goScou­ting

We’re looking for students from all study programs who would like to present their projects. Scou­ting is a chance for ever­yone to:

• start a real-world dialogue with experts and expand their profes­sional network
  
• improve both their project with external feed­back with respect to their port­folio and their presen­ta­tion skills
• receive support from goHfG in prepa­ring their presentation
• parti­ci­pate in other goHfG offers and acti­vi­ties through your pitch with goScouting

Addtio­nally, we are looking for students to mode­rate the Scou­ting Team as goStu­dents during the goScou­tings. As a goStu­dent, you will have the chance to:

Expe­ri­ence inten­sive contact with the goScouts in a team

Test out and develop your manage­ment compe­tences through mode­ra­ting the meetings

To registration

Semester Exhi­bi­tion

At the end of each semester, students from all study programs present a total of around 500 semester or final projects. Within the frame­work of goScou­ting, scou­ting teams made of three people – both from the univer­sity and external, and guided by students – go through the presented works syste­ma­ti­cally. The scouts‘ goal is to iden­tify parti­cu­larly promi­sing projects and moti­vated teams.

In dialog between the scou­ting team and students, the main goal is to help empower and encou­rage students with success stories, which can help solve chal­lenges the project team might have faced. Through conver­sa­tion, the students can discuss poten­tial for deve­lo­p­ment and any ques­tions to be addressed.

If the scou­ting team is confi­dent in the motvia­tion of the students and the poten­tial of the project, the scouts can give the project leaders a goCard. By recei­ving the goCard, the team is encou­raged to further develop their project and plan to attend future work­shops like goEdu­ca­tion, goMen­to­ring, goAward, and goStart. The future deve­lo­p­ment of the project idea is comple­tely voluntary.

goScou­ting

In the goScou­ting dialog, the scou­ting team (made up of profes­sio­nals from the start-up, finan­cing, design, and busi­ness fields) encou­rage students to further develop their projects and proto­types with aspects of the busi­ness model canvas and future sustaina­bi­lity. Projects with poten­tial receive a goCard.

Compo­si­tion of scou­ting team

Central to the success of this measure are the exper­tise, empathy, and moti­va­tion of the scou­ting teams. For this reason, great emphasis is put on the selec­tion of scouts and the compo­si­tion of the scou­ting teams. The goal is to have the teams as balanced as possible. Each team should always have at least one expert in the three core areas of busi­ness expe­ri­ence, start-up, and design/​creation. Each scou­ting team should include at least one woman and one man. In addi­tion, each team will be supported and accom­pa­nied by an HfG student. The goScou­ting offers a networ­king impulse and a stimu­la­ting and enri­ching format, not only for the students but also for the scouts themselves.