UGent stimulates entrepreneurship for Bachelor and Master students, by integrating this theme in the educational curriculum and by allowing students to apply for the special status 'student entrepreneurship'. For PhD students, specialist courses and intensive programs on entrepreneurship related aspects can be followed at UGent or beyond, as part of their transferable skills doctoral training in one of the UGent Doctoral Schools.
- Students with entrepreneurial or similar ideas, which are based on research conducted at UGent, can obtain advise and coaching here at UGent DBm (for innovations towards the construction sector) or at UGent TechTransfer and one of its business development centres.
- Students with ideas for starting their own business, making no use of research results obtained at UGent can request advise and coaching at 'Durf Ondernemen (UGent DO!)'.