Student entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important topic for academics and practitioners alike. A major reason for that is the recognition that startups by students and recent university graduates have been found to be much more frequent than spin-offs by their faculty, and not of lower quality (Åstebro, Bazzazian & Braguinsky, 2012). According to the “Triple Helix” model (Etzkowitz et al., 2000) universities play a critical role in regional innovation systems and student’s entrepreneurial activities are found to be responsible of regional competitiveness (Guerrero et al., 2016). Jönköping University’s (JU) Solar Car Project (SCP) aims at fostering student entrepreneurship in an innovative pedagogical context. JU-SCP is a unique real-life and cross-functional collaborative educational project involving instructors and students from various Schools within JU (School of Engineering, International Business School, School of Education and Communication) as well as stakeholders from the wider community (e.g. industry and public sector organizations). The project provides the participating student with in-depth knowledge and skills in automotive engineering, entrepreneurship, marketing and project management as well as sustainability thinking, by combining theory with an innovative activity-based learning approach. Mastering JU-SCP requires the student to run and develop the entrepreneurial venture JU Solar Team (JUST) – the fundamental identity behind the SCP. Its core activity consists of: (i) constructing a competitive solar-powered electric car; (ii) venture marketing and finance; and (iii) planning and participating in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2019. The presentation describes the SCP/JUST and its major outputs, with a particular focus on innovative pedagogy.