Join the Innovation Sprint Program, an applied elective pathway where students identify meaningful innovation opportunities, develop credible concepts, shape initial venture logic, and build execution roadmaps.
25 Spots Left
Apply before May 25th!
The Innovation Sprint Programme
Why this programme?
Many students have ideas. The harder part is learning how to develop those ideas responsibly.
- Who is the idea for?
- What need does it address?
- Why is it worth exploring?
- What assumptions need to be tested?
- How could it create value?
- What would need to happen before it could be implemented or scaled?
The Innovation Sprint Program gives students a structured way to work through these questions. Students work in teams on real or realistic challenges and create tangible outputs they can use in their academic and professional portfolios.
The sprint pathway
Across the two sprints, students move from identifying an opportunity to developing a credible concept, venture logic, and execution roadmap. The result is not a finished startup, it's a portfolio-ready project that shows how to connect insight, sustainability, and practical execution thinking.
Outcomes
What you will create
The outputs students take away are concrete and portfolio-ready:
- a validated concept
- a first business model sketch
- a final venture pitch
Along the way, they also produce stakeholder maps, assumption maps, and execution roadmaps. Work that shows how ideas get tested, not just imagined.
Who should join?
Is this for you?
This programme works best when the room is mixed. Students from Digital Transformation, Creative Media, Business Psychology, and Sustainability Management each bring something different and the work reflects it.
If you think in systems, tell stories through design, understand people, or care about sustainable impact, there's a real role for you here.
Your lecturer
Béla P. Sándor
Béla P. Sándor brings around 40 years of leadership and transformation experience to the classroom. He has built global businesses at Cisco and works with students and executives on strategy, innovation, digital transformation, applied AI, and business execution.
His teaching style is practical and interactive. Students work on real challenges, use structured frameworks, develop tangible outputs, and learn how to explain and defend their ideas.
Only 25 Seats Available — Apply Before May 25th
Format and credits
Each sprint includes:
4 weekly online preparation sessions
- 1 intensive in-person sprint week in Haarlem
- 43 class hours
- 41 hours self-study / applied project work
- 84 hours total study load
- 3 ECTS awarded by SRH Haarlem
Planned Sprint 1 timing:
- Online preparation starts: 8 June 2026
- In-person sprint week in Haarlem: 6–10 July 2026
How to register
- Registration before the 25th of May.
We have only 25 spots available, and they filling up.
- Choose your sprint pathway
Select whether you are interested in Sprint 1, Sprint 2, both sprints, or the full 7 ECTS pathway with the bridging project.
- Complete the registration form
Submit your basic details, current university, study level, and preferred sprint pathway.
- Receive confirmation and payment information
After submitting the form, you will receive confirmation of the next steps, including payment information and details about the online preparation sessions and in-person sprint week in Haarlem.
We reserve the right to cancel the programme if minimum enrolment numbers are not reached.