There are many problems we want and need to solve in the world – so many that it can feel overwhelming to even know where to begin. But what if we had a guide for how to approach these challenges in a smarter, more sustainable way? In a sense, we do. Nature has spent billions of years learning how to adapt, use resources wisely, and keep systems running in changing environments – and there’s a lot we can learn from it.

• Dates: 2026-03-14 09:00 – 2026-03-15 17:00

Frustration is inevitable, especially during a challenging or ambitious project. You will get angry, annoyed, and irritated at some point – and while a lot of advice might tell you to just push through or ignore it, that frustration can actually be used to your advantage.

• Dates: 2026-04-18 09:30 – 2026-04-19 17:00

At one point or another, everyone feels caught between who they are and who they want to become. Most of us struggle more than we’d like to admit, balancing our responsibilities, personal lives, and aspirations. What will set you apart is whether you will wait around for clarity and motivation, or if you will take the initiative to build them yourself. Taking this workshop is that initiative.

• Dates: 2026-05-09 09:00 – 2026-05-10 17:00

Cultivating Liveable Futures Bootcamp explores how entrepreneurship, design, post-growth thinking, and a nature-positive ethic can support new regenerative pathways for living and working with the land.

• Dates: 2026-06-02 10:00 – 2026-06-11 17:00

The future has always been uncertain, but it almost seems like it’s getting even more unpredictable lately. We’re living in what some call the Age of Global Weirding, where climate disruption, AI acceleration, social fragmentation, and shifting markets collide in unpredictable ways.

• Dates: 2026-02-14 09:00 – 2026-02-15 17:00

In this workshop, you will have the chance to combine your unique skills with the expertise of your peers to tackle two real-world case studies in Sweden’s cultural and educational sectors.

• Dates: 2024-11-09 09:30 – 2024-11-10 16:30

In this bootcamp, participants will explore Tuscan food-systems through engaging in local community projects and using innovative design practices that include biomimicry, nature-based entrepreneurship and sustainable business modelling to inform sustainable food systems and future development scenarios.

• Dates: 2024-06-04 10:00 – 2024-06-13 17:00

Step, literally, into the realm of physical product development with this rare workshop, set in the innovative and dynamic environment of Toolspace – a fully-equipped prototyping facility with the machines, materials, education, support, and network necessary to transform your hardware-enabled ideas into reality.

• Dates: 2024-05-04 10:00 – 2024-05-05 17:00

In a world where so much is uncertain and constantly changing, truly understanding ourselves becomes a uniquely powerful asset. That is why this workshop is crafted to help you gain a profound and confident understanding of who you are, so that you can turn that self-knowledge into a strength when navigating life’s complexities.

• Dates: 2024-04-20 10:00 – 2024-04-21 17:00

Within the vast field of Life Sciences, there is potential for finding solutions to some major health and societal challenges of today and tomorrow. Together with the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”, this is opening up opportunities in areas that were previously only thought possible in science fiction. This workshop will provide you with the knowledge and tools necessary to make this a part of your future career.

• Dates: 2024-04-06 10:00 – 2024-04-07 17:00

Today, one of the biggest threats to the planet is the way we produce and consume goods. In a strictly linear manner we are taking raw materials, making products, purchasing these with money we just earned, only to waste the same products a moment later.

• Dates: 2024-03-16 10:00 – 2024-03-17 17:00

In a world where so much is uncertain and constantly changing, truly understanding ourselves becomes a uniquely powerful asset. That is why this workshop is crafted to help you gain a profound and confident understanding of who you are, so that you can turn that self-knowledge into a strength when navigating life’s complexities.

• Dates: 2024-03-02 10:00 – 2024-03-03 17:00

This workshop will explore how to better understand non-human others while thinking of ideas, services, products, or innovations that are needed to create a positive impact on the natural world.

• Dates: 2023-12-09 10:00 – 2023-12-10 17:00

Explore in our two-day workshop how ChatGPT can swiftly achieve what usually takes teams months, changing entrepreneurial trajectories.

• Dates: 2023-12-02 10:00 – 2023-12-03 17:00

The idea behind the Art Thinking method is that anyone can indeed be creative – all it takes is action. It may be a hesitant action, but an action nonetheless.

• Dates: 2023-11-25 10:00 – 2023-11-26 17:00

In this workshop we will particularly look at and practise different ways to use improvisation as a tool for co-creation, using methods like participation, mutual empowerment, and sharing.

• Dates: 2023-11-18 10:00 – 2023-11-19 17:00

During this intensive weekend, you will get a crash course in theories and associated tools on empathy, value co-creation, inclusion, and engagement.

• Dates: 2023-06-10 10:00 – 2023-06-11 17:00

Being frugal can no longer be reduced to a necessity for some and not others. It is a conscious choice — an approach that is useful in all settings, and crucial to the survival of the planet.

• Dates: 2023-04-22 10:00 – 2023-04-23 17:00

In this workshop you will apply biomimicry to help solve entrepreneurial challenges by asking the question ‘what would nature do here?’ and ‘how can nature be viewed as a valid stakeholder in the design process?’

• Dates: 2023-02-18 10:00 – 2023-02-19 17:00

Regardless of what your entrepreneurial desires are there will come a time when you will need to persuade, inspire and captivate your audience.

• Dates: 2022-12-10 10:00 – 2022-12-11 17:00

Everybody who is anybody is talking about Agile. But what is it? How can you leverage agile principles in your future projects?

