• Dates: from January 30 to April 30, 2023.
   
• Dedication 8-10 hours per week (for 12 weeks).
   
• Price: Zero cost. Funded by Santander Universities.
   
• Languages: Spanish / English.
   
• Format: Blended learning (Spain).

• Present an idea or project with potential in the pre-incubation phase.
   
• Residing in Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the United States, Spain, Mexico, Portugal, the United Kingdom or Uruguay.
   
• Not having a legally constituted/incorporated company associated with the submitted project.

• Welcome! In the week before the program starts, you'll have access to multimedia materials to familiarize yourself with how the different work environments function, how group sessions and Q&A sessions are conducted, and what resources and tools are available.
   
• Get ready. During the first section of the program, you will learn how to organize yourself in a team and/or community, examine the ethics that should surround any project, and prepare to explore the potential of your idea through a framework in which shared knowledge and peer learning will play a leading role.
   
• Research. In this section, through various research processes, you will identify your potential customer and build your value proposition, focusing on the people you want to help with your solution.
   
• Fix & Build. This section will guide you in building a minimum viable product and prototyping your solution, while also working to bring your proposal closer to your audience through the latest marketing and communication techniques.
   
• Monetize. You'll learn all about business models and funding options, as well as how to develop financial projections for your project.
   
• Storytelling. You'll learn how to present your solution to clients, potential partners, prospective investors, and, most importantly, to the people who will decide whether you (and your team, if you have one) will be part of the Explorer Trip cohort. If you make it into this cohort, you'll enjoy a week of intensive training and immersion at a European entrepreneurship hub to continue the Explorer experience.

At the end of the 12-week program, if you complete all the planned activities, you will have validated whether your idea can become a viable business. And furthermore:

• You will develop creative thinking oriented towards finding solutions.
   
• You will unfold your purpose and values, explore your limits, and understand your potential.
   
• You will learn to understand and empathize with the needs of your potential customers.
   
• You will identify and learn the latest techniques and tools for communicating with your audience.
   
• You will incorporate a range of transversal skills (the so-called soft skills) that will always be with you and will help you thrive in any professional field.
   
• You will connect with other young people who, like you, want to do things to improve their environment.
   
• You will practice and improve your English in a real-world environment.

And above all, you're going to try. Without fear. Making mistakes is allowed here.

• To young people between 18 and 31 years old who want to make a positive impact on the world.
   
• For people who want to connect with their future and seek economic independence through entrepreneurship.
   
• For any student who wants to understand the benefits and opportunities offered by entrepreneurship, always in a safe space where it is allowed to make mistakes and where you don't need to know anything about companies and businesses to be able to move forward.
   
• For technology enthusiasts who want to experiment with their solution and explore the possibilities of turning it into a global project.
   
• To students in the humanities who want to transform their passion into their way of life, building a sustainable project.
   
• To digital nomads who want to explore the world carrying their business "on their backs" and enjoying remote work.
   
• To researchers who want to turn their discoveries into sustainable businesses.
   
• For entrepreneurs who want to validate whether their solutions can have an impact on society.

The Explorer program is 100% online in Germany, the United States, Latin America, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. In Spain, most of the experience is online, although there may be in-person activities at each center (Explorer Space). In any case, these are adaptable to a virtual environment.

How do you learn in Explorer?

• Through digital content aimed at completing challenges and work templates with which to shape your project; they will serve to validate your progress throughout the program.
   
• In Q&A sessions with experts who will help you complete your assigned weekly tasks.
   
• In online sessions with leading figures in the world of entrepreneurship who will inspire you with their stories of success and failure.
   
• In the online workspace, where you will find all the participants of your edition and where social, collaborative and peer learning is the key to everything.

• Validation of the idea with which you applied to the program: you will be able to verify if it can be turned into a viable business.
   
• Explorer Trip: an intensive immersion and training experience for one week in Europe for selected projects.
   
• Community: access to a global community of young innovators with more than 1000 participants in each edition, which will continue to grow with the addition of more universities in different countries around the world.
   
• Certificate of participation for projects that complete the program activities.
   
• Exclusive access to 100 places for the Santander X Prepare to Launch at Babson College.

1. Complete the application form with your information and details about your project, and be sure to explain your motivation for participating in the program in detail. If you are applying as a team, each team member must complete their application, and only the project leader needs to identify themselves as such . This is very important for the proper selection of your project.
    
2. Choose the institution based on your location: if you are in Spain, the nearest Explorer Space, Seville (US).
    
3. If you pass the selection filter, we will contact you via a notification.
    
4. Important: Your place and that of your team (if any) will be definitively confirmed when the person leading the project appears as admitted in their Santander X profile.
    
5. You're now an Explorer! From here, you'll receive all the instructions to start the program and you'll also have access to the online workspace where the other Explorers are located. Remember that if any team member isn't registered with the project, they won't have access to the training platform or receive their completion certificate, and of course, they won't be eligible to travel on the Explorer Trip.