Student Entrepreneurship
Pôle Étudiant pour l’Innovation, le Transfert et l’Entrepreneuriat en Bourgogne Franche-Comté (Student Pole for Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship in Burgundy Franche-Comté)
Pépite – student entrepreneurship
Are you a student with an idea for a new business? Then don’t hesitate! Thanks to the PEPITE BFC scheme, gain access to student-entrepreneur status and make your project a reality!
How does it work?
Since 2014, any student or young graduate wishing to be trained in entrepreneurship and innovation can be supported and helped within a Pôle Étudiant Pour l’Innovation, le Transfert et l’Entrepreneuriat (PÉPITE).
– Discover Pépite Bourgogne Franche-Comté
Pépite also provides access to the national student-entrepreneur status (SNEE). Student-entrepreneur status confers the following advantages:
- Obtain adjustments to your student timetable.
- Replace your compulsory internship with work on your business start-up project.
- Benefit from the support of 2 tutors, including a mentor (entrepreneur or member of a support and financing network) from the Pépite network.
- Access a Pépite network coworking space.
- Sign a business project support contract (Cape).
The Pépite training-accompaniment program is delivered via a special study program. More specifically, it is based on learning by doing:
- learning by doing (weekend startups, creation of fictitious projects in a short timeframe by teams, etc.)
- access to digital resources
- personalized supervision by outside teachers and coaches, Pépite partners.
To become a student-entrepreneur, you must :
- be a student enrolled in a course program in higher education or be a recent graduate
- be selected by your campus Pépite agency based on the quality of your project.
- Student support provided by a team of 12 entrepreneurs, academics and consultants
- A class of 122 student entrepreneurs
- More than 500 hours of individual and group support
- Since 2015, Pépite BFC has enabled the creation of 91 companies