• Dates: 2022-10-29 10:00 – 2022-10-30 17:00

The foundations of business are slowly but surely shifting into a new decentralized age, in which knowledge will be more powerful and in demand than ever.

• Dates: 2022-10-15 10:00 – 2022-10-16 17:00

Explore the idea of making a real difference in your life. We are focusing on the great challenges of our time and provide a platform for exchange, solutions and change. It’s a hard challenge and you need to accept a great challenge, great resistance and reality in the most stressful environments that exists in society today.

• Dates: 2022-07-17 08:00 – 2022-07-24 17:00

Shape the future of the medical industry and drive local innovation in our upcoming bootcamp together with the Carlson School of Management

• Dates: 2022-05-25 15:00 – 2022-06-03 19:00

What role does your faith in students’ learning play in how you approach the classroom? Welcome to an online workshop with Colin Jones to discuss, debate and examine just that.

• Dates: 2021-10-29 10:00 – 2021-10-29 11:30

During the course of one semester, students from a variety of disciplines, backgrounds and cultures will meet in weekly sessions on topics such as ethics and moral vision, motivation, self-regulation, personal myth and well-being. In addition to the weekly sessions, you will get a tailor-made introduction to the local innovation ecosystem and join the community of diverse minds that make up the SSES universe.

• Dates: 2021-01-30 09:00 – 2021-03-21 16:00

Help us make Stockholm a more inclusive city. During an intense one-week experience, you will work together with students from a variety of disciplines and cultures to design and prototype solutions that benefit people with disabilities. 

• Dates: 2020-05-18 09:00 – 2020-05-22 17:00

Join us to investigate how finance will influence how we live, love and work in the 21th century.

• Dates: 2019-11-11 09:00 – 2019-11-15 17:00

SSES students are invited to the NUS Enterprise Summer Program 2019, held from 14 to 27 July 2019. This year’s program is poised with a focus on entrepreneurial opportunities in Southeast Asia, one of the fastest growing consumer markets in the world.

• Dates: 2019-07-14 00:00 – 2019-07-27 00:00

The most important relationship you will ever have in your life is the one with yourself. But how many of us really know the depth of our own potential? In this interactive workshop, you will learn how to apply ideas from the world of business to explore your individual potential.

• Dates: 2018-11-23 08:30 – 2018-11-23 09:30

As wicked problems continue to permeate and change the nature of our society, many of the traditional ways of addressing social needs are replaced by other entrepreneurial initiatives. Today, many organizations are as concerned with making a positive impact on the world as they are with making money. Against this backdrop, social entrepreneurship has taken off as a new formula for success, combining the market forces of capitalism with a “do-good” mentality.

• Dates: 2018-10-19 08:30 – 2018-10-19 09:30

On October 12, we are happy to invite you to a seminar with Lilian Thuram on the topic on diversity in higher education.

• Dates: 2018-10-12 10:00 – 2018-10-12 12:00

Get the skills you need to understand the behavioral biases of financial decision making.

• Dates: 2018-09-14 08:30 – 2018-09-14 09:30

The Ambassador of Sweden, Mr Håkan Jevrell and Mrs Catharina Jevrell and the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship kindly invite you to your Alumni Homecoming.

• Dates: 2018-06-04 19:00 – 2018-06-04 21:00

Join us for an exciting bootcamp into one of the smartest cities in the world, Singapore.

• Dates: 2018-06-01 00:00 – 2018-06-08 00:00

Through a unique collaboration between SSES and Gather Festival, students from a plethora of disciplines will be invited to co-design and curate the experience of Gather Festival 2018.

• Dates: 2018-05-30 17:00 – 2018-05-30 19:00

We are very happy to invite you to the next Education Café on Friday May 25, 10.00–11.30. Associate Professor Phillip Kim, Babson College, USA, will share his thoughts on ”Energizing your Entrepreneurship Curriculum”.

• Dates: 2018-05-25 10:00 – 2018-05-25 11:30

May 4th we’re happy to welcome Solomon Darwin from Berkeley, and Michael Barrett from Cambridge, to Stockholm. Please join us for a back-to-back seminar with lunch included, and hear more about their latest research.

• Dates: 2018-05-04 11:00 – 2018-05-04 15:30

Connect with fellow change makers, dreamers, utopians and unicorns over a drink or two – the SSES X KI Meetup invites you and your peers from our five member schools.

• Dates: 2018-04-26 19:00 – 2018-04-26 21:30

What is the Future of Life and how can we prepare for the challenges ahead? Join us and life science company, Bayer, to explore future scenarios in an immersive bootcamp to remember.

• Dates: 2018-04-19 00:00 – 2018-04-22 00:00

Ecuador would like to have a week with you. Explore the heritage of indigenous communities and their agricultural wealth. Discover the environmental and cultural context of the majestic Andes and deep Amazon.

• Dates: 2018-02-18 00:00 – 2018-02-25 00:00

Inspirational leader, serial entrepreneur, acclaimed author, and active investor – Jan Carlzon has done it all. We have invited the “Grandfather of Tech” to our upcoming Live AMA on February 14th. Interested? This way:

• Dates: 2018-02-14 09:00 – 2018-02-14 11:30

Connect with fellow change makers, dreamers, utopians and unicorns over a drink or two – the SSES X Konstfack Meetup invites you and your peers from our five member schools.

• Dates: 2018-02-08 18:00 – 2018-02-08 21:00

You have probably heard that you learn from failing. But do you learn more from failing big?

• Dates: 2017-04-02 12:00 – 2017-04-02 13:30