaren Ihnen auch, was passiert, wenn ein VC in Ihr Unternehmen ein- und austritt.Dieser Kurs ist wirklich praxisorientiert! Zusatzlich zu den Vortragen von Professor Brettel erhalten Sie Informationen aus erster Hand:Insiderwissen von erfahrenen Unternehmern und Risikokapitalgeber. Sie werden von diesem Kurs in Ihrem taglichen Umgang mit Risikokapitalgebern profitieren.
Learn about the tools and methods that can be employed to understand and identify customer needs as well as the processes that companies can set in place to foster and launch successful technological innovations. A special emphasis will be placed on analyzing how companies can benefit from entrepreneurial thinking to innovate more successfully and on understanding how they can build entire ecosystems around their products and services. The theoretical knowledge will be transferred and applied to a recent, highly successful technological innovation from Germany: The StreetScooter, an electric delivery vehicle of Deutsche Post DHL. This self-paced course consists of eight consecutive parts: Defining and Understanding InnovationThe Customer: Understanding the OpportunityThe Proposition: Creating Superior Customer ValueThe Process: Managing a Promising IdeaThe Mindset: Thinking and Acting Like an EntrepreneurThe Development: Getting the Idea Off the GroundThe Network: Managing the EcosystemReturn on EngineeringThe course will provide you with an in-depth understanding of the process of technology and innovation management. Specifically, the course will familiarize you with state-of-the-art tools, methods, and theories and help you understand how these may be used to solve and organize complex innovation challenges, placing a special emphasis on interdisciplinary thinking at the intersection of management and technology. After completing this course, you will improve your career qualifications as Business Development Manager , Change Manager or Innovation Manager. Professionals from the industries of the Automotive,Information Technology,Finance,Health Care,Telecommunication and the Energy sector have already completed the course.
Being an entrepreneur and creating a startup requires money. This money is essential to building a prototype, hiring a great team, and launching a new product or service. How do you raise money for your startup? Venture capitalists.Introduction to Venture Capital will teach you how to get the money needed to run your startup. You will learn who venture capitalists are, how they think and gain an understanding of their motives, investment strategies, and what they’ll expect from you.In addition to lectures you will get first hand inside knowledge from experienced entrepreneurs and venture capitalists on what it takes to successfully acquire money for your startup!
In the course "Accounting and Management Accounting" you learn the language of the commercial company. To read financial reports, understand and interpret. You can prepare cost accounting decisions, evaluate products and analyze cost variances. So you can look entrepreneurial both in the past and in the future. The content of the course covers the entire fabric a comprehensive introduction to accounting (internal and external accounting), as taught in many universities and colleges in Germany.In connection with the RWTH-MOOC "Introduction to Business Administration" by Prof. Frank Piller it provides an excellent introduction to the economics and gives you the necessary practical knowledge and vocabulary in order to have a say in their studies or profession can - on the basis of a better understanding, what modern management is.Part of "bookkeeping" purposes and outcomes of corporate financial records, measurement of equity and changes in equity, double entry system, treatment of relevant events during the billing period, determination of financial reportsPart of "Management Accounting": problems of cost and revenue calculations, cost type, cost center and cost unit accounting, invoices for the control of assets, decision-oriented bills, budgeting and variance calculationAs a special feature, it is to the event, a game plan, so you can deepen course content playing in your company.What will I learn in this courseAfter successful completion you master the basics of business accounting as a commercial language of business. You know your way around basic questions of accounting from as well as in the field of management accounting. You can set up financial reports, perform the double-entry bookkeeping and costs using the internal accounting documented, plan and monitor. So that you are able to analyze economically sound decisions.What prior knowledge do I need?Participation is possible without any special knowledge.
In recent decades the sustainable conservation of cultural heritage has become a crucial global challenge. In this context, the trend towards largescale urbanization raises questions as to how new development can take place which respects and maintains the intrinsic values and unique qualities which have been handed down from previous generations, particularly within urban areas. The course addresses these themes by providing participants with the skills to define, explore, conserve, utilize and manage cultural heritage. Throughout the course, you will be introduced to various methodologies and thematic approaches relevant to these skills using the City of Aachen as an example. Through case studies drawn from Aachen and beyond, you will explore examples at a range of spatial scales; from landscape and city scale to individual buildings and artifacts. Revision questions and assignments will enable you to consolidate your newly acquired skills and to implement these approaches within the city or town of your choice.
