Minor Innovation and Design Thinking

Coordinated by: Nicolas Bruno, Head of Pedagogy, Innovation Centre for Entrepreneurship (ICE), Université Côte d'Azur
 

FORMAT

Classroom

LOCATION

Espace Vernassa, Campus Saint-Jean d'Angély, Nice

PREREQUISITES

No

CAPACITY

Variable according to the workshops

 

ABOUT THIS MINOR

Summary

​​​The course “Innovation & Design Thinking” is developed by the Innovation Centre for Entrepreneurship (ICE), of Université Côte d'Azur.

Learning Outcomes

The objective is to enable students to acquire a mindset geared towards innovation and entrepreneurship and to develop various cross-disciplinary skills such as critical thinking, cross-functional collaboration, uncertainty management and creativity. 
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​Students will learn how to approach innovation challenges typically faced by companies and organizations. In addition, the course offers a first approach to the skills needed to develop an entrepreneurial project.   

​​​The topic for this Spring 2024 semester: ​Discover You

​​Understanding people to develop a project, an idea, or a solution. Under this broad theme, students will be able to take part in a number of workshops designed to help them understand their natural skills and acquire the tools they need to help them develop their studies, career or personal project;  
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​Identify needs and propose appropriate solutions. Through this theme, students are invited to discover cross-disciplinary skills and tools that will enable them to target and identify a need or demand and propose an appropriate solution in line with current societal issues.
 
To validate the minor, the student must attend 2 workshops among the 3 proposed below. Each workshop lasts from 8 to 10 hours.​​ 

  • ​Design Thinking - An introduction to Design Thinking, an innovation process based on the notion that to innovate, you need to connect with people, understand the real needs of the user and explore the whole context of the project with a constant attitude of research.
  • Effectuation - Discover entrepreneurship through the prism of effectuation theory. This is a way of thinking used to build successful businesses by imagining the world as a set of opportunities. Start with the means available to achieve affordable goals. 
  • Find Your Way (Ipséité) - A workshop to enable students to refine their knowledge of themselves, to affirm their uniqueness, "to assume their difference in order to make a difference", but also to sharpen their understanding of the world around them, to become aware of the issues at stake today and how they can positively influence it.​​ 
Lecturers
  • Emmanuel Lançon - Consultant and expert in Design Thinking, independent
  • Nelly Farrugia - Consultant and expert in Effectuation & ISMA360, independent  
Evaluation
  • To complete this minor, students must attend the Find Your Way (Ipséité) workshop and either Design Thinking workshop or Effectuation workshop.
  • The participation of students is required in the integrality of the workshop. 
  • An average of the 2 marks (between 0 and 20, coef. 1) greater than or equal to 10 is required to validate the minor.

SCHEDULE (last update 29/01/24)

Mind the evaluation modalities and deadlines in the "Evaluation" tab above.
 

Spring 2024

Date

Time slot

Workshops

Lecturer

Location

29/02/2024 9h00-13h00 Effectuation  Design Thinking Nelly Farrugia  Emmanuel Lançon  Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa
7/03/2024 9h00-13h00 Effectuation  Nelly Farrugia  Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa
14/03/2024 9h00-13h00 Design Thinking Emmanuel Lançon  Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa
21/03/2024 9h00-13h00 Find Your Way (Ipséité) Effectuation  Nelly Farrugia  Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa
28/03/2024 9h00-13h00 Design Thinking  Find Your Way (Ipséité)  Emmanuel Lançon  Nelly Farrugia  Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa
4/04/2024 9h00-13h00 Find Your Way (Ipséité)  Nelly Farrugia  Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa
11/04/2024 9h00-13h00 Find Your Way (Ipséité)  Nelly Farrugia  Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa
18/04/2024 9h00-13h00 Find Your Way (Ipséité)  Nelly Farrugia  Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa
Fall 2023

Date

Time slot

Workshops

Lecturer

Location

12/10/2023 9h00-13h00 Design Thinking Eric Guerci Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa
19/10/2023 9h00-13h00 Design Thinking Eric Guerci Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa
26/10/2023 9h00-12h00 Actions for Sustainability Lena Felderhoff  Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa
09/11/2023 9h00-12h00 Actions for Sustainability Lena Felderhoff  Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa
16/11/2023 9h00-13h00 AI for Business Eric Guerci Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa
23/11/2023 9h00-13h00 AI for Business Eric Guerci Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa
30/11/2023 9h00-13h00 Entrepreneurship Olga Pabion Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa
07/12/2023 9h00-13h00 Entrepreneurship Olga Pabion Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa
14/12/2023 9h00-11h00 Actions for Sustainability Lena Felderhoff  Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa