Application for admission into Take Off
Please fill in this application if you want to apply for admission into Take Off in
Studentervæksthus Aarhus.
Based on your application we will evaluate if there is a basis for an interview where you
will have the opportunity to elaborate your application and where we together can find out
whether Take Off is the right option for you.
Please write 10-15 lines under each item. This will be a good basis for us in the further
guidance.
If you have made a business plan, you can attach this to the application.
Please send the completed application to: kontakt@studentervaeksthus.au.dk
Within 14 days after deadline we shall call the most qualified applicants for an
individual interview where you can elaborate your application.
Deadlines: 1 March, 1 May, 15 August, 1 October, 1 December.
The application is divided into below nine fields:
1. FACTUAL INFORMATION
2. YOUR IDEA
3. EXPERIENCE WITH YOUR IDEA
4. MOTIVATION
5. (GROWTH) POTENTIAL OF YOUR IDEA
6. SUSTAINABILITY
7. PERSONAL COMPETENCES
8. POSSIBLE HURDLES
9. CONTRIBUTION TO COMMUNITY
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1. FACTUAL INFORMATION
Name:
Address:
Postal code/town:
Matriculation no.:
Field of study (institution, faculty):
E-mail:
Tel. No.:
Name of project/company:
Web:
Date:
2. YOUR IDEA
What is your idea?
How did your idea turn up?
Why is this idea important to you?
3. EXPERIENCE WITH YOUR IDEA
Which actions have you already taken with regard to your idea?
What have you learned by acting on your idea?
How can you use this in future?
4. MOTIVATION
What do you expect to achieve by continuing working with your idea?
When you look 3 years ahead, where do think you will be in relation to
entrepreneurship?
What will it give you to be an entrepreneur?
What do you really want – if everything is possible? (Imagine that you have both
time, money and resources enough)
Why do you want it?
5. (GROWTH) POTENTIAL OF YOUR IDEA
(In relation to your idea) what is the customer’s problem?
How does your idea remedy the customer’s problem? What is the solution?
What is then the customer’s result?
Who is (already) supplying products/solutions that solve the customer’s
problem?
Imagine that you are a customer in your present or future business. Which
advantages will you gain as a customer? How is the business unique in one
or more of these four fields? IMPORTANT that you quantify and specify your
replies.
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Finances. How much money will you help the customer save?
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Time. How much time will you help the customer save?
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Value. Which image will you help the customer sustaining?
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Service level. Apart from what is expected, what will the customer get
in your business?
6. SUSTAINABILITY
How can your idea become a financially sustainable company?
If your company was to accept social responsibility, how would this be put
into practice?
If your company was to accept environmental responsibility by
implementing your idea, how would this be put into practice?
7. PERSONAL COMPETENCES
Which three personal competences (non-professional) do you consider the
most important that you bring to your company?
1.
2.
3.
8. POSSIBLE HURDLES
What are you concerned (if anything) that you lack to proceed with your
idea?
What are you concerned (if anything) may block success with your idea?
Which three questions are most important to you to be answered?
1.
2.
3.
If there are any legal (or other) aspects that you must pay attention to, which
could they be?
9. CONTRIBUTION TO COMMUNITY
What can you contribute to the other students in Take Off?
Which are your strengths as to being part of communities?
What do you expect to gain from being part of Take Off?