Develop Program - Turn Your Entrepreneurial Ideas into Reality

Thinking about starting or developing your business in NL? The Development Program-Winter 2026 (February 3-March 31, 2026) is your perfect action point. Whether you are a business student or NOT, this program will offer you, MUN Graduate Students, the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and help you develop the necessary skills.

The Develop program is a free of charge program which provides participants with core entrepreneurship themes and problem-solving skills. It represents training opportunities for participants to turn their business ideas into reality. Its training contents include Naming & Branding, Legal ABCs of Starting a Business, Sales, Marketing & Social Media, Managing Growth, Accounting for Business, Financial Management, Intellectual Property and Commercialization, and Next Steps – Resources, Supports & Planning. This certificate-provided ETP program has two main components: Workshop Modules (Theoretical lessons, self-study, online through Brightspace and asynchronous) and Special Topic Sessions (Practical lessons, hybrid mode and synchronous).

Workshop Modules: Eight workshop modules will be delivered every Tuesday (Starting February 3, 2026). You have one week (ideally) to self-study each workshop on your own time through Bright Space, or you are required to complete all modules at the end of the program (March 17, 2026)

Special Topic Sessions: 6 sessions are scheduled at 12-1 pm every Thursday starting from February 5, 2026, in St. John's campus and online for Grenfell and Labrador Campus and Marine Institute students. These sessions will focus on breaking down the online materials learnt and doing hands-on exercises. Guest speakers include entrepreneurs, representatives from organizations in the entrepreneurial ecosystem in NL and MUN professors.

For graduate students in the Marine, Grenfell, and Labrador campuses, we offer you a hundred percent of the Online Develop Program in this Winter. So, please don't hesitate to grab this special learning opportunity. 

Special policy: Students who cannot synchronously attend the Special Topic Sessions as required due to their recurrent study schedule conflict or children/family responsibility can apply for the special policy by contacting the program coordinator at dtmaihanh@mun.ca. By obtaining this policy, eligible students are allowed to review the sessions' recordings (weekly posted on Brightspace) on their own time.

Benefits: Please note that besides the knowledge and invaluable experiences in entrepreneurship and business, you can add this program's certificate (which its program outline) to your resume to become a stronger job applicant for your career development in the near future. Besides, as an ETP certificate holder, your experience in this field will be added to Memorial's Online Record of Experience (MORE). By using MORE, students will be able to catalogue their experiences, recognize specific competencies they've gained, quantify their experiences by time and competency development and share those competencies and experiences with various academic and professional stakeholders (such as on LinkedIn).

A Certificate of Completion awaits you! Please quickly reserve your spot. Our registration form will be closed on February 10, 2025. Registration link: https://mun.jotform.com/253316091323247

A Certificate of Completion awaits you! Please quickly reserve your spot. Our registration form will be soon.