You are interested in the foundations of business? You are thinking about making more out of your research? Then this course might be interesting for you: You will get an introduction to entrepreneurship to learn more about the entrepreneurial mindset and what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur. After having participated in the first part of this course, the introduction to entrepreneurship, you can select your focus in other fields of entrepreneurship according to your interests. All lectures are exclusively given online so you get to choose the content specilization as well the time and speed of this entire course. You will take an exam about each part of the course that you selected and get 1 ECTS for each part. Exercises and example exams will help you to prepare for the final exam. The flexibility in terms of number of ECTS will allow you to integrate this course easily into your studies. No matter which background you have, you are welcome to join because you can choose your focus in this course depending on your background knowledge. We are looking forward to welcoming you to this course.
You are interested in the foundations of business? You are thinking about making more out of your research? Then this course might be interesting for you: You will get an introduction to entrepreneurship to learn more about the entrepreneurial mindset and what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur. After having participated in the first part of this course, the introduction to entrepreneurship, you can select your focus in other fields of entrepreneurship according to your interests. All lectures are exclusively given online so you get to choose the content specilization as well the time and speed of this entire course. You will take an exam about each part of the course that you selected and get 1 ECTS for each part. Exercises and example exams will help you to prepare for the final exam. The flexibility in terms of number of ECTS will allow you to integrate this course easily into your studies. No matter which background you have, you are welcome to join because you can choose your focus in this course depending on your background knowledge. We are looking forward to welcoming you to this course.
Religion gilt als Privatsache und ist trotzdem an vielen Stellen in der Öffentlichkeit sichtbar. Religiöse Institutionen treten als gesellschaftliche Akteure auf, die ihre Anliegen kommunizieren müssen.Der Kurs blickt auf praktische Aspekte religiösen Lebens und der Kirche als religiöser Institution, die in verschiedenen Hinsichten und Formen kommunizieren muss. Einen zentralen Punkt bildet der Bereich Bildung; im Bereich der religiösen Bildung stellt sich die Frage, wie Vermittlung unter den aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen denkbar ist. Sie hat sowohl den Ansprüchen der Tradition und dem Kern der Religion zu genügen sowie in die veränderten Kontexte passen.Zudem bedarf jede Institution verschiedenen Sprachformen. Im zweiten Kursteil werden Beispiele für praktische Fragestellungen für die Kirche und ihre Kommunikationsweisen, die immer mit bestimmten Anforderungen an die Institution zusammenhängen, beleuchtet.
This course focuses on sustainable development and global changes - vital issues for humanity. There is specific attention paid to the challenges in developed and developing countries and their transition from unsustainable to sustainable practices. The course is an introduction to sustainable development and its relation to the Water-Energy-Food Nexus. This connection between three critical resources offers a conceptual tool for achieving sustainable development. It has become increasingly important to understand the interdependencies and interrelationships between the three resources. Finding new approaches to manage the nexus could contribute significantly to achieving the Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Topics of this course include:Finding new ways to face water challenges and opportunitiesRenewable energiesEnergy efficiencySustainable agricultureClimate changeRethinking established ways of resources managementTypes of virtual waterThe interrelationship between local and global challenges and economic as well as population growthThe role of technology in the WEF nexus as well as managing the nexus at local, regional, and global levels.This course gives you a solid understanding of the connection between water, energy, and food, and enables you to manage resources in a sustainable and effective way. You’ll build skills and knowledge that are key for sustainable development into the future.
You are interested in the foundations of business? You are thinking about making more out of your research? Then this course might be interesting for you: You will get an introduction to entrepreneurship to learn more about the entrepreneurial mindset and what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur. After having participated in the first part of this course, the introduction to entrepreneurship, you can select your focus in other fields of entrepreneurship according to your interests. All lectures are exclusively given online so you get to choose the content specilization as well the time and speed of this entire course. You will take an exam about each part of the course that you selected and get 1 ECTS for each part. Exercises and example exams will help you to prepare for the final exam. The flexibility in terms of number of ECTS will allow you to integrate this course easily into your studies. No matter which background you have, you are welcome to join because you can choose your focus in this course depending on your background knowledge. We are looking forward to welcoming you to this course.
