Master PREFS
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- Planning: Weekly and annual planning, Study fees, Absence notification
- Legal information: Study regulations, Reglements (mostly German)
- Information: Support and councelling, Voluntary courses, StudiApp
- Study Aa-Zz: all information alphabetically (German)
- Tools: Complesis, Collab, EventoWeb, Moodle (E-Learning), Webmail Office 365, Thesis Writer ZHAW
- Contacts: Academic office and Study support
- Website: www.zhaw.ch/lsfm/master-preneurship
The Msc in Preneurship for Regenerative Food Systems (PREFS) is divided into six segments and allows a high degree of individualisation of your studies. The segments are composed differently of mandatory and elective modules.
Module descriptions for some modules in English still to come. The module descriptions are being processed and may still change.
Segment Navigation
- Navigation 1 – Fundamentals in Food Systems, Ecosystems and Regeneration (Mandatory module | 6 credits)
- Navigation 2 – Fundamentals for Teams and Projects (Mandatory module | 4 credits)
Segment Agro Food Project
- Agro Food Project 1 – Vision and Proposal (Mandatory module | 4 credits)
- Agro Food Project 2 – Sustainable Business Model Canvas (Mandatory module | 7 credits)
- Agro Food Project 3 – Prototyping (Mandatory module | 7 credits)
- Agro Food Project 4 – Business Plan (Mandatory module | 2 credits)
- Master's Thesis (Mandatory module | 10 credits)
Segment Regenerative Preneurship
- Regenerative Strategies and Innovation Processes (Mandatory module | 3 credits)
- Regenerative Business Models and Finance (Mandatory module | 3 credits)
- 360° (Elective module | 4 credits), Programme flyer 2025 (PDF 0.93 MB)
- External Effort (Elective module | 2 credits)
- External Effort (Elective module | 3 credits)
- External Effort (Elective module | 4 credits)
- External Effort (Elective module | 5 credits)
Segment Agro Food Technology and Systems
- Food Tech Architecture – Design of Regenerative Technologies (Mandatory module | 4 credits)
- Food Systems Architecture – Design of Regenerative Networks (Mandatory module | 2 credits)
- Various elective modules
- 360° (Elective module | 4 credits), Programme flyer 2025 (PDF 0.93 MB)
- External Effort (Elective module | 2 credits)
- External Effort (Elective module | 3 credits)
- External Effort (Elective module | 4 cCredits)
- External Effort (Elective module | 5 credits)
Segment Individual Skills
- Individual Skills (Mandatory module | 2 credits)
- Individual Skills (Mandatory module | 3 credits)
- Individual Skills (Mandatory module | 4 credits)
- Individual Skills (Mandatory module | 5 credits)
- Individual Skills (Mandatory module | 6 credits)
- Individual Skills (Mandatory module | 7 credits)
- Individual Skills (Mandatory module | 8 credits)
- Individual Skills (Mandatory module | 9 credits)
- Individual Skills (Elective module | 2 credits)
- Individual Skills (Elective module | 3 credits)
- Individual Skills (Elective module | 4 credits)
- Individual Skills (Elective module | 5 credits)
Segment Disruption Days
- Disruption Days – Personal Resilience (Mandatory module | 2 credits)
- Disruption Days – Corporate Case (Mandatory module | 2 credits)