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Tales of Imagination and Creativity

Can creativity be really taught? Actually you were used to be a creativity specialist during your childhood years.  The challenge for you right now is just to awaken your creative skills. In this workshop, you will learn how to unlock your natural capacity for creativity through a range of hands-on activities and fun exercises.

How to Turn an Idea into Business

Inspiration has struck you with a brilliant idea for a business, but how exactly do you transfer your idea into a fully-fledged and profitable business? In this workshop, you will learn the basic steps that you can take in order to get your idea into motion. You will learn how to validate your idea against value creation and profit making.

Maker’s Lab: Creating Something out of Nothing

You are invited to roll up your sleeves and utilize useless materials and waste (i.e. used plastic bottles of water) commonly found in the sea in order to produce valuable/marketable products. In this workshop, you will apply in practice the skills you cultivated in the creativity and entrepreneurship sessions and you will realize the importance of upcycling (creative reuse).

Enterprising in Action: The Challenge of Social Entrepreneurship

Have you ever dreamed of changing the world or making a difference in the world? In this workshop, you will learn what social entrepreneurship is about and why it is so exciting. You will be challenged to think about a problem you care about and consider possible market-based solutions for it. Designing a business model for the products that you will have created in the maker’s lab will be the first baby step towards the application of a social entrepreneurial mindset.

Mindfulness and Wellbeing for Entrepreneurs

In this workshop, you will be introduced into Mindful Breathing as a tool to recognize and control stress, cultivate a relaxed state of mind, learn how to be present in the moment and thereby be able to do everything with more discipline, focus and authenticity. Connecting with your breath, will give you the ability to navigate through situations as great leaders do, being calm, focusing on the issues, connecting to the people around you and generate new ideas to solve problems and achieve social and academic success.

Social and Digital Networking Technologies for Entrepreneurs

Start early! Learn how to distribute and promote your products on-line. The fundamentals of digital marketing targeted to young entrepreneurs! Save money and time by learning everything, you need at an early stage in your life.

Life in the Trading Room

In this workshop, you will acquire practical knowledge on global financial markets, including trading mechanics, main products traded, and trading market practices. Specifically, you will learn about market dynamics and factors that affect financial security prices and understand these factors via live trading strategies. Real case studies will be demonstrated in class, providing you with the experience of an actual trading floor.

Pitching as a Drama Act

In what ways can Theatre be useful in Business? In this workshop, you will be able to explore Pitching from the perspective of Acting. You will be equipped with tools that improve your presentational skills. You will learn techniques that make you not only convince but also captivate your audience.

Mediation Strategies and Games

After all, what mediation is all about? This workshop will allow you to understand and explore the fundamental principles of mediation. In particular, you will have the opportunity to practice mediating conflicts and understand the value of mediation as a conflict resolution tool applicable through games.

Ethical Dilemmas in Entrepreneurship

What is ethical behavior? How should or shouldn’t we act in a specific situation? Ethics refer to a code or set of principles, standards, or rules that guide our actions within a particular social framework. This module aims to explore and consider the nature of ethical action, judgment, and decision making, with special reference to challenges that young entrepreneurs currently face. You will be engaged in a critical discussion of how a person ought to act responsibly in a particular case and to what extent this action should be described as right or wrong.

Leadership Stories

In this workshop, you will learn great lessons of leadership through stories of leaders in Ancient Greece. These stories link the experience of Ancient Greek leaders to the modern corporate reality and attempt to bring value to different traits of Leadership such as building high potential teams and company culture, leading in crisis, talents and succession planning, Women Leaders and innovation.

Project Management

In this workshop, you will be introduced into basic project management concepts while at the same time learn and practice valuable life skills.  Understanding what a project is, from the organization and execution of a party or trip up to the design and launch of a spacecraft.  To achieve that we will explore cases on setting up goals, organizing tasks and assigning responsibilities, preparing time plans, handling issues, and learning from experience.

Digital & Social Networking Technologies for Entrepreneurs

An interactive course – workshop about the value of information, social media, technology, and entrepreneurship! Through stories, tales and myths, trends, memes, and real-world examples, students explore how digital communication works and how an idea can grow into a successful brand or business in today’s digital world.

Renewable Energy Entrepreneurship: Designing the Future with Wind Power

Innovation begins when technology meets vision.

In this hands-on entrepreneurship workshop, students will explore how renewable energy technologies can evolve from simple ideas into sustainable business opportunities. Using small-scale wind turbine construction as a starting point, participants will investigate concepts such as green innovation, product development, circular economy, sustainable manufacturing, and startup thinking.

Through teamwork and creative problem-solving, students will experience the process of transforming an engineering concept into a market-ready solution while discussing the growing global demand for clean energy technologies and environmentally responsible businesses.
The program encourages entrepreneurial thinking, innovation leadership, and the development of future-ready skills connected to sustainability and the green economy.

Innovation on Wheels: The Pierce Solar Hybrid Race Car Experience

What does it take to design and build a vehicle powered by the energy of the future?
In this interactive presentation, students will discover the story behind Pierce’s running solar hybrid race cars and explore how engineering, sustainability, innovation, and entrepreneurship come together in a real-world project.

Participants will be introduced to the design and development process of an energy-efficient racing vehicle, while also examining the broader challenges of future transportation, renewable energy integration, and sustainable mobility.
Beyond technology, the program highlights teamwork, project management, problem-solving, and the entrepreneurial mindset required to transform ambitious ideas into functional innovations.

The presentation offers students a unique opportunity to connect STEM education with modern industry, green technologies, and the evolving world of innovation-driven careers.

Summer School Day Trips

Over the course of the three weeks, students will visit places and locations within and outside the Attica region.

At a glance:

  • International Educational 3-week summer program open to all students, ages 13-17
  • All classes and activities are held in English
  • Program Dates: June 15, 2026 – July 3, 2026
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