Summer School 2024
Summer School 2024
"Digital entrepreneurship for participatory democracy"
The 2nd summer school in Portfolio Erasmus+ project entitled Digital entrepreneurship for participatory democracy was organized from 24th to 29th June, 2024 in Budapest, at the Faculty of Informatics, at ELTE.
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After the 1st successful implementation in 2023, organizers decided to further improve the methodology of the summer school, by combining outdoor sessions with frontal lectures and teamwork, and inviting more ecosystem actors from civil organizations, through urban development professional to respresentative of the industrial chamber.
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The first session was held out-of-the-classroom that allowed the partipants not only to get energized in the fresh air on the Kopaszi-gát, but also learn and observe different urban phenomena and patterns.
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In 2nd Summer School in the European Entrepreneurship Micro-minor of Portfolio Erasmus project both the teams of the students and the projects partners were working with incredible enthusiasm to create digital entrepreneurship projects for participatory democracy!
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From ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences, Anna Unger brought the history, importance, and most determinant cases of participatory democracy closer to the audience.
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Péter Dalos from BKK - Budapesti Közlekedési Központ gave a fantastic presentation about micromobility and civic engagement projects of Budapest and had the students develop their imagined urban development project virtually.
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Participants had the opportunity to learn from and with the Uccu Roma Informal Educational Foundation about sensitive issues and the history of Romani in the 8th district of Budapest!
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The outdoor and guest lecturer sessions enabled the exploring of social, urban, and environmental challenges!
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Colleagues from Portfolio project who supported the connection of different methods and theories in digital entrepreneurship and participatory democracy with their great presentations and interactive sessions: Olli-Pekka Mutanen and Pekka Töytäri from Aalto University, Jessica Lucchetta from Università di Trento, and Alberto Tejero Lopez, PhD from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid!
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Barbara Hegyi from ELTE talked about the ethical dilemmas and the social reponsibility of advanced technological developments that can enable participatory democracy projects. Miklos Gabor made the student teams vote about a participatory budget to simulate democratic decision-making.
Alvaro Pina Stranger from Université de Rennes not only introduced a complex stakeholder analysis related to our special topics but also challenged the teams to dig deeper into the potential effects of their planned projects.
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Monika Harsanyi from Budapesti Kereskedelmi és Iparkamara (Budapest Chamber for Trade and Industry) joined as a jury member and gave invaluable remarks to the teams on the further possible business aspects.
Internationally distributed student teams with multidisciplinary background paved the way towards new innovative digital solutions in participatory democracy with a cross-disciplinary approach.
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Students' teams performed extremely well despite the complex topic of 'Digital entrepreneurship for participatory democracy'.
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The incredible group of students was not only open to all the different unusual forms of learning - from the outdoor classes, through long walks, to thought-provoking interactive sessions - but reacted with creativity to all of the expectations through which they were challenged during Portfolio project summer school.
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More than 30 enthusiastic students from 5 universities - Université de Rennes I, Eötvös Loránd University, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Aalto University and Università di Trento - were sharing their ideas what challenges they want to tackle.
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The jury was amazed by the final projects of the internationally distributed and multidisciplinary teams that tackled the complex requirements of digital entrepreneurship for participatory democracy, spiced with the strong recommendation for embracing sensitive issues and social responsibility as an imperative!
Summer School 2024 in Budapest: Digital entrepreneurship for participatory democracy
A warm welcome to You, dear Student of the Summer School! We are excited to meet you in Budapest, to learn and grow together. We encourage you to immerse yourself in the experiences that the programme presents you: from the workshops and teamworking sessions, to the after-class events. Take the opportunity to meet people – students & professors alike – who share an interest with you: we are all here this week to tackle the question of how to democratize the use of technologies! And take the opportunity to meet Budapest, in its most colourful and vibrant season, when the days are long, the breeze is warm, and the Danube sparkles like a magical ribbon in the middle of the city.
Learn entrepreneurial strategies and skills based on European values!
The main aim of the Summer School is to develop your entrepreneurial and creativity skills, while planting the seeds of responsible management and European values in You, as future leaders and entrepreneurs.
You will learn about the most important factors of creating and developing responsible new tech projects and products, and you will elaborate on the positive social impact of such activities.
The lectures will embrace new value-based entrepreneurial strategies and more responsible and inclusive business models.
You will work in teams and through the analysis of the provided cases and with the support of the mentor teachers. By the end of the Summer School you will have to propose a new project or a solution for a systematic change: tools and technologies for digital empowerment, better access against digital poverty, data protection, avoid misinformation, react upon AI fears and advantages, against the widening digital gap, accelerated digital transformation and its effect on the democratic use of technologies.
Summer School 2023
Summer School 2023
"How to Democratize the use of new technologies"
The Summer School titled ‘How to democratize the use of new technologies?’ took place at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Faculty of Informatics from 25 -30th June, 2023.
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On Day 0, before the welcome reception, students were already discussing problems and possible solutions in relation to the democratic use of new technologies. The 1st summer school of the Portfolio Erasmus+ project was implemented with the cooperation in interconnected education of colleagues from Université de Rennes, UPM, Aalto University, Università di Trento, and ELTE.
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Active teamwork continued to tackle the challenges of democratizing the use of new technologies in the next 3 days in internationally distributed teams of enthusiastic students from 5 different universities while colleagues from partner institutions shared their knowledge and apply their unique methodologies to encourage students to unlock their creativity.
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The first day was run by ELTE: after the inspiring welcome speech of Dean of ELTE Faculty of Informatics, Tamás Kozsik, students got familiar with the main concept of systematic change and the role of positive social impact from the presentation of Barbara Hegyi, local Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education coordinator.
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Krisztina Balazs and Attila Menyhard, from ELTE Faculty of Law, gave an interesting overview of the legislation and regulation questions of new tech technologies.
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On the next days, students got familiar with different aspects and opportunities of value creation in sustainable business models from the presentation and interactive workshops of Pekka Töytäri and Olli-Pekka Mutanen, from Aalto University.
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Students got crucial building bricks to their projects from the interactive workshop of Lorenzo Angeli and Jessica Lucchetta, from Universitá di Trento on Uncovering hidden values in digital technologies. Alberto Tejero Lopez from UPM presented the most important elements of strategic business models through introducing determining cases from the tech sector.
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Alvaro Pina Stranger from Université de Rennes as project coordinator, highlighted the mission of the interconnected education, the goals and achievements of our partnership and the European values that we embrace.
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More than 20 students of Erasmus Portfolio Project successfully completed the summer school. It was an uplifting experience for the organizers to observe how committed participants from 5 universities, from different levels of education could enthusiastically work together in small teams to introduce a solution that can contribute to the democratic use of technology.
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On the last day of summer school, 6 student teams pitched their ideas for the just sharing of new technologies. The jury was assessing the systemic change that can be generated by the projects and the sustainability of the proposed activities, besides the regular business model elements.
The pitches gave insights into how our students imagined the next possible steps in democratizing the use of new technologies.
The aim of the Portfolio project consortia in the interconnected education was to form students' mindset to bear the responsibility and accessibility risks and challenges that come with the accelerated spreading of the new technologies.
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The 1st edition of the Portfolio Project Summer School was a great opportunity both for students and colleagues to exchange thoughts, concerns, and future plans on the possible ways how we can contribute to the just share and equal access to new technologies.
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