The five day workshop encouraged students to work on biological research with the aim of applying it in urban areas, eventually building a prototype of an urban living element. It took place on the 13th through the 17th of January in Barcelona, Spain. The workshop was organized and developed by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Université de Lorraine, Vienna University of Economics and Business, ERSILIA Foundation, ECONICK, Plant-e, City Facilitators, BloxHub, and GreenTech Challenge. The workshop in IAAC was organized so UL, IAAC, and WU students meet face to face and work together on interdisciplinary entrepreneurial projects.
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Day 1
Day 2
Group Formation & Idea Exploration
Day 2
Day 3
Deliverables Production
Day 4
Practice Presentations, Feedback & Revisions
Day 4
Day 5
Final Presentations & Next Steps
Feedback from participants
Materials
Testimonials
“To work with the students was amazing because we discovered that at the beginning there were just 30 students and at the end there were five teams with the great ideas and I think this is only the beginning of the process. From our point of view as the trainers, we learned really a lot about entrepreneurship, and the way we can accelerate things, and make people work together and bring new ideas so it was really a wonderful experience.”
“I’ve had a lot of fun, met a lot of great, great people. I think the best thing about it was the huge progress we’ve made in one week. I did not see that coming, it was very fast, very efficient. I’m very proud of the progress we have made, and very much looking forward to work on the project with my team now.”
“I really loved it through and through and it’s funny to work finally with some other people because us biologist are all in our little corner and doing our things by ourselves, but [now] we are really experimenting with others and that’s the greatest thing of this program I think. And also the fact that it moved very quickly and now we all have our finished products that are working is a really good thing to see.”
“I really enjoyed it and liked it. I wasn’t really expecting us to gel so much and I feel like I’ve known these people for way more than five days and we have a good team, a good project, and we have a possible future company and even if we don’t get chosen for winning I actually think we’re still good enough to take it forward with other investors.”
“I think it’s a great program, full of different activities, full of learning, full of new friendships. I think it was a really great and successful project and I’m looking forward to the future and to where it leads us.”
“I met a lot of inspiring people, we got a lot of network contacts as well, and I think we established a great project that has potential to develop into just about anything.”
“I really like this course it’s a collaboration between three colleges which is the best part of it, we get to know other people from other backgrounds and get to work with them. Also the way the whole thing was organized very smoothly and the way we were working together through all the team building exercises and the group support was also really nice and helpful for us to come up with the project. I think with all the criticisms and all the feedbacks which we got from our mentors who were also very helpful and great in every way were really nice.”
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