Innovation & Design Thinking

• Human Centered Design Thinking (HCDT) –innovation method originally defined by the consulting company IDEO applied to a real existing problem.
• Local real-life company mission
• Coach with 10-years of international consulting experience.
• Extracurricular cultural activities every day.

Program assessment:
1. HCDT diary (individual assignment): A 2-page report (1000 words max) on my learning journey as a design thinking consultant throughout the summer school.
2. Team presentation (Day 5, team assignment) : Oral presentation to the company (documented in form of a ppt presentation).

Course leader

Sabine Mueller PhD is a lecturer specialised in education and research on entrepreneurship, leadership and creativity for more than 15 years. As a Gestalt-therapist and personal development trainer, she combines theory and practice in her teaching.

Target group

Prerequisites:
• Undergraduate and postgraduate students from any discipline.
• Open mindedness towards innovative learning approaches and action learning.
• Solid English language level and sufficient social skills to connect with students from different countries and disciplines.
• A basic level of personal maturity to embrace the level of introspection and personal development that is part of the program

Course aim

There is no problem without a context! If we take the time and effort to explore it, the real problem will appear together with the best possible solution/s. Human Centered Design Thinking (HCDT) is an innovation method that makes an essential ‘detour’ called EMPATHY to explore the needs of people involved in a problem, or capable of providing inspiration to solve the problem before jumping to the solution of the problem. During this program “Human Centered Design Thinking” will be applied to a local real-life company mission.

Credits info

4 EC
4 ECTS for 25 teaching hours – 5 hours per day

Fee info

EUR 160: Administrative fees.
EUR 720: Tuition fees. It's 600 EUR for students from partner institutions.

Scholarships

For tuition waiver students, only the administrative fees have to be covered by the student.
If you register for two modules, one week of administrative fees will be offered to you.