Camp Noste - learn and earn 1–3 credits!

Interested in entrepreneurship in Finland? Discover your opportunities, understand the local market and find a path that works for you.

You don’t need a ready-made business idea to get started. Your skills, experience and interests can be the starting point for something new.

CAMP Noste is a practical 3 ECTS course for international students who want to explore entrepreneurship and learn how to turn their knowledge, skills or ideas into realistic business opportunities in Finland. CAMP Noste is a week-long acceleration and refinement workshop for your business idea, product, or service. The English-language instruction includes topic introductions, company guest speakers, and daily workshops where you will develop your idea further in collaboration with experts. The week concludes with a pitching training session, designed to help you learn how to effectively sell your idea.

What will you gain from CAMP Noste?

• Discover business opportunities that match your skills. Identify your strengths and explore how your expertise, experience or interests could meet customer needs and create value.
• Understand the Finnish market. Learn about Finnish customers, business culture and local ways of doing business. Explore what customers need and how you can develop solutions that stand out.
• Learn how to build a viable business. Use practical tools such as Lean Canvas to develop a business model. Explore start-up costs, funding needs and the financial realities of running a business.
• Explore different routes to entrepreneurship. Find out what starting a business in Finland involves. You’ll also explore buying an existing business as an alternative to starting from scratch.
• Build connections and gain confidence. Meet entrepreneurs and business experts, expand your networks in Finland and develop your ideas with practical guidance and feedback.

Learn by doing

Throughout the course, you’ll work with practical tools, explore real business opportunities and develop your own thinking. You’ll learn by doing and gain a clearer understanding of what entrepreneurship in Finland could mean for you.

Start with curiosity, not a finished business idea

CAMP Noste is about finding an entrepreneurial path that fits your skills, resources and opportunities in Finland. You might develop a new business idea, discover an unmet customer need or explore whether buying an existing business could be right for you.

For international students, completing CAMP Noste is required before joining the Y-zone Business Hub. CAMP Noste helps you understand entrepreneurship and the business environment in Finland before you start developing your business further in the Y-zone Business Hub.

Take the first step towards entrepreneurship and discover what you could build in Finland.