EIT ICT Labs Education Program

1. EIT ICT Labs Education Program Maurizio Marchese GertGuri

2. EIT ICT Labs • ICT innovation is driving transformations in society to improve quality of life • Rapid disruptive ICT innovation is a key driver in the creation of a smart mobile world • EIT ICT Labs is one of the Knowledge and Innovation Community of the European Institute of Innovation & Technology

3. Eindhoven Berlin Helsinki Paris Stockholm Trento EIT ICT Labs Nodes: bringing together Education, Research and Business

4. X-Europe Outreach Programme • Provide opportunities for students and professors in EIT-labelled education programmes • Activate start-ups in by building strong ties to innovation programmes and contests • Collaborate with key people: faculty members, researchers, innovation ecosystem actors • Organize events that are linked to EIT ICT Labs activities • Create awareness of EIT and its best practices

5. Outreach Program:Bilateral Partnerships • Benefits offered to non EIT ICT Labs’ universities • Opportunities to researchers to visit EIT ICT Labs partners/nodes for short periods • Opportunities to be guest lecturers at summer schools • Cooperation with action line leaders and business partners in mutually relevant projects • Benefits offered to students at the non EIT ICT Labs’ universities • Involve non EIT ICT Labs’ universities in the EIT ICT Labs programmes

6. Education programmes Kick-off 2012 Summer Schools and Mobility programmes: Students travel to kick-off events and summer schools to work on innovation & entrepreneurship. PhD MSc Education programmes Master School Doctoral School • Master School: 2-year programme leading to a double Master's degree with mandatory Innovation & Entrepreneurship Minor Summer Schools anS=d EIT ICT Labs Doctoral School: Offering Doctoral students practical training and experience in a business development environment. Summer School Eindhoven 2013

7. EIT-ICT Labs Master School EIT ICT Labs Master Programs ww.masterschool.eitictlabs.eu • Service Design and Engineering • Security and Privacy • Internet Technologies and Architectures • Embedded Systems • Human Computer Interactions • Digital Media • Distributed System and Services Characteristics: • Strong technical entrepreneurial education • Geographical mobility • Industry/research institutes internships

8. Need for Technical Entrepreneurs

9. The EIT ICTLabs Master School The whole picture Thematically oriented and industry based thesis work I&E Thesis Technical Specialization with thematic relevance Second year in University Y at Node B Exit point specialization + thesis Internship Centrally organized Summer Program with I&E and thematic focus Mobility phase Electives Business Development Lab Technical Common Base First year in University X at Node A Entry point Kicoff Basic I&E Course Mentorship program

10. What makes EIT ICT Labs Master Schooldifferent? Minor thesis strongly linked to the technical thesis. 1. Geographical mobility 2. A business minor standardizedacross all universities • Summer program Business Development Labs Basics of Innovation & Entrepreneurship

11. What makes EIT ICT Labs Master Schooldifferent? 3. Personal industrial relationships including Mentorship and Internships programs with EIT ICT Labs Industrial and Institute Partners

12. EIT-ICT-Labs Summer Schools • Master Program Summer School as part of the (I&E) education • Services and Design for Quality of Life, Trento22/07-4/8/2013 • Wellbeing Innovation Camp 2013, Eindhoven 11/08-23/08/2013 • The EIT ICT Labs Summer Schools 2014 • Cyber-Physical Systems (Trento) • Future Cloud (Helsinki) • Future Networking Solutions (Stockholm) • Health & Wellbeing (Eindhoven) • Privacy &Security (Trento) • Smart Energy Systems (Karlsruhe) • Smart Spaces (Helsinki) • Urban Life and Mobility (Nice)

13. Outreach in education • Students from non EIT ICT Labs Partner Universities can benefit from the EIT ICT Labs Educationprogrammes in twoways: • Participating in subsetsof EIT ICT Labseducationalactivities • Joining an EIT ICT Labs’ University and attending the full EIT ICT Labs programmes By combiningtheseschemes, EIT ICT Labs wantstoestablish fruitful bi-lateral partnerships withtarget non-partner universities

14. Participatingin subsets of EIT ICT Labs’ educational activities • Potential Benefits • Participation in EIT ICT Labs summer and winter schools • 3-6 months study visits • taking subsets of EIT ICT Labs programmes courses (assuming that courses can be accounted for locally) • focusing on thesis projects and internships • hosted by the EIT ICT Labs CLCs

15. Joining an EIT ICT Labs’ University and attendingthe full EIT ICT Labs programmes • Benefits • Unique combination of state-of-the-art technical and business courses in innovation and entrepreneurship • Geographical mobility • Mentorship and Internship programmes with top ICT companies • Fully sponsored team-building activities across programmes and universities, e.g. Kick-off and summer schools • Scholarship schemes

16. EIT ICT LabsDoctoral School The EIT ICT Labs Doctoral School on ICT Innovation features three specific elements: • Hands-on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education consisting of two phases; Business Competence phase followed by a Business Development Experience • Mobility; six months of geographical mobility and six months of organizational mobility • Thematic alignment of the I&E thesis to the innovation areas of EIT ICT Labs

17. EIT ICT Labs Doctoral School UNITN case

18. Further information at: www.masterschool.eitictlabs.eu

19. ThankYou Questionsaremorethanwelcomed Contactusat: gert.guri@trentorise.eu maurizio.marchese@unitn.it