We educate young people who want to shape a sustainable future. We achieve this through application-oriented studies, joint interdisciplinary research on current topics, and by fostering an entrepreneurial mindset. This approach enables our students to find solutions to complex problems, generate ideas, and develop business models. The E-School, is companion, initiator, cheerleader, and supporter for all students, scientists, and employees of the Hasso Plattner Institute.

We prepare our students for a successful future. This approach involves practical studies and state-of-the-art research on current topics as well as the preparation for starting one's own venture and the development of an entrepreneurial mindset for careers within established companies. The HPI E-School supports students in entrepreneurial thinking and acting to prepare them for the challenges of the future.

The HPI takes an integrated approach to promote entrepreneurial thinking and acting. In teaching, research, and in supporting start-up projects, the focus is on the various facets of digital entrepreneurship. The E-School, headed by Dr. Frank Pawlitschek, support all those at the HPI interested in entrepreneurship and new venture creation with various perspectives in a joint approach. Please find below an overview of the advisory services and research on entrepreneurship at HPI.

We educate, coach and support HPI students, alumni, and staff on the path to founding and subsequently building up their own company.

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We offer courses that impart entrepreneurial thinking and acting. In addition to teaching technical, methodological, and social skills, the collaboratively structured courses are designed to address the specific challenges of founding a company in the IT sector. Aspiring IT Systems Engineers receive foundational knowledge in entrepreneurship as well as technology and innovation management to start a competitive venture with their business idea. The methodological skills taught are instruments from data science, business modeling, design thinking, lean start-up, and strategic foresight. The course contents and team projects focus on current social, economic, and policy issues.

• Courses E-School

The E-School and the Startup Ecosystem offer a variety of services and formats to promote startups from the institute environment and to support teams in founding and building a company:

• The E-School initiates formats for startup-oriented idea generation, offers numerous practical teaching formats, and provides support from the development of the first idea to the kick-off of the startup. 
• Subsequently, the startups are supported to grow their business. 
• The E-Space is the place where everyone and everything comes together. This is the place to meet founders:inside, exchange ideas, start a business or just have a good coffee.

The result of this unique infrastructure to support the start-up activities of students and alumni at HPI has contributed in part to the fact that more than 100 start-ups have now emerged from the institute's environment. Most of them reside in the Berlin/Potsdam region. Together with renowned partners, the HPI makes a substantial contribution to the promotion of young start-ups in the IT sector.