Knowmads

Knowmads in 3 minutes

We are a creative, entrepreneurial school, but Knowmads is also much more than a school. It is a platform for entrepreneurs who want to make a difference in this world.

Knowmads (students and staff) are nomadic workers who can work anywhere, with everybody. We are brave, responsible, creative, imaginative and entrepreneurial. We work in a one year setting, combined with a socio-economic enterprise. We build blocks for a more colourful and better world.

Our program is based on action learning in a team setting. Within this we connect social and sustainability issues with value driven entrepreneurship.

By attending Knowmads you become one of the owners of the school. Your tuition fee is 4.500 euro. With this you get a share in the limited partnership Knowmads Tribe 2.

Knowmads is responsible for bringing in at least 4 assignments/challenges from our partners in this year.

These assignments/challenges have to connect to at least one of the themes:

• Entrepreneurship & New Business Design
• Social Innovation & Sustainability
• Marketing & Creativity
• Personal Leadership
• (International) Project Design
• Process Design

With each theme, partners bring in an assignment and one employee. As a tribe, together with that employee, we are going to work with knowledge, feeling and ideas. We are then presenting a real working solution for the assignment/challenge the partner brought in.

We present this in a pitch, together with a quote and working plan. When the partner accepts the plan the students will work it out, for real.
So by working on real life assignments four times a year we connect and implement the learning experiences into the assignment/challenge. Next to this we try to inspire and coach the Knowmads on working on their own ideas and projects.

There will be staff available to organize all of this. Next to this we fly in (connected to the necessary knowledge/skills) leaders from media, business and politics to get the knowledge and skills to work on the assignments. The idea is also that each Knowmad will be coached once every two weeks by someone from our network. These coaches are all entrepreneurs.

Knowmads are people that acknowledge each other and have an entrepreneurial drive.

They share a purpose : to create win-win-win situations: a win for the students, a win for the client and a win for society.
In the “Curriculum” there are themes which connect to Head, Heart and Hands:

Theory, values, real-life projects, workshops, a physical and spiritual stream, coaching and training.

We listen to each other, we play together, we see each other for who we really are, we take each other seriously, we bring out the best in each other and we challenge each other.
By doing so we work on autonomy, breakthrough, interconnectedness and transformation in this one year, and by doing so we become a community, like real nomads. After the first year it is possible to go on an international project somewhere in the world or get a half year of coaching and support to start your own business.

Knowmads is much more than a school. It is a platform for entrepreneurs who want to make a difference in this world.

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