Project duration: 01 January 2018 – 31 March 2019

Objective

The EIT Raw Materials PhD Summer School meets the need of creating new entrepreneurial education approaches to develop the entrepreneurial skills of professionals in the raw materials sector, in order to boost the competitiveness, growth and attractiveness of the European raw materials sector via radical innovation and entrepreneurship. This version will further roll out the Summer School internationally and implement e-learning elements.

The solution (technology)

DOCSUMCube offers a unique learning opportunity to PhD students who want to enrich their expertise in raw materials with entrepreneurial skills. Not only will they be able to position their research in the whole raw materials value chain, but at the same time they will be able to assess the economic relevance of their research, its scalability and the potential for turning it into a business. This tailor-made entrepreneurship programme is aimed at PhD students who are willing to work in a project-based team on actual current challenges in the circular economy put forward by raw material experts and industrial partners who are highly engaged in the conceptualisation of this programme.

Industrial partners may infuse ideas or projects into the program that they wish to see explored during the program. In this way industrial partners get to know highly skilled and motivated PhD students who may become future employees or colleagues. At the same time, PhD students get to know industrial partners in a completely different way than the more traditional research collaboration settings they are more familiar with and they also have the opportunity to provide solutions to real, complex industrial challenges.

Our experienced DOCSUMCube mentors, coaches and trainers not only bring in their expertise and experience but also offer a direct introduction to their professional network as such offering reciprocal network opportunities for all those involved. Let there be no doubt: the program initiates an ecosystem of learners consisting of PhD students, professionals and wider society and creates, as such, a solid basis to fully unleash the entrepreneurial potential of all those involved.

Partnership

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