| Code | 6217 |
|---|---|
| Academic Year | 2024-2025 |
| Programme type | Postgraduate |
| Area of interest | Sciences and technology |
| Place of teaching | Bologna |
| Director | Matteo Vignoli |
| Duration | 16 weeks |
| Cost | 17,04 euros |
| With selection | yes |
| Application deadline |
Mar 31, 2025 (Expired) |
| Enrolment start and end | April 7 - April 11 2025 |
- Main Department
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Department of Management - DiSA
- Overview
- Tech Forward is a program aimed at master's students from partner universities, who through an innovative approach, will work on identifying potential or new fields of application of technologies developed within the universities. The goal of Tech Forward is to stimulate an entrepreneurial approach in both students and researchers, while ensuring the exploitation of innovative technologies developed by the universities' research teams and their application to solve societal needs. Tech Forward includes initiatives to promote collaboration between national and international organizations and institutions, strengthening the strategic relationship with CERN Geneva. This includes seminars and networking activities to increase the visibility and international dimension of the educational offerings.
- Outcomes
- The goal of the program is to develop the entrepreneurial mindset of students with a Tech to Market approach consisting of the following steps:
• DISCOVER Understanding the technology and identifying opportunities. This first phase is aimed at a thorough understanding of the assigned technology, defining the capabilities of the technology, hypothesizing various potential applications in different fields, and verifying the initial feasibility of the most promising applications with the project's tech partner and experts in the application area.
• DESIGN Idea development and testing. This phase aims to validate conceptual solutions with users and experts in application markets, developing multiple prototypes and testing them with interested users to verify their application value and expected experience, testing and overcoming the most critical feasibility issues together with the tech partner.
• DEVELOP Prototyping of the solution. This last phase is aimed at developing the Proof of Concept, a functional prototype of the solution, designing the details of the solution and validating it with stakeholders. This phase also includes planning the implementation strategy, including economic sustainability considerations. - Number of participants
- Min: 24 - Max: 30
- Incompatibility with other programmes
The course is reserved for candidates who, at the registration deadline on March 28, possess the following qualifications and entry requirements:
• Enrolled in a master's degree program at the University of Bologna, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, the University of Ferrara or the University of Parma.
• Enrolled in a single-cycle master's degree, currently in the fourth and fifth years at the University of Bologna, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, the University of Ferrara or the University of Parma.
• Applicants must demonstrate proficiency in English, a prerequisite for admission.
• Applicants must demonstrate that they are authorized to travel internationally by providing a copy of the necessary documents according to the individual applicant's status (e.g., passport/visa/residency/student permit).- Selection criteria
- Admission to the program is subject to passing the two-stage selection procedure (qualifications and self- presentation video in English, group in interview English). The maximum score that can be awarded by the Examination Committee is 100. A minimum score of 60 must be achieved to pass the selection.
3. The selection process involves 2 stages:
a) written test, evaluation of the papers submitted by candidates at stagesubmission : evaluation of candidates' vitae, video presentation and qualifications, for which up to are available curriculum 50 points (minimum score 30/50);
b) group interview, for which up to 50 points are available (minimum score 30/50). Among other things, the purpose of the group interview is to evaluate the candidate in interaction with his/her peers. - Selection date
- Candidates deemed suitable will be asked to participate in a group assessment, to be held on April 1st, between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m, or on April 2nd between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m, in Via Ugo Foscolo 7, Bologna. Applicants will be notified by e-mail of the exact time of the group interview.
- Study plan
- Discover -ING-IND/35 - Matteo Vignoli
- Design - ICAR/13 - Giuseppe Mincolelli
- Develop - SECS-P/08 - Bernardo Balboni
- Project work -ING-IND/35 - Matteo Vignoli