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Workshop on design sprint held in Copenhagen

admin — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 15:38:00 +0000

A bunch of experts from business support organisations has gathered at Dansk Design Center to learn about design sprint, a five-step process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. An adopted technique, originally introduced by Google, will be applied during 7 Innovation Challenges across Europe to provide randomly selected SMEs with the possibility to improve their products in terms of user experiences (UX) within the ICT sector.

The so-called UX Challenges will be organised within the scope of the 200SMEchallenge project that is set to test the effects of challenges on the companies and the scalability of the whole initiative among Innovation Agencies in Europe.

The selection process of the SMEs willing to take part in the initiative is due to start in April 2020 with every partner introducing the application process in their respected regions. For more information on UX challenges organised in 2020 go to the section dedicated to this topic on our website.

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Kick off meeting held in Trento

admin — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 15:29:00 +0000

Experts from innovation agencies and business support organisations from seven EU countries have met in Trento to kick off the 200SMEchallenge project.

Representatives from Hub Innovazione Trentino (project coordinator), Business Oulu and University of Oulu, Dansk Design Centre, Espaitec, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Lithuanian Innovation Centre, Steinbeis Europa Zentrum and Tehnopol Tallinn have gathered at EIT Digital to share their experiences in project management and implementation and discuss the prospects of the pilot action that will have to be executed within the scope of the project. The consortium will pilot the UX Challenge innovation contests in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania and Spain and evaluate their impact on Small and Medium Enterprises.

During the kick off meeting partners gave gone through every single work package in detail and agreed on actions that need to be taken along with the time schedule to implement them. All project management issues and roles have been also sorted out to make the implementation of the project as smooth as possible.

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