Dieser Kurs bietet Ihnen einen Einstieg in die Materie der Stereostatik. In allen Disziplinen der Ingenieurwissenschaften ist das mechanische Grundverständnis elementar für ein erfolgreiches Studium. Basierend auf mathematischen Grundlagen der Vektorrechnung, lernen Sie den Umgang mit Kräftesystemen. Erfahrene Dozenten lehren Sie Ihr Wissen anzuwenden auf:Die Analyse von Balkensystemen mit äußeren Kräften und MomentenDie Grundprinzipien ebener FachwerkeReibungsbehaftete SystemeSeilstatikPrinzipien der virtuellen Arbeit
You are interested in the foundations of business? You are thinking about making more out of your research? Then this course might be interesting for you: You will get an introduction to entrepreneurship to learn more about the entrepreneurial mindset and what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur. After having participated in the first part of this course, the introduction to entrepreneurship, you can select your focus in other fields of entrepreneurship according to your interests. All lectures are exclusively given online so you get to choose the content specilization as well the time and speed of this entire course. You will take an exam about each part of the course that you selected and get 1 ECTS for each part. Exercises and example exams will help you to prepare for the final exam. The flexibility in terms of number of ECTS will allow you to integrate this course easily into your studies. No matter which background you have, you are welcome to join because you can choose your focus in this course depending on your background knowledge. We are looking forward to welcoming you to this course.
Success or failure? The future of your organization today depends on how well it can adapt to and leverage disruptive technologies and business models.Take the next step in your career and add business knowledge to your technical skills to reach a leading position in your company using an entrepreneurial mindset.This MicroMasters program enables you to do just that – to deal with disruptive change in the marketplace and take advantage of the shifting landscape to benefit your organization.By combining elements from innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategy research, this program will show you how to use a standard toolkit to judge and assess real life cases and learn using a practice-oriented approach.You will be guided through the innovation process from ideation to implementation, will explore the typical creation process of a new venture and will learn more about the differences between entrepreneurial and managerial thought patterns. As a final part of the program, you’ll learn strategic management concepts – so your organization can be ahead of the curve and not be victim to disruption. To succeed in the program, you need to have basic mathematical knowledge and a general interest in business to succeed in the program. The program is designed by RWTH Aachen University, one of the leading universities in Germany working at the intersection of technology and management. You’ll learn from leading entrepreneurship and innovation experts such as Malte Brettel, who was named the #1 Professor of Entrepreneurship in Germany.
All of today’s well-known companies got started the exact same way: as an idea within someone’s head. While the idea itself is an important prerequisite for success, it was rather what these individuals did with it that enabled them to become the success that they are today. You can learn to think and act like these innovators too. This course helps you to turn your idea into a real-life business and make it a commercial success: Find and assess your ideaWhat does it actually mean to be entrepreneur?Are entrepreneurs born or made?How to actually find an idea to start a business?Turn your idea into actionHow to deal with uncertainty?What are the core questions that I have to answer to make my idea successful?How to assemble the right team of people to help me get my idea off the ground?Set yourself up to succeedHow to know what my customers really expect?Do I have to stick to my original idea no matter what?What are typical traps into which entrepreneurs fall at the start of their career?We will walk you through real-life examples of the entrepreneurial process to help you understand how it differs from that of established companies and how you can apply it for your own purposes. A series of homework exercises, tutorials and case studies will enable you to develop a perspective that goes beyond the theoretical scope to prepare you for actual situations. By doing so, this course will not only give you specific tools to start you own venture but also to transfer the benefits of entrepreneurial thinking to a corporate context, thereby preparing you for leading positions in Business Development , Strategy and General Management and of course as an Entrepreneur. Learners from the industries of Business Development and Entrepreneurs from all over the world already completed the course. This course is part of the "Managing Technology & Innovation: How to deal with disruptive change" MicroMasters program designed to teach the critical skills needed to be successful in this exciting field. In order to qualify for the MicroMasters Credential, you will need to earn a Verified Certificate in each of the six courses of the RWTHx MicroMasters program.
Do you want happy, healthy, and productive employees? Do you want to learn how you can manage psychosocial risks in your company? This is the course for you! Did you know that up to 50% of workers in the EU report to suffer from work-related stress? And about 80% of managers are concerned about psychosocial risks in their organisation. Moreover, it is actually mandated by EU law for employers to ensure the safety and health of their employees. However, only 30% of organisations have procedures in place to deal with psychosocial risks. In PsyHealth WorXs! you will learn how to conduct a psychosocial risk assessment, so you can help change these numbers! We will guide you through the 7 steps of psychosocial risk assessment, present you the latest research findings, share insights and tips from practitioners, and skills to adapt the lessons learned to your specific context. Join us in making the workplace a more productive, healthier, and better place!