Learning & Development
Showcasing insights and sharing project outcomes, either our own or those co-created with our partners, is a key activity for the WAVE Lab.
Driven by our research and consulting work, we design and deliver learning environments that enable individuals and organizations thrive in a complex business world characterized by constant change.
Our portfolio includes standalone offerings (the W Summer Academy), joint learning & development programs, and bespoke courses/programs for an organization's specific needs (e.g. Business Model Innovation Bootcamp).
The W Summer Academy
Bespoke programs
W Online Edu
WAVE Lab
as a knowledge transfer hub on growth transformation
Tools & methodologies
(case studies, role playing, busines games)
Projects & partnerships
ACTION LEARNING
Informed by our research & consulting activities
Blended learning
Focused on skills, teams and mentoring
The W Summer Academy
The goal of the annual W Summer Academy is to help university students experience what it takes to turn ideas into startups, run by great teams. Participants are immersed in a comprehensive training program, which is based on insights uncovered during a WAVE Lab's international research project on entrepreneurship (CREA project).
The Academy is enhanced by the international profile of all participants (students, instructors, mentors, guest experts, workshop leaders), who create a multi-cultural, cross-disciplined learning environment. Past participants joined us from as far as Asia (China, Vietnam), the Americas (Brazil), and Europe (Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, Netherlands), bringing on board a wealth of knowledge and experiences from various disciplines (Product Design, Law, Bioinformatics, Business Administration, Computer Science, Financial Engineering, Social Sciences).
Design thinking Entrepreneurship
IT
From ideation
to business modeling to prototyping
Mentoring, workshops, guest experts
Post-Academy support as
venture
consultants
Joint program: MSc in Tourism Entrepreneurship
In late 2015, the University of the Aegean and the Technological Education Institute (TEI) of Athens launched a joint MSc degree in Tourism Entrepreneurship. It is the first program of its kind in Greece and one of the few post-graduate programs in Europe that focus on the entrepreneurial side of tourism.
WAVE Lab members were core members of the founding faculty team and are actively involved in the program's management and operations (including course development and teaching).