7.6 Master’s in Energy for Smart Cities introduces a redesigned I&E Journey with u nternehmerT u M

EIT InnoEnergy Master’s in Energy for Smart Cities students joining the programme in 2023 will find exciting, newly-designed modules added to the Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) Journey - a parallel track followed during their master’s programme. It will also be supported by UnternehmerTUM (UTUM), the Munich-based non-profit organisation, and one of the leading centres for innovation and business creation in Europe.

This highly successful and powerful MBA-level training includes courses and activities that take students to select European innovation hotspots and provides them with crucial tools and skills to prepare and inspire them to bring their ideas to the energy sector. The students take a tailor-made journey during a face-to-face Winter School in a European city and a face-to-face Summer School in Munich, with an online spring seminar in between.

During the Summer School

‘Innovator’s Journey’ workshop in Munich, the students will participate in a blended training programme designed by The Academy for Innovators at UTUM. Having access to its academy will be an amazing and stimulating experience for the EIT InnoEnergy students and allow them to connect to UTUM’s vast innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem –and being right in the mix with these entrepreneurs as they test out new ideas and launch their businesses. That atmosphere is positively infectious.

AlBERTo GonZAlEZ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Manager of EIT InnoEnergy

Young engineers, entrepreneurs and future business leaders need a mindset that ‘everything is possible’. This mindset will keep evolving existing technologies – and creating new ideas that will shape the future of sustainable energy.

7.7 From master’s student to company delegate at TBB.2022 before graduation!

Emet Zeitz, a recent graduate of the Master’s in Sustainable Energy Systems, attended The Business Booster (TBB) in September 2022 in Lisbon from a new angle… as a company delegate! The EIT InnoEnergy flagship event brought together high-level keynote speakers and 1,200 industry delegates, including over 150 EIT InnoEnergy-supported innovations.

Emet’s journey began with an internship at Net Zero Insights (a company that operates the most comprehensive climate tech start-up database) during his studies at EIT InnoEnergy Master School. The internship turned into a full-time job before he had even graduated – giving him a clear career fast-track. He then attended The Business Booster as a business developer, representing the company at Europe’s most relevant energy industry event.

Emet’s career at Net Zero Insights has given him precisely the type of position he was looking for. “They were offering an internship to be a climate tech analyst, and during the interview process we found a great topic to write a master thesis on, so I took the internship. However, after a few months as an intern, I was offered a full-time position

– more focused on growing the business for this earlystage start-up – a role I was eager to take. After all, one of my goals when entering the EIT InnoEnergy programme was to find an opportunity like this – work that I enjoy and can be passionate about every day!”

E MET Z EITZ EIT InnoEnergy Master School alumnus in Sustainable Energy Systems

EIT InnoEnergy’s reputation attracts start-ups, investors, policymakers, and consultants from all over the world to TBB and creates a great space to connect with many people in a short time. I used the conference B2B meeting tool to schedule 27 successful meetings with different investors across two days.