Master Summer School
Innovation & Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Manufacturing (IESMA): EIT Manufacturing Summer School
“Be the Next Manufacturing Entrepreneur”
The IESMA summer school offers a unique opportunity for developing innovation and entrepreneurship skills for the manufacturing world in an international setting. Participants are immersed in a stimulating learning by doing experience during which innovation experts and companies bring hand-on expertise by launching challenges, support team project works and share their experience, while international lecturers provide state-of-the-art knowledge.
The EITM IESMA Summer School will be the opportunity for master students and professionals alike to broaden their network with potential European partners and to boost their abilities and competencies to become entrepreneurs able to empower the sustainable manufacturing of the future.
The programme assessment is based on the evaluation of the final pitch developed on the industrial challenges they will work on and presented by teams of students in the last day of the summer school.
The 2023 Master Summer School will take from July 13th to August 3rd:
- 13-14 July: ON LINE
- 17-21 July: first week in DUBLIN – UCD campus
- 24-28 July: second week in DUBLIN – UCD campus
- 31 July – 3 August: ON LINE
The 2023 Programme Edition will be published in March. Participants can join on site for 1 week only or for 2 weeks. Please refer to 2022 programme for reference.
Programme structure During the 3 week-period the summer school schedule will alternate different types of learning experience such as company visits, lectures and workshops on key topics in the innovation & entrepreneurship fields, team working on industrial challenges.
Digital nuggets on basics of innovation & entrepreneurship will be made available before the starting of the school to make sure all participants can enjoy and complete successfully the proposed activities.Main topics touched during the summer school are:
• IPR management;
• Design thinking for manufacturing and inclusive design for sustainable manufacturing
• Human-machine interaction;
• Digital maturity assessment;
• Digital strategies;
• Digital entrepreneurship;
• Manufacturing innovationCompany visits are organized in:
• COMAU
• Whirlpool
• MADE
(transportation from the summer school location to the visiting sites is organized by the summer school organization).To apply to the EITM IESMA Summer School, you are required to upload the following documents:
• Academic qualification certificate (bachelor of science degree)
• Curriculum Vitae including details on your academic and professional career using preferably the Europass format (https://europa.eu/europass/en/create-europass-cv)
• English language proficiency certificate (English language proficiency test such as TOEFL or IELTS, successful completion of previous education in English, completion of ESL programme, completion of other English language courses, etc.).
• A colour copy of your either National ID (only for EU/EFTA students) or passport
PLEASE NOTE:
Applications that do not submit all documents will not be processed.*Applications with fraudulent documents will be rejected.
- Tuition fees Fee Early bird tuition fees (before 15th of April):
– Main fee 1000 €
– Students from the universities belonging to the EITM master school or to the IESMA organization consortium 600 €
– Professionals from the EIT Manufacturing partners 600 €
Students from the RIS countries 600 € - Regular tuition fees:
– Main fee : 1200 €
– Students from the universities belonging to the EITM master school or to the IESMA organization consortium 800 €
– Professionals from the EIT Manufacturing partners 800 €
– Students from the RIS countries 800 €
- Tuition fees Fee Early bird tuition fees (before 15th of April):
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