We empower individuals to build impactful ventures
EWOR is a school conceived by Europe’s top professors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders. We educate and mentor young innovators to launch successful businesses.
EWOR is a school conceived by Europe’s top professors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders. We educate and mentor young innovators to launch successful businesses.
EWOR is a school conceived by Europe’s top professors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders. We educate and mentor young innovators to launch successful businesses.
EWOR is a school conceived by Europe’s top professors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders. We educate and mentor young innovators to launch successful businesses.
Founder of two unicorn companies. Inventor of over 100 patents
Serial entrepreneur, investor and expert on customer experience and digital marketing
President and CEO of The Paradigm Forum GmbH. Harvard and Wilson Center Fellow
Founded the M.S. in Strategic International Management at University of St. Gallen
Former managing director at IDEO and founder of ProGlove
Former CEO and current owner of PERI GmbH, world leader in scaffolding supplies
Digital tech transformation strategist and founder of P&L Digital Edge Limited
Professor, University of Cambridge; entreprenuer
Founder of three profitable businesses and named Top Talent Under 25 in the EU.
Raised over 10M USD with his venture Goodwall
Founder of more than 7 companies
Having started the fellowship in 2020, all of our alumni and fellows still run successful ventures.
Unicorn founders, global CEOs, world-class coaches and the world’s most accomplished academics have forged and supported this program.
EWOR stands for impact-first. We empower individuals to create impact first with financial success as an aftereffect.
From business modelling and venture financing to content marketing and no-code prototyping – we cover all the skills a 21st century entrepreneur needs to have.
Having started the fellowship in 2020, all of our alumni and fellows still run successful ventures.
Unicorn founders, global CEOs, world-class coaches and the world’s most accomplished academics have forged and supported this program.
EWOR stands for impact-first. We empower individuals to create impact first with financial success as an aftereffect.
From business modelling and venture financing to content marketing and no-code prototyping – we cover all the skills a 21st century entrepreneur needs to have.
We do not believe in fixed curricula. Instead, we believe in the complexity and interdependency of learned content. EWOR individuals thrive because they are taught what is relevant to them while they are solving real-world problems.
Rather than learning pre-defined, abstract concepts and applying them months later, EWOR individuals are presented with real-world challenges and then given the tools to solve them. Our challenge-driven learning system fosters problem-focused practical attitudes as well as autodidactic learning.
EWOR fosters deep reflection between individuals participating in our programs. We acknowledge that most content is understood once applied. EWOR ndividuals are invited to question their work; reflecting critically on their approaches, ventures, and decisions. Our platform is built to encourage debates and promote peer-to-peer learning.
We offer a variety of courses through our platform that help individuals with diverse learning styles grow their tech, management and entreprenuerial skills. All of our content is based on blended learning principles and our own unique challenge driven approach.
We offer a variety of courses through our platform that help individuals with diverse learning styles grow their tech, management and entreprenuerial skills. All of our content is based on blended learning principles and our own unique challenge driven approach.
The fellowship program follows our education cycle, which contains six modules.
The world’s top innovators will teach you the art of discovering true customer needs, may it be through clustering techniques, specific observation tools, or drill-down techniques. You will find these tools not only helpful to achieve product-market fit quickly, but also to constantly innovate and amend your product offerings.
Creativity follows different rules than analytical thinking. We will teach you how to systematically make use of your creativity, brainstorm ideas, synthesise them and derive powerful value propositions.
Before you build a product around your value proposition, there are thousands of techniques and tricks to test the demand and market for your products. You will learn how to build websites, run micro-marketing campaigns and leverage analytics tools to validate your ideas quickly.
You’ll learn how to co-create ventures with your customers, and launch prototypes quickly. Especially for digital prototypes, we will provide you with an arsenal of no-code prototyping tools helping you to build products without writing any line of code. Especially ambitious individuals can take our courses on coding, too.
Learn how to constantly improve your product, by thinking customer-centric and launching new features and product improvements fast. You will learn how to navigate and manage your team effectively and become an entrepreneurial leader.
You will learn about term sheet negotiations with investors, investor networks, pitching, sales and leading growing ventures. As your organisation grows, you will have to focus on making few right decisions instead of making many mediocre decisions. We’ll teach you how.
Although Europe has a sound political system and stable corporate jobs that yield decent pay, entrepreneurship is not the continent’s highest priority. Thus, Europe can seldom tell entrepreneurial stories like those of Facebook, Uber, and Apple. Entrepreneurship Without Risk (EWOR) aims to remove roadblocks and provide vital resources to enable Europe’s innovators to achieve their potential.
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Alexander is the Owner of former Managing Director of 10.000 employees firm PERI. PERI is one of the world’s leading suppliers of formwork and scaffolding systems, civil engineering solutions and leading 3D construction printing supplier. Since its foundation in 1969, the PERI headquarters in Weißenhorn, Germany, has been steering the fortunes of the globally operating family business.
Björn Schmidtke is the founder of “Penguin”. Established 2015 in Switzerland, Penguin is a digital agency operating at the intersection of AI (artificial intelligence) and web development. Shortly after, Penguin has secured clients across 5 continents.
In 2016, Penguin began to teach their principles and later created Penguin Academy as a separate business. While running programs for top-executives in Switzerland, they established a 501(c)3 non-profit branch in Paraguay that provides those in need the opportunity to access similar education.
Björn is engaged in consulting internationally leading education institutes (Boarding Schools, Business Schools, and Universities) about technology, the future of education and 21st-century skills – esp. on how to create curricula that foster a 21st-century mindset.
His work is focused on creating an environment where people can grow their potential, and most importantly, be happy.
