The summer school will be delivered with up to 30.5 learning hours to include:

• Lectures with interactive exercises, group discussions and questions.
• Group projects for assessing the learning outcomes, supported by Q&A/tutorials.
• Guest speakers will include start-up founders, investors, mentors and innovators etc.
• Final day for project presentation.

Project work will be done through team-based learning and tutorials. Final projects will be presented in groups on the last day of the programme. A prize will be awarded to the team with the best project. 

The entire programme will be taught in English.

The summer school will be taught by Dr Ebrahim Mohamed and a multi-disciplinary teaching faculty from the other departments.

Dr Ebrahim Mohamed is an innovation expert and formerly Director of Executive MBA programmes at Imperial College Business School where he worked for over 20 years. Ebrahim was one of the founding team members of the Imperial Entrepreneurship HUB and received the prestigious Imperial College Graduate School Award for contribution to Innovation/Entrepreneurship (transferable skills) programme. Ebrahim has mentored executives, young professionals and entrepreneurs for over two decades from the elite institutions of the UK and Europe.

Ebrahim held one of the most significant roles in Europe as the Director of Education at Climate-KIC where he was mandated to define the new paradigm for climate innovation education. Climate-KIC is Europe’s leading organisation focused on innovation opportunities to mitigate and adapt to societal grand challenge of climate change. It is a public-private partnership with an impressive array of over 200 organisations including academic partners (Imperial College, ETH Zurich, UPMC and Oxford University), research institutes (Grantham and Potsdam) and a multitude of corporate partners from across Europe (KLM, ENGIE, Velux, Knight Frank). Through this work Ebrahim has a strong foundation on the innovation agenda of grand challenges. He is a specialist in the field of entrepreneurship education and helped spearhead Climate-KIC’s reputation in technology and innovation in Europe.

Ebrahim continues to work with a number of prestigious international Business Schools such as INSEAD, DUKE-FUQUA, Columbia and Stanford University on the challenges of education and business. He has been an expert advisor to multiple EU Agencies, EU Skills Agenda and the new EU Framework Programme. Ebrahim is currently working on initiatives empowering women as technology innovators and leaders. Also, he is focusing on MedTech and Cybersecurity entrepreneurship training. Ebrahim works as a freelance teacher at the London School of Economics and the Open University.

Ebrahim has received accolades for innovation in entrepreneurship education from the European Commission, OECD, Comite21, The Guardian and Forbes. Ebrahim is an ESRC (UK Economic and Social Research Council) Scholarship Winner, a graduate form the London School of Economics and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and has contributed regularly to the Financial Times, Independent, Times, Guardian and other media channels.

Students will receive a verified Imperial College London certificate of attendance on successful completion of this programme and a prize will be awarded to the best project team. Each student will also receive a transcript for their project marks.