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Driving Change and Capacity Building Towards Innovative, Entrepreneurial Universities

CS INNO HUB – the place and the space where students can validate and start implementing entrepreneurial ideas

Structures, supporting entrepreneurship and innovation, operating within universities, can contribute a lot to the development of the entrepreneurial profile of a higher educational institution. Such units can offer tailored services to enable researchers and students in bringing their ideas to the market. To this end, with the support received under the EIT HEI Initiative and …

The IVAP EIT HEI Initiative workshop also had a representative from InnoChange project

Representatives of projects selected for funding as a part of the EIT HEI Initiative calls were invited to Prague to take part in the 2023 IVAP workshop lasting from May 31 to June 1, 2023. This year’s IVAP Workshop was primarily aimed to support consortia which have succeeded in the third call of the EIT HEI Initiative. At the …

UPJŠ TRAINING PROGRAM From idea to business (Innovation & Entrepreneurship Course/ I&E)

In the summer semester of the 2022/2023, the training program From Idea to Entrepreneurship (Creativity, Responsibility, Entrepreneurship) took place within the EIT-Digital – InnoChange project. The main aim of the program was forming an entrepreneurial mindset and creativity of students. Due to the specifically designed tasks on creativity and individual challenges, students became familiar with …

Commissioner Gabriel meets the InnoChange project

Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner responsible for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, met representatives of the IGLO network, an informal network of Brussels-based non-profit R&D Liaison Offices, in Brussels on 28 February 2023. The aim of IGLO is to facilitate and enhance the interaction, information exchange and co-operation between the national research systems and the European …

Barbara Hegyi at OpenU Conference in Paris

Barbara Hegyi, leader of entrepreneurial education within the InnoChange Project, introduced her experimental conclusions of a new online asynchronous inter-university course at the OpenU Conference in Paris. The unique patterns of positioning the new subject among its internal and external competitors are created from the combination of theoretical and methodological considerations, while also focusing on the students’ …

DEMO DAY 9 June 2022

Over the course of the Demo Day the participants presented their ideas and projects in which they were involved. The Demo Day was held online, on the Zoom platform, where the participants enjoyed the experience with events both on the Main Room and in assigned virtual rooms, along with their mentors and judges. The Jury consisting up …

Towards the implementation of the third-generation research university model – innovation capacity building at Central and Eastern European universities

On the 27th of April, 2022, the leadership of five European universities met at the EIT Digital Budapest Co-Location Centre on the Campus of Eötvös Loránd University as part of one of the pilot projects launched within the EIT (European Institute of Innovation and Technology) HEI Initiative to unlock the innovation potential of higher education …

Rectors’ Conference

It is our pleasure to announce that there is a forthcoming Rectors’ Conference taking place on the 27th of April 2022, organised within the “InnoChange: Driving Change and Capacity Building Towards Innovative, Entrepreneurial Universities” project. The Rectors´ Conference will address the questions concerning the enhancement of the entrepreneurial and innovation capacity of participating partners and …

InnoHUB at BBU – Imagine Better!

As part of the InnoChange project’s second phase activities, Babeș-Bolyai University established an Innovation Hub. InnoHUB will support students to generate and successfully deploy innovative solutions that address social and economic needs and challenges capitalising on the opportunities offered by digital technologies. Students’ innovative activities are facilitated by the InnoHUB team and supported by a …

Asynchronous online basic entrepreneurship course for all ELTE students

Would you like to know how you can turn problems into opportunities?Are you interested in creating innovative products or solutions or just innovating at your company? Did you ever detect why promising ideas fail? Do you think that the most important solutions have to consider their social impact, either? If your answer is yes to …

What was the InnoChange online Hackathon about?

The Innochange Online Hackathon took place on the 3rd and 4th of December, it reunited 25 participating students and 20 mentors with technical expertise, and vast experience in product and business development. The five teams tried to solve the challenges provided by GE: PatReport PatInform PatCoaching Pat Connect PatGamify PatNavigator Over the course of the …

Students’ registration Creativity, responsibility and entrepreneurship course, ELTE-IK Innovation & Entrepreneurship Course (I&E)

If you are an ELTE student and want to be notified about the Creativity, responsibility and entrepreneurship course, please give your name, e-mail address, Neptun code, name of (main) ELTE Faculty below. By filling in the form you also request taking the course in the Neptun system. If you are NOT an ELTE student, please fill out this form. …

IVAP Workshop 5 – 6 July, 2022 Barcelona

The EIT’s HEI Initiative 2022 Innovation Vision Action Plan (IVAP) Workshop  occurred from July 5-6th in Barcelona, Spain at the World Trade Centre. The Workshop was the first in-person event of the Initiative and brought together project members from Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 as well as EIT HEI Initiative staff with 220+ attendees. The …