Engineering program
Gap year
Entrepreneur Tech Year (ETY)
An entrepreneurial gap year, dedicated to CentraleSupélec engineering students and international students on a gap year from our academic partners: Technical University of Munich, McGill University, and City University of Hong Kong
The Entrepreneur Tech Year (ETY) is an entrepreneurial gap year dedicated to CentraleSupélec engineering students or international students on a gap year from our academic partners (TUM, McGill, CityUHK), who wish to take a significant and structured period to create their startup, before continuing or completing their studies.
Conceived as a year of total immersion in entrepreneurship, the ETY allows you to transform an idea, a project, or an entrepreneurial ambition into a concrete business, by leveraging the ecosystem of excellence at 21st by CentraleSupélec.
Why choose the Entrepreneur Tech Year?
- Pursue entrepreneurship full-time, without academic compromise
The ETY offers you an official framework to dedicate an entire year to your entrepreneurial project. - Drastically accelerate your project
A year to test, iterate, fail, learn, structure… Or potentially pivot. - Benefit from rigorous yet supportive guidance
Coaching, mentors, juries, and experts help you make critical decisions for the next steps of your project - Immerse yourself in the deeptech startup ecosystem
Access to the ecosystem 21st by CentraleSupélec, to events, masterclasses, to La Fabrique (1 200 m²) and to the ecosystem of STATION F.
What you will learn
The Entrepreneur Tech Year is based on action-based learning, focused on your real entrepreneurial project.
Throughout the year, you will develop the key skills to:
- Identify a significant problem and a real market opportunity
- Build, test, and evolve an MVP by engaging with users
- Define a product and go-to-market strategy coherent
- Structure a business model and a credible financial plan
- Pitch your project to juries of entrepreneurs and experts
The Entrepreneur Tech Year experience
- Total immersion in entrepreneurial life, full-time
- Structured support, with coaches, mentors, and regular milestones
- Significant autonomy, fostering responsibility and professional development
- Privileged access to the 21st by CentraleSupélec ecosystem and team
The ETY is a natural springboard towards:
- la CentraleSupélec Entrepreneur Track (3A),
- l’incubation or acceleration within 21st by CentraleSupélec,
- or the continuation of the entrepreneurial project after graduation.
Ideal profile for this program
The ETY is for CentraleSupélec engineering students who wish to dedicate a gap year to entrepreneurship, between their 2nd and 3rd year.
You are:
with a startup creation project, technological or deeptech
ready to commit full-time to their project
able to work in uncertainty and complexity
independent, persistent, and open to challenging themselves
A highly motivated duo
We organize, we bring together excellent speakers, we support you, and we make sure you're delighted!
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