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 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.
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;
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
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- Emmanuel Lançon - Consultant and expert in Design Thinking, independent
- Nelly Farrugia - Consultant and expert in Effectuation & ISMA360, independent
- Evaluation
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- To complete this minor, students must attend the Find Your Way workshop and either Design Thinking or Effectuation.
- 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
Mind the evaluation modalities and deadlines in the "Evaluation" tab above.
- Fall 2023
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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 - Spring 2024
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Date
Time slot
Workshops
Lecturer
Location
29/02/2024 9h00-13h00 Design Thinking Emmanuel Lançon Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa 7/03/2024 9h00-13h00 Design Thinking Emmanuel Lançon Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa 14/03/2024 9h00-13h00 Find Your Way (Ipséité) Nelly Farrugia Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa 21/03/2024 9h00-13h00 Find Your Way (Ipséité) Nelly Farrugia Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa 28/03/2024 9h00-13h00 Find Your Way (Ipséité) 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 Effectuation Nelly Farrugia Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa 18/04/2024 9h00-13h00 Effectuation Nelly Farrugia Campus St Jean d'Angély, Espace Vernassa