European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Courses

Teach like an Entrepreneur: Bringing Entrepreneurship into the Classroom

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Learn about different types of entrepreneurshipOn this course, you’ll distinguish between different types of entrepreneurship, learn the value of entrepreneurial competences for individuals and society and align these with subject-specific learning in STEM.You’ll come away able to embed entrepreneurial activities in your teaching through experiential learning techniques and challenge-based resources.Recognise the value of entrepreneurship educationEducators are increasingly being encouraged to create curricula that are relevant in a changing world, while also improving student motivation and retention.On this course, you’ll discover how entrepreneurial learning can create empowering educational environments that give students the opportunity to put ideas into action.Encourage entrepreneurial mindsets and skill sets in studentsYou’ll develop a shared definition of entrepreneurship, understand key entrepreneurial competences and discover new methods and approaches for teaching creativity and entrepreneurship in the classroom.You’ll evaluate and celebrate success and reflect on opportunities for collaboration and learning beyond the classroom.Explore entrepreneurship education alongside an expertLearning from internationally recognised entrepreneurship expert Professor Dana Redford, you’ll emerge able to embed entrepreneurial learning activities, design lesson plans, and put your learning into practical educational action.This course is designed for teachers that are looking to inspire young people and transform teaching and learning to become more entrepreneurial. While designed for secondary education teachers in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM subjects), the course may also be of interest to other professionals seeking to encourage entrepreneurial behaviour in their students.

Electrification of Urban Mobility: How to Get it Right

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Gain key insights into successful electrificationTo be sustainable and deal with current climate change, our future cities must become greener. For urban mobility (trips generated within a city) that means clean energy must replace fossil fuels.This two-week course from EIT Urban Mobility introduces the challenges faced by cities during that energy transition, and their possible solutions.Electrification of mobility: Learning from the pastUrban mobility doesn’t just involve methods of transport. It also includes city spaces and how well they accommodate the trips people take. On this course, you’ll take a closer look at how town planning can influence how fuel is used.This knowledge will help you evaluate how effectively clean energy has powered urban mobility in the past, looking at specific examples. You’ll learn about previous successes and failures, and how those lessons can be applied when designing future cities.Look to the present and future of electrificationAfter you’ve evaluated what worked and what didn’t work for other cities, you’ll get the chance to consider your own. What solutions can you develop to successfully make the energy transition, ensuring that current and future urban mobility needs are met?Reviewing your city’s transport requirements and objectives, and how to meet them using clean energy, will give you a great opportunity to practice being an effective urban planner. Importantly, you’ll understand what can realistically be done and what town planning changes need to be made now.Learn with passionate urban mobility expertsThe Urban Mobility initiative at EIT is dedicated to making cities more livable by changing the way people move around them. Whether you’re a concerned citizen or a future urban planner, EIT will show you the possibilities of sustainable cities.This course is designed for anyone interested in the health of current and future cities, including urban mobility and transport industry professionals. Whether you’re a member of the public or an urban planner, you’ll find a wealth of information here.

Real Climate Action: How to Engage People in Climate Change

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Inspire climate action in others with strategies that really workEIT Climate-KIC and Project InsideOut will show you how to take effective climate action.This five-week course will explore how to communicate and engage with others around climate change, while achieving audience buy-in and behaviour change.Give your environmentalism a psychosocial edgeTraditional messaging, systems innovation, and the powerful Quadrant of Engagement tool by psychologist and climate strategist Dr Renee Lertzman are all brought together on this course. The transdisciplinary approach will help you engage others in a whole new way.Inspire behavioural change for climate changeOver the duration of the course, you’ll discuss why fear tactics are ineffective for facilitating climate action, why an empathic approach is more effective, and how to use the Quadrant of Engagement tool to map out strategies that motivate people to make important behavioural changes.See Dr Lertzman’s environmentalism first-handThis course does more than share Dr Lertzman’s message on how you can turn climate anxiety into action. It provides the ideal platform to teach you herself. Supported by the respected European Institute of Innovation Climate Knowledge and Innovation Community (EIT Climate-KIC), she’ll show you how to create truly effective engagement campaigns for climate change.This course was designed for anyone who is tired of feeling anxious and ready to take climate action for real change. It’s perfect for students, entrepreneurs, innovators, and activists alike.

How to Plan a Hackathon: Hacking the Challenges of Digital Education

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Get expert tips on how to run a great hackathonHackathons are usually thought of as events where people come together to collaborate with computers. However, non-technical hackathons are becoming increasingly popular – where people gather to solve an organisational rather than a technical problem.On this course, you’ll discover how to organise and run a non-technical hackathon that can address a challenge in digital education and improve your organisation’s digital skills and competencies.See if a non-technical hackathon is right for youAlongside the expert minds behind the global non-technical hackathon DigiEduHack, you’ll explore the pros and cons of running a hackathon and whether it’s the right tool for your digital education challenge.You’ll then learn how to draft a description of your challenge with the help of the challenge building canvas and guidance.Learn how to build and run a hackathonOnce you’ve decided a hackathon is right for your challenge, you’ll build a hackathon plan with the help of a hackathon process map, toolkit, and host handbook.You’ll examine real-world host experiences and consider improvements to the challenge description and hackathon plan.Hack with the minds behind DigiEduHackDigiEduHack is a series of online hackathons for innovators who want to solve the big problems facing EdTech and digital education today.They’ll help you emerge from the course with a clearly defined hackathon plan, ready to solve your digital education challenges with community-sourced innovation.This course would benefit learners from organisations considering using the hackathon format to solve their digital education challenges.

Planning for Autonomous Vehicles: A People-Centred Approach

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Successfully incorporate autonomous vehicles into sustainable urban planningFor sustainable future cities, the way people use and move around urban spaces must be reviewed. The town planning done now will have massive impacts on city dwellers’ quality of life in the years to come.This four-week course will explore how autonomous vehicles should be incorporated into sustainable urban planning. Its people-centred approach helps to ensure the systems are adopted, ultimately creating eco-friendly urban mobility for a greener tomorrow.Discover the potential of autonomous vehiclesYou’ll see what self-driving vehicles are capable of, beyond the hype. The training material will show you how to critically evaluate what the ‘automotive revolution’ promises for future cities and what, based on the technology, we can actually expect.Let people determine the focus of sustainable transportationThe central idea of this course is that for clean, sustainable transportation systems to be successful, they need to meet people’s needs and be easy to use.Once you’ve understood the potential capabilities of automated vehicles, you’ll get to apply that knowledge to typical town planning challenges.Mobility requirements, general acceptance of new urban planning policies and transport systems, and other key obstacles will be explored.Learn from transport systems experts dedicated to green citiesEIT Urban Mobility focuses on changing the way people move around and interact with cities, to make them more livable. With equal dedication to human societies and the environment, EIT Urban Mobility experts will show you how to improve both with automated transport.This course is designed for anyone interested or involved in sustainable transport systems. Urban mobility and town planning professionals will find it especially beneficial.

Communicative Planning for Urban Mobility

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Discover the importance of collaborative (communicative) planningUrban planning includes a complex stakeholder network, presenting many difficulties for urban mobility and transportation professionals.This four-week course will help you explore different approaches, cases, and applications of collaborative planning as a solution to solve challenges.What’s more, you’ll learn how to answer the many questions raised when trying to implement this strategy.By the end of this engaging online course, you’ll understand how successful and sustainable urban mobility planning depends on the collaboration between citizens and communities, city officials, private businesses, and other stakeholders.Increase your confidence operating in a VUCA worldTo deepen your understanding of the complexity and context of the operational environment that planners work in, you’ll learn about policymaking and its impact on urban mobility planning.This knowledge will help you gain the skills and confidence to operate effectively in a VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) world.Learn how to select the right tools for urban and transportation planningThroughout the course, you’ll discover different ways to engage with all stakeholders.You’ll learn how to select the right communicative and participatory planning tools and how to apply them in planning processes. You’ll also identify the best practices for social media engagement from a planning point of view.Through this examination, you’ll be able to reflect on your own work and understand how to apply these tools to your project.By the end of the course, you’ll have the skills to make your engagement process smoother and understand how to spread this knowledge among your team for more effective practices.This course is designed for urban mobility and transportation professionals, and urban planners.It will also be useful for other professionals in the public and private sectors working in urban mobility and transportation.

Battery Manufacturing: Trends in Battery Engineering

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Understand the current trends and challenges in battery engineeringOn this course, you’ll learn how sustainable batteries can play a vital role in a green economy.The European Commission’s ‘A Clean Planet for all’ sets out a vision of a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. New advances in battery technology can make this a reality, and make battery engineering an exciting career path.Learn about the importance