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SUMMER ACADEMY – SLOVENIA

CITIES OF THE FUTURE THROUGH SERVICE INNOVATION

PROFILE

Would you like to start an innovative company providing services for Cities of the Future? Do you have an amazing idea that could contribute to higher quality of life in cities? Are you interested in addressing societal and environmental challenges (e.g. aging population, pollution or inefficient energy use in the cities)? Do you have ideas for encouraging healthier lifestyle, improving care services and processes, or addressing food
security challenges with the help of ICT?
If yes, Ljubljana Summer Academy ‘Cities of the Future through Service Innovation’ is an ideal stepping stone for you.
Work in an interdisciplinary team, incorporate design thinking and service design in your approach to societal and environmental challenges, test and perfect your idea, develop your business model and communication plan, explore funding opportunities and help build sustainable cities of the future with ICT solutions.
Join us in Ljubljana and start your (ad)venture.

Expertise

Service design, prototyping, ICT, creativity, and entrepreneurship.

Innovation themes

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Innovation themes

• New products and new markets
• Final ideas might be useful for cities across the globe, since they deal with urban issues in a generic manner
• Social innovation
• Service innovation focused on urban issue
• Technology and meaning driven innovation

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Subjects

Learning outcomes

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

• knowledge of entrepreneurial, marketing and financial strategies necessary to start a company.
• knowledge of creative and innovation processes.
• basic understanding of technology trends in various contexts.
• knowledge about idea research methodologies, innovation process, service design, user experience design, business model development, international marketing, communication strategy, technical implementation design

COGNITIVE SKILLS

• Ability to apply entrepreneurial and design thinking in innovation and business development processes.
• Ability to connect the use of ICT and creativity in the solving of (societal) problems.
• Ability to include service design in development processes and to estimate technological complexity of products

PRACTICAL AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

• Ability to to perform the role of designer/entrepreneur in a business development process critically and inventively.
• Ability to identify and evaluate opportunities and risks and adapt to occurring needs and challenges.
• Ability to perform on a professional level within an interdisciplinary team.

KEY- AND TRANSFERABLE SKILLS

• specific creative signature in his/her ideas and plans.
• problem-solving skills and capability to turn ideas into action.
• capability to convincingly communicate concepts in a verbal and visual way to different audiences.
• capabilities of using design, business and technology skills in aim of forming a startup.

Candidates Curriculum

REQUIREMENTS

• Practice-based approach
• Two-weeks course
• 60 hrs in total
• The main approach will be focus on ICT and Design

ROLES OF STAFF

• Lecturers
• Experts / Professionals from the field
• Mentors / Coaches

Location

University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Computer and Information Science
Večna pot 113
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia

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