Entrepreneurship at Environment ( E @ E )

Building Pathways and Partnerships for Venture Creation

Are you a Faculty of Environment undergraduate or graduate student? Do you have an idea to create a better future, or to solve a problem? Entrepreneurship at Environment ( E @ E ) is here to help!

What does E @ E do?

E @ E is a group of entrepreneurship mentors that are dedicated to helping students succeed in the development of startup businesses and innovative ideas. But E @ E is not just for start-ups - it's for all students.

Taking risks and transforming our passion for sustainability into companies, organizations and movements using United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) as our guide.

Get started 

At Environment, there are many different paths to becoming a green entrepreneur. From developing an idea in one of our pitching competitions to working on an entrepreneurial project for a course, you can find a path that suits you. If the latter interests you, check out the following credit courses offered within the Faculty with ideation and entrepreneurship built right in. They include: 

• ENBUS 203 - Green Entrepreneurship
• ENBUS 403 - Sustainable Entrepreneurship Project
• INTEG 121 - Collaboration, Design Thinking and Problem Solving
• INDEV 308 - Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship
• ECDEV 605 - Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development
• ENBUS 612 - Social Entrepreneurship and Scaling Social Innovation

As well, the Conrad School of Business and Entrepreneurship offers an Entrepreneurship Minor that can help you kickstart your entrepreneurial career while you study and St. Paul's GreenHouse offers social venture (SVENT) courses where you can receive academic credit for your work: 

• SVENT 225 - Exploring your passion for social change
• SVENT 325 - Launching a social venture

Check out these additional opportunities through St. Paul's GreenHouse: 

• Join Workplace Innovation, a community where changemakers work with a host organization to solve identified problems. 

• Join Innovators in Residence, a community where student innovators receive mentorship, training and funding to launch their own ventures.
• Attend a Discovery Lab, where innovators engage with organizations to find meaningful problems to work on.

Contact us

We always encourage grand ideas, but we support all those who are motivated. You could be seeking support for an entrepreneurial project for one of your courses, or you could be freelancing, looking to organize an event, or starting your own blog or tutoring group. No matter what it is, if you are open-minded and seeking to start something new, our mentors can guide you along in the process. Reach out to us!

env.entrepreneurship@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567, ext. 36870
Environment 2 (EV2) 2004