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Helsinki Doctoral Training Centre
Jussi Autere, September 24, 2015
Doctoral Training at EIT Digital
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Europe is facing a significant innovation challenge…
…good ideas are too rarely turned into new products or services
excellent research base
creative talent
dynamic companies
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The mission of EIT Digital is to drive European leadership in ICT innovation for economic growth and quality of life.
Bringing together education, research and business
More than 130 partners Leading universities ICT companies Research institutes
Co-location Centres in 9 countries
EIT Digital is responding to this challenge
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Business Development Funnel
TechnologiesInnovation Activities
Startups
Business Strategies
ResearchResults
Talents
Cyber-Physical System
Future Cloud
Future Networking Solutions
Health & Wellbeing
Privacy, Security & Trust
Smart Energy Systems
Smart Spaces
Urban Life & Mobility
EuropeanSuccessStories
Selectfrom our ecosystem and beyond
Growthrough our ecosystem
SucceedIn world markets
By bringing together the leading corporations, the best research institutes and top universities in ICT with SMEs and startups, EIT Digital boosts innovation in 8 thematic areas.
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What is in it for you? –Aalto doctoral student
• Part of EIT Digital is a Doctoral School with a vision to create the future leaders of ICT industry
• The objective is to create entrepreneurial mind-set to doctoral students
Aalto School of Science strategy: “Research groups are well connected and work in collaboration with related industries, healthcare, and public administration.”
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Join an European wide research network, through
1. Four courses to learn essentials in starting new businesses. The courses can be taken in any node of ICT Labs with costs paid
2. Funding of expenses for 6 month visit to a foreign research institution during doctoral studies
3. Joining the research projects of EIT Digital
4. Using our Co-Location Centre (CLC) as your ”base camp”
Accelerate starting up a new businesses after doctoral studies
– Six month business development experience after submitting dissertation to pre-examination
– Starting up own business or– Helping a company start-up a
business– EIT Digital pays salary for the six
months
EIT Digital for doctoral students in practice
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EIT Digital Helsinki Co-Location Centre (CLC)
The CLC is the ”base camp” of the EIT Digital Doctoral Students
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EIT Digital Doctoral Training in SCIdoctoral curriculum
• The total amount of ECTS for doctoral studies is 40 to be completed the in 18 months
• During the 18 months the first 3 course modules of EIT Digital can be takenI: Raising AwarenessII: Opportunity RecognitionIII: Business Modeling
• The studies can give 15 ECTS (at Aalto University)• Last module: Growth & Harvest to be completed in later stage of studies• Supervising professor has the final decision power to accept the studies
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The next application round is opening tomorrow
Deadline November 27th, 2015
To qualify, you must be1. Doctoral student at Aalto University
or University of Helsinki2. In 1st or 2nd year in your doctoral
studies (calculated from the real start of studies)
3. Having your research area related to Research and Innovation areas of EIT Digital
4. Able to use our CLC as your base camp
More information can be found on our Web pages: (www.eitictlabs.eu/education/doctoral-school/)
How to join?
Health & Wellbeing - Prevention through the Quantified Self
Reduce the demand for expensive healthcare by detecting small physical and mental health issues early and avoiding larger health problems by suitable lifestyle interventions.
Increase the efficiency and reliability of industrial production systems and critical infrastructures by combining embedded systems, sensors, control systems, and data aggregation and analysis technology into smart systems-of-systems.
Cyber-Physical Systems – European Leadership in Production and Infrastructures
Contribute to the creation of an open European energy market by testing and deploying ICT solutions for decentralised power generation infrastructures and user-centric services for smart energy systems.
Smart Energy Systems – Defining Europe’s Future Energy Market
Turn ICT breakthroughs into new upscaled urban services to develop new mobility behaviours as well as citizen empowerment via the validation of new business models in the context of Smart Cities.
Future Urban Life & Mobility – Informed Citizens and Revolutionised Urban Mobility
Create comfortable experiences for users and efficient resource optimisation solutions for businesses via applying advanced ICT to everyday working and living environments.
Smart Spaces – Blending the Physical World and the Virtual World
Help to ensure the European lead in solutions and standards based on cost-effective as well as energy-efficient networking technology, which supports the traffic demands resulting from an ever increasing and variable set of applications.
Future Networking Solutions – Building Europe’s Communication Infrastructure of Tomorrow
Drive European competitiveness in the area of Cloud services and Big Data via the deployment of trusted Cloud technologies and Big Data Analytics Cloud infrastructures.
Future Cloud – A Secure Data and Service Infrastructure for Europe