**Here’s an overview of the contents:**

- How to create a great in-person first impression
- The structure of a winning cover letter
- Interviews structure and preparation technique

**Teaching and Assessment:**

- Teaching: 90’ online interactive sessions with practical examples and additional resources
- Learning: hands on activities to be carried out in class and at home
- Assessment: final assignment (cover letter)

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Motivation letter is a personal statement and it might include a brief introduction of yourself, explanation why are you interested in the learning opportunity you are applying to, any relevant experience or skills that you have, your goals and how this opportunity will help you achieve them, This document should not be more than 400 words.

Motivation Letter

University of Trento

Pitch Yourself

Inter-personal skills

Intra-personal skills

**Course Content Summary**  

- Defining challenges  

- Different kinds of challenges  

- Creativity and collaboration  

- The helicopter view  

- The goal: develop a useful, innovative and feasible project

Challenge Basics

Critical and innovative thinking

Companies can build competitive advantages and resilience by developing more sustainable business models (e.g. the sharing economy) and using new technologies (e.g. internet of things or AI).

We will have an overview of what sustainability in business means and entails, analyse and debate more in depth a couple of sectors, and work in groups to explore business opportunities in sustainability.

The course will have In this 6 modules and a short individual post assignment:

- Introduction: sustainability in business
- Analysis of an example sector (1): mobility
- Regulation, technology and the responsible consumer
- Analysis of an example sector (2): health
- Team work:
- Choose and analyse sector
- Groups presentations:
- Identify and describe a sustainable startup business opportunity
- driven by technology
- Post assignment: individual work

Technology and Innovation in Business Sustainability

Energy and sustainability

Entrepreneurship, technology and innovation

**Teaching Methods**

A large autonomy is given to the students to organise and achieve their goals.

Students will work in small teams, with each team assigned to a challenge.

Teams will identify and address a challenge/question in the context of their assigned case, such as considering alternate business models or analysing go-to-market scenarios. Students need to ground their reflections by exploring some specific areas: business environment, competition, suppliers, partners, environmental and sustainability issues, etc, both deductively (i.e., through desk research) and inductively (i.e., through field work) as appropriate.

To address their challenge/question, the students will cover the 4 generic steps of an explorative business analysis:

• Identification of the relevant challenge/question,

• Acquisition of applicable concepts/methods/tools,

• Observations (data collection) on a selected part of the case,

• Analysis and interpretation.

Students’ supervision comprises:

• A few group sessions to introduce and detail the assignments, and help students identify the challenges/questions,

• 1-to-many mentoring sessions, where teams will be coached in completing their case study, and progress will be monitored,

• A final oral defence.

Each student will be in charge of a part of the group’s delivery, with specific “roles” defined during the mentoring sessions.

The companies responsible for the case will contribute to supervision, provide data/contacts, participate in the oral defence and/or offer other meeting occasions to ensure rooting of the business assignment in real life.

While the course foresees several (4-5) plenary lectures covering topics that are of general use to all students, most of the time will be dedicated to group mentoring.

**Course Goals and Learning Objectives**

After completion of the I&E Studies course, students should…

• … have the ability to apply, synthesise, and evaluate prior I&E learning within a specific innovation or entrepreneurial project setting and a specific innovation area.

• … have the ability to conduct a business analysis, make decisions and formulate recommendations or justify actions in a real environment.

• … have the ability to choose and apply relevant concepts/methods and/or tools and collect relevant data for conducting a business analysis and making decisions in a real environment.

• … have the ability to produce a professional writing on a business analysis topic.

• … have the ability to apply concepts, methods and tools pertaining to identifying and assessing the impact/value of a technology in an industry, market and/or organisation and the innovation / business opportunities it creates.

• … have the ability to reflect critically on issues related to the development of ICT solutions, and their potential pitfalls due to market and/or social reasons.

• … have developed a sense of "out of the box thinking" and creative approaches to problem solving, even in contexts that would otherwise suggest a technical solution.

• … have the ability to make value and ethical judgements about the development of technological and business solutions.

• … have the ability to work as a team with other students to complement each other's competences and perspectives.

I&E Studies

Orienteering is an outdoor sport where the aim is to move between checkpoints marked on a special orienteering map. However, there is no set itinerary. The fun comes from trying to find the best way to go. In competitive orienteering, the challenge is to complete the course in the quickest time possible.

Park World Tour Italy (PWT) is a non-profit sports association founded in 2007. Its aim is to promote the diffusion, coordination and practice, also at an educational level of orienteering. In recent years, PWT has begun to work on the preparation of high-level athletes and on the development of an innovative vision of orienteering. This new vision takes into account changes in society and leverages the many skills and technical competences present within the association.

Orienteering is a niche sport in Italy: there are less than 7000 members of the orienteering Italian federation and PWT is trying to explore its potential that is not yet fully explored. How can an orienteering sport club use its resources and competences to generate new societal value?

Orienteering: Unlocking New Potential for a Niche Sport Club

The challenge is to find solutions to lead the next revolution in sustainable eating, by transforming the culinary landscape with MOPUR, a groundbreaking vegetarian alternative to meat. Created from gluten and legumes and enriched with the natural fermentation of Lactobacillus plantarum and Saccharomyces cerevisiae, MOPUR offers a delicious, eco-friendly solution to high carbon footprints and meat consumption. In this challenge, we will delve into the innovative production technology of MOPUR, explore current market, and understand the complexities of food logistics, boost creativity to develop new food preparations that move beyond traditional salami-like products and focus on marketing messages that resonate with modern consumers and drive the adoption of sustainable eating habits.

New ideas to revolutionize the Future of Plant-Based food

Be a trailblazer in the world of plant-based foods!

Circular economy

“If you can’t describe your business model in ten words or fewer, you don’t have a business model.” – Guy Kawasaki

“Whatever it is, every idea you present must be something you could get across easily at a cocktail party with strangers. If only aficionados of your industry can understand what you're saying, you've blown it.” – Jack Welch

“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.”–  Lee Iacocca

Communicating Innovation

The challenge aims to find sustainability and green economy solutions using the technology of photobioreactors (PBRs). The students will try to solve the challenge by using techniques drawn from future studies. 

Since PBRs are versatile technologies, learners will go through two divergent phases: on the first, learners will decide what field of application (commercial sector, or segment of industry) they want to explore for PBRs; on the second, learners will use scenarios to explore how their chosen application field could evolve in a medium-term future. In practice, the scenarios that students produce will be descriptions of hypothetical worlds where PBRs have different roles and prominences in the respective fields of application. Once learners decide on a scenario, they will close the challenge by proposing a concept for a product that ALOS could develop within that scenario. 

The students will learn to assess the potential of a technology critically, and use tools of thought to experience a less classic way of doing entrepreneurship in the field of Innovation and Technology, orienting it to responsible innovation and sustainability.

Back to the Future

It is commonly agreed today that companies’ purpose should not only be to generate profits but also to contribute to a sustainable development that protects the environment and generates some level of positive social impact for their stakeholders and the societies they operate in.

During this course, we will explore how companies, investors and society can make this happen by promoting, measuring and reporting their performance and levels of impact, preventing practices such as greenwashing and responding to criticism, sometimes partly justified, of it lacking substance or being at the origin of the next investment bubble.

Social Impact Investing

The TRent is an institutional portal created by Opera Universitaria in 2021 to support students in the delicate phase of choosing accommodation, facilitating the meeting of students and property owners, and the demand and supply of housing in Trento and Rovereto. It's a sort of virtual bulletin board that presents a diverse, updated offer of housing solutions with clear and detailed information. At the same time, it gives property owners the opportunity to showcase their offerings in a modern, intuitive, and easy-to-navigate "storefront," available in both Italian and English.

Opera Universitaria oversees the correct use of the portal through a sample check of the data entered during registration, as well as all the information that is added. It also verifies that the announced property actually corresponds to an address and has the described amenities. This check is exclusively done for ads placed by private owners, who are marked with the OU stamp.

PORTAL STATISTICS

Approximately 3,000 registered students, 160 landlords with their own properties (private owners, property managers, intermediaries, university colleges), about a hundred accommodations listed, 150 available accommodations, and around 19,000 users who, in the last 6 months alone, have interacted with the portal, mainly from Italy but also from Spain, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, and Brazil.

CHALLENGE GOALS:

The primary goal is to elevate awareness of TRent among students and fortify its presence in the accommodation search realm. Simultaneously, a key objective should be to augment the student enrollment figures and work towards expanding the platform array of listings.

Trento Housing Community

Resilient communities

One of the primary objectives of this module is to shift the narrative from the conventional understanding of creativity as an individual endeavor to a more nuanced perspective that recognizes the power and potential of collaborative efforts. By doing so, participants will develop a profound understanding of how group dynamics, team interactions, and shared perspectives contribute to the emergence of innovative ideas and solutions.

Content summary:

- Introduction to the creative process
- Team and collective creativity
- Organisational mechanisms to support collective creativity
- Leading for creativity

Creativity and Collective Creativity in Organizations

The future of international cooperation relies on developing new forms of active involvement of EU citizens and institutions, as much as methods that allow communities to innovate their socio-technical approach to resources and their overall distribution. Specifically, the global economic situation and the evolution of the geopolitical arena stimulate small and medium organizations to situate themselves differently than in the past, both in terms of external accountability and internal goal-setting. These changes are also facing our challenge provider Mazingira.org, a small NGO working on environmental protection and social inclusion in Italia and Tanzania. After a long experience in the implementation of SDGs with participatory and community activities, Mazingira is searching for innovative ways to involve citizens and institutions and has given us the spring for this challenge. In accordance with this view, our participants will discuss the aims of international cooperation with the support of experts and teamchers, and explore the topic adopting a future-oriented and culturally-informed perspective.

Engaging with the Future

## The Challenge

Learners will work together to acquire skills and competencies related to the physiopathological basis of the reproductive system, infertility, and influence of lifestyle on reproductive health. The ultimate goal is to integrate and apply this knowledge in identifying and solving real problems in the area through the implementation of multicultural working groups. During this challenge, priority will be given to innovative and experimental teaching models, such as challenge-based in a blended learning approach that combines virtual and face-to-face mobility

## Impact

The participants will develop cross-cutting and transdisciplinary knowledge in reproductive health lifestyle. This challenge will also promote new forms of international mobility that allow an increase in the number of individuals with an international mobility experience in higher education, while also promoting collaborative and cooperative work skills through the experience of active teaching and learning methodologies. This intensive blended program is aligned with the strategic development plan of the Department of Medical Sciences, within the scope of its internationalization policy, as well as with the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, namely for Good Health and Well-being (Goal 3), Quality Education (Goal 4), Gender Equality (Goal 5), and Reduced Inequalities (Goal 10).

Member university

University of Trento

Member university

University of Trento

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