IST College’s aim is the development of an environment which supports, encourages and cultivates modern entrepreneurship, promotes and produces new, innovative ideas which will contribute towards the improvement of our country’s growth, the promotion of innovation, spread of an entrepreneurial mentality and increase of employability. The aforementioned aim is achieved via programmes of studies corresponding to the needs of the Greek market, via continuous enrichment of courses in collaboration with businesses, but also via a plethora of activities, such as the organization of a series of events for students (seminars, talks, conferences, educational visits, competitions, etc.)
Education is the key to a country’s growth, the creation of new jobs, the enhancement of competitiveness. As such, education ought to be at the forefront, organizing initiatives which contribute towards such a direction.
IST College organizes a series of activities for students in collaboration with businesses, whereby students have the opportunity to experience first-hand how businesses operate.
The following activities take place:
- IST College runs a series of lectures and seminars called “Business Voice” aiming at bringing students closer to the business world.
- IST College, true to its mission for direct link of education with the entrepreneurial community, organizes a series of student visits, called “IST on Site” to company sites. During such visits, students have the opportunity to get in touch with business executives and experience first hand how businesses operate.
- The “Share the Knowledge Symposium” conference which is a day dedicated at students presenting their best assignments, aiming at rewarding them for their efforts as well as enhancing the college’s extroversion.
Additionally, aiming at promoting entrepreneurship, IST College, organises two distinct entrepreneurship and innovation competitions: Modus Vivendi and Crazy Business Ideas.
Both Modus Vivendi and Crazy Business Ideas competitions aim at providing young people with motive and incentives, prompting them to not only think of innovative ideas, but dare to act upon them.
During the last 3 years, IST College successfully organises a student business competition called “Modus Vivendi”. Modus Vivendi is an entrepreneurship and innovation competition aimed at IST students and IST graduates and is directly linked to the programmes of studies offered at the college.
The entrepreneurship and innovation competition, Crazy Business Ideas, is addressed at the general public, involving a large number of young people, who as participants or as observants, are prompted to think and act in an entrepreneurial way, despite their field of study or work.
Both Modus Vivendi, as well as Crazy Business Ideas provide young people with the opportunity to experience a “virtual business reality”, seeking, for solutions to growth, promotion and implementation of their idea, via their business plan.
