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Open Innovation

Aim

This line of action pursue the creation of an ecosystem of innovation in training aimed to the improvement of the employability where new products and training services with real users could be tasted.

Description:

The living lab of social innovation of the INNOVA LABORA-UV Chair is conceived as a community of open innovation that gathers academy, institutions and companies to:

  • support an innovative, international and connected training with the productive and territorial environment.
  • analyse the innovative practices in the field of the training aimed at employment
  • to boost some of the following elements:
  1. the university campus as an opened learning space where new products and training services with real users could be tasted.
  2. the prospective tools considered:
  • Ideas Bank: The aim of this initiative is to offer the university community a platform to express freely all your ideas to improve the employment opportunities of the university graduates around certain strategic lines related to the aims of the Chair.
  1. the creation of formative projects of social importance, attracting and connecting innovators belonging to the university, companies and institutions with the training of the students:
  • InnoTalks “Knowledge and Employment”: Informal debate meetings among students with business leaders to know their opinion about topics of their interest and to value the initiatives of open innovation of faculties and institutions and associated research centres to improve the opportunities of employability of the graduated [Link to the InnoTalks project's file]
  • “Waving Ideas” Programme: This programme offers to the students of the Universitat de València extracurricular training activities for the acquisition of transversal competences in innovation. This programme makes available to the learning process the adequate facilities and the collaboration of different university services to allow the appropriate involvement of the students of the Universitat de València in national and international talent contests and competitions and high-level strategy with criteria of public attendance and advertising, integrating for it the offers, grants and subsidies offered.