What?

The Smart-Up Lab 2020 is the 4th edition of an international e-Lab programme organised parallelly in Łódź (Poland), Naples (Italy) and Tartu (Estonia). It is organised in 2 editions: Spring (March-June) and Autumn (September-December) – each of them lasts about 3 months and will enable partipants to learn about ideation processes, business planning, entrepreneurship, value creation, market research, financing, product presentation, fast prototyping and many other issues connected with business creation. The project also assumes the creation of interdisciplinary project teams, that will develop their ideas and products under dedicated mentoring.

Who?

Students, PhD candidates, researchers, entrepreneurs from various disciplines: medicine, life sciences, economy, IT, technical disciplines or similar. You can already have your idea for innovation but not necessarily.

How?

The Autumn Edition starts in September and finishes in December.

Payment for participation in programme edition is 100 PLN.

Autumn edition of programme will be provided in English.
Most of the activities will take place online.

The course programme has been divided into 3 stages:
1. Introduction to entrepreneurship and team building: How to become an entrepreneur?; Integration meeting; FabLab Escape Game;Team building; Speed dating; Analysis of Client Needs, Market Analysis, Best tools and solutions for start-ups (e.g. Canva, Google Trends); Personal branding- online and offline;
2. Idea development: Design Thinking, Sources of funding for innovations and start-ups, Customer model canvas, value preposition, Law for start-ups. How to create your own company; Public appearances – how to pitch?; Promotion for startups; IP Protection/Patents
3. Product maturation: Project management; Introduction to prototyping; Risk analysis; Negotiations in business – how to talk with investors?; Pitching training, Rapid prototyping; Mentoring; Pitching in front of the investors

Each workshop will be followed by individual certificate for the participant.

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