INSPIRE, CREATE AND ELEVATE: Co-create the future through interdisciplinary entrepreneurship
The online course INSPIRE, CREATE AND ELEVATE offers an exciting journey of discovery and learning!
This international and multidisciplinary unique course is designed to train future entrepreneurs across diverse knowledge areas – food biotechnology, biomedicine, artificial intelligence, and the creative and cultural industries.
The main objectives of this online course are: inspire creative ideas, create interdisciplinary solutions and elevate entrepreneurial capacity.
With this course you can:
- Get new skills
Practical experience in interdisciplinary teamwork, entrepreneurial thinking, and solution design.
- Be eligible for an award competition
The team who delivers the best idea will be eligible to compete for a €2,000 award, to be divided among the winning team members.
- Be one of the best and get an invitation to the next phase
In addition, standout participants will be invited to the next phase of the ELEVATE project, where an acceleration program led by experts from four European universities will help to develop the most promising ideas.
- Join a unique opportunity
This new course is a unique opportunity to build your entrepreneurial capacity, grow your network, and kickstart your journey as an innovator.
Course Details
The online program will be offered in English, every Friday morning, from the 3rd of October to the 14th of November. The total contact time will be 20 hours, and will vary per week, depending on the schedule for the selected core areas.
The 20 hours will include a common component of 14 hours plus 6 elected hours. After an introduction to the course structure and the case challenges to all students, you will select two core topics (3 hours each) among Food Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Biomedicine, and Creative Industries (totaling 6 hours). This will be complemented by essential topics to all participants, including Technology Transfer, Entrepreneurship Tools and Competences, Mentoring, and Pitch Preparation.
By selecting core topics that complement their academic or professional background, participants from diverse fields will combine their strengths to apply creative thinking and problem-solving to a real-world challenge, making use of entrepreneurial skills and mentoring to develop, in a team, a solution to one case challenge. The teams will be selected after the first session and will include 3 to 5 members.
This course is provided by the ELEVATE consortium, supported by EIT Food and the EIT HEI Initiative, funded by the European Union. The project is coordinated by the Research and Innovation Office (RIO) at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Portugal), with the following partners: Aarhus University (Denmark), Università degli Studi di Trieste (Italy), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy), Food4Sustainability CoLAB (Portugal), TecmaFoods (Portugal), and MateraHub (Italy).