Date: M44

Topic: Business Orientation Training

Organized by: FHG

Goals: To equip students with abilities and skills to pursue future jobs and business opportunities by enhancing the students with entrepreneurial and business capacity. Wrap up of the Business Plan Writing Course and the SOCRATES entire project.

Activities: Presentation by all ESRs on their research results and business plans. Demonstrators using physical robots will be encouraged. Specific commercial exploitation plans will be prepared following discussions on how research can be continued and commercially exploited. Lectures on knowledge transfer, IPR, entrepreneurship, pitching, marketing and lean start-up approaches. Senior members of the consortium will contribute with additional talks on academic and industrial career options, and equal opportunities matters, including gender equality. Introduction to the Proposal Writing Course.