FORMAT
Classroom
LOCATION
Espace Vernassa, Campus Saint-Jean d'Angély, Nice
PREREQUISITES
No
CAPACITY
Variable according to the workshops
ABOUT THIS MINOR
- Summary
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The course “Innovation & Design Thinking” is developed by UniCA Entreprendre, the entrepreneurial centre of Université Côte d'Azur.
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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.
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.UniCA Entrepreneurship proposes 4 targeted workshops. To validate the minor, the student must select 3 workshops from the selection:
- Design Thinking: Design thinking is an approach invented at Stanford University and currently adopted by the most innovative companies worldwide (Air Bnb, IBM, McKinsey, Apple, and many orders). Design thinking takes as its premise the notion that to innovate, designers must connect with people, understand their real needs, and explore the entire context of the project with a constant attitude of inquiry.
- Ai For Business: In a world awashed with ai-based solutions, this workshop aims at increasing awareness about opportunities and criticalities related to Artificial Intelligence. Students will receive an introduction to Machine Learning, Big data, and Automatic Natural Language Processing and analyse real business cases in order to understand how to leverage these technologies to build an innovative business opportunity.
- 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.
- Actions for Sustainability: Workshop focused on understanding today's and tomorrow's ecological and societal issues to develop sustainable, resilient solutions. Students will be introduced to tools to measure and diagnose its impact and propose impactful actions.
- Lecturers
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- Lena Felderhoff, Consultant and expert in ecological and social transition – independent
- Eric Guerci, Associate professor, Université Côte d’Azur
- Nelly Farrugia, Consultant and expert in Effectuation & ISMA360, independent
- Evaluation
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- To complete this minor, students must attend 3 workshops.
- The participation of students is required in the integrality of the workshop.
- An average of the 3 marks (between 0 and 20, coef. 1) greater than or equal to 10 is required to validate the minor.
- Please refer to each workshop evaluation modalities in the "Summary" tab.
SCHEDULE Fall 2025
- Spring 2025
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Choose 3 workshops out of 4. Your participation is required in the integrality of the workshop.
Mind the evaluation modalities and deadlines in the "Evaluation" tab above.
Date
Time slot
Workshops
Lecturer
Location
09/10/2025 9h00-13h00 Effectuation Nelly Farrugia Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa 16/10/2025 9h00-13h00 Effectuation Nelly Farrugia Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa 23/10/2025 9h00-13h00 Actions for Sustainability Lena Felderhoff Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa 06/11/2025 9h00-13h00 Actions for Sustainability Lena Felderhoff Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa 13/11/2025 9h00-13h00 Design Thinking Eric Guerci Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa 20/11/2025 9h00-13h00 Design Thinking Eric Guerci Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa 27/11/2025 9h00-13h00 AI For Business Eric Guerci Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa 04/12/2025 9h00-13h00 AI For Business Eric Guerci Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa