LBTU Student Business Incubator
Located within the University, the LBTU Student Business Incubator provides all students with the opportunity to engage in entrepreneurial activities and develop their ideas during their studies, using LBTU infrastructure and the skills and expertise available at LBTU.
The aim of the incubator is to promote student innovation projects, highlighting the Zemgale region and its development, strengthening and promoting cooperation between university scientists and students with businesses, including local entrepreneurs and home producers who have expressed a desire to contribute to the LBTU Student Business Incubator program.
LBTU Student Business Incubator – a place where you can realise your business idea!
STUDENT INNOVATION PROGRAM - 6 MONTHS
The program helps LBTU become a successful innovation platform where students are not only prepared for the job market, but also motivated to become idea developers, entrepreneurs, and industry transformers at the local, national, and international levels.
The programme helps LBTU become a successful innovation platform where students are not only prepared for the job market, but also motivated to become idea developers, entrepreneurs, and industry transformers at the local, national, and international levels.
BENEFITS
Benefits for students participating in the program:
skills in innovation and scalability of ideas;
interdisciplinarity between different fields of education;
contact with industry representatives; targeted recruitment of scientific staff;
access to mentors and experts; awards, certificates and international opportunities;
scholarships;
support for studies;
portfolio as a development tool: involvement as mentors, evaluators, co-organizers;
feedback and professional recognition;
joint project creation;
access to mentors and experts;
awards, certificates, and international opportunities;
Benefits for academic staff participating in the program:
involvement as mentors, evaluators, co-organizers;
feedback and professional recognition;
joint project creation;
access to mentors and experts;
awards, certificates, and international opportunities;
Take a look at how the EU co-financed project “Promoting LBTU students' innovation skills and entrepreneurship” (No. 1.1.1.3/21/A/007) went. Check out the best cases here.
EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS
Activities offered
The LBTU Student Business Incubator offers students a unique opportunity to develop their ideas and entrepreneurial skills through a variety of activities that promote innovation, cooperation and growth.
LBTU Student Business Incubator – a place where you can realise your business ideas and establish cooperation!
Past events
Green Tech Hackathon;
EnerForest Hackathon;
AgriTech Meikathon.
Intensive creative workshops in collaboration with leading companies in the industry, such as Latvenergo, Latvijas Valsts meži, Latvijas Finieris, and others. Students tackle real environmental, energy, and agricultural challenges, developing practical and sustainable innovations.
Networking events
School for young managers;
Board game evenings;
Study evenings.
Networking evenings are organized to promote cooperation, where you can meet like-minded people and future cooperation partners, together with the LBTU Student Council.
COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT TRAINING
START UP Wednesdays
During the training, students will learn step by step how to develop their business idea, gaining knowledge about entrepreneurship, marketing, innovation, personal productivity, financial basics, introduction to 3D modeling, and presentation (pitch) skills, with the support of professional mentors.
FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES
EIT Food Hub in Latvia
EIT Food Hub in Latvia is developed in cooperation with the Latvian Rural Advisory and Training Centre and the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia, bringing together the strongest players in the innovation ecosystem with a wide network and experience in supporting entrepreneurs and innovators in the agriculture and food sectors, while promoting the creation of new businesses and their involvement in EU-level programmes such as EIT Food Jumpstarter, EIT Food Seedbed and Test Farms, which provide opportunities to validate ideas, attract funding and test solutions in the real market.
UNILAB
UniLab incubator, established by four leading scientific universities in Latvia – Riga Technical University, University of Latvia, Riga Stradins University and Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies – to support students' technological business ideas by offering mentoring, resources and knowledge for idea development and validation on the path to successful entrepreneurship.
Technology and Knowledge Transfer Centre
The LBTU Technology and Knowledge Transfer Centre promotes cooperation between scientists and entrepreneurs, ensures intellectual property protection, facilitates commercialisation of research results, and provides a broad range of services to support innovation and start-up development at both regional and national levels.
COOPERATION OPPORTUNITIES
Become a cooperation partner of the LBTU Student Business Incubator
We invite entrepreneurs and private individuals to become partners and patrons of the LBTU Student Business Incubator. The Student Business Incubator is an excellent platform that helps to establish cooperation with young talents and industry, as well as to get involved in the development of new and innovative solutions!
In 2023, LBTU Student Business Incubator was supported by more than 61 entrepreneurs!
If you have any questions, please contact Ieva Celma, Deputy Head of the LBTU Student Business Incubator: ieva.celma@lbtu.lv, +371 25623922.
ORGANIZERS AND PARTNERS
MAKEATHONS