Entrepreneurship Pathway
Build Your Future
An entrepreneurship gap year in Spain, designed to challenge, inspire, and prepare you for the future. You’ll collaborate with international students, learn from expert mentors, and turn ideas into a real business concept, all while building the confidence and skills that matter in every career path.
- International Teamwork
- Idea Development
- Business Modeling
- Investor Pitch
- Mentorship & Guidance
Think boldly. Create opportunities. Pitch your idea.
A gap year built for future leaders
This pathway is designed for students who want more than a traditional gap year. It combines entrepreneurship, innovation, and real-world collaboration in a way that feels practical, exciting, and meaningful. You’ll work alongside students from top business schools and young entrepreneurs from Barcelona’s start-up scene, learning how to spot opportunities, build solutions, and communicate ideas clearly. The experience is structured, hands-on, and designed to help you grow into a confident thinker and leader.
Whether you already have a business idea or are starting from scratch, you’ll be guided through the process of turning an initial concept into something real. The focus is not only on starting a company, but on developing the mindset to lead, adapt, and solve problems in any career. Even if you never launch a venture, the skills you build here will stay with you for life.
Leadership
Creativity
Teamwork
Communication
Adaptability
Problem-Solving
Confidence
Collaborate. Create. Pitch.
Join an environment where ideas are tested, refined, and brought to life. You’ll take part in workshops, mentoring sessions, and team-based development led by experienced guides, with the chance to work on a venture that responds to a real market need. The program is intentionally immersive, so you are not just learning about entrepreneurship, you are practicing it.
Your experience is shaped by collaboration with people from different academic and cultural backgrounds, which makes the process more dynamic and realistic. Teams are formed to encourage fresh thinking and different perspectives, helping you learn how to communicate, compromise, and move an idea forward together. Barcelona’s innovation ecosystem adds another layer, giving the pathway an energetic, international feel.
How it works
Your pathway follows a clear progression from idea to pitch. First, you’ll join mixed teams with students from universities like ESADE, EU Business School, and TBS, plus young entrepreneurs from Barcelona’s start-up world. From there, you’ll brainstorm, validate, and shape your concept with mentor support before presenting it to real entrepreneurs and investors.
The final pitch takes place in the iconic Torre Glòries, where teams present Shark Tank-style and one team receives a €1,000 investment prize. More importantly, every participant leaves with practical experience in teamwork, presentation, business strategy, and high-pressure communication. It’s a challenge that builds capability and confidence in equal measure.
Meet Maya
Marketing and Development Intern + Entrepreneurship
Maya joined the pathway with a strong interest in business and innovation. During her experience, she gained hands-on exposure inside a global tech company while also developing her own entrepreneurial project through the Future Leaders competition. Her work included researching team training trends, benchmarking coaching models, and collaborating with the product team to design and present a prototype. She also launched a sustainable business model, pitched it in the final event, and won the investment prize.
- Gained hands-on experience in business within a global tech company.
- Led the design of a new corporate coaching activity.
- Researched trends and benchmarked coaching models.
- Collaborated with the product team to build and present a prototype.
- Developed a sustainable business model through the Future Leaders entrepreneurship competition.
- Won the investment prize in a Shark Tank-style pitch.
Meet Mateo
Large scale Business Logistics Intern + Entrepreneurship
Mateo joined the program with an interest in operations, sales, and business development. He completed an internship with Aticco in Barcelona, where he worked across operations and sales, while also developing Casa Creativa through the entrepreneurship pathway. His role in the project included steering finances and presenting the concept to real investors.
- Completed an internship in operations and sales with Aticco in Barcelona.
- Worked on Casa Creativa through the entrepreneurship pathway.
- Helped steer finances and develop the business concept.
- Pitched the project to real investors.
Build Your Future
From idea generation to final pitch, this pathway gives you the space to think differently, work creatively, and build something meaningful.