Location

The Startup Garage – set up in 2017 – is an enjoyable and creative place between the classrooms of the East Campus USI-SUPSI in Lugano Viganello. It is a place where students are enabled to develop their own entrepreneurial ideas without taking the risks of real entrepreneurs, but growing into dynamic people enabled to become real entrepreneurs at the end of their academic path.

A new way to promote attitude towards entrepreneurial leadership at an early stage among students and teachers is experienced by linking curricular and extra-curricular teaching and contents, as well as by supporting voluntary learning “on demand” among students. Intertwined links are indeed possible within a nursery environment, so-called Entreprenursery, where students are encouraged to express their creativity, both by raising startup ideas and by solving companies’ technical and scientific issues.

Entrepreneurial students are thus supported in their innovative ideas through collaboration with teachers, experts, entrepreneurs. They are also stimulated to engage other students to be part of an interdisciplinary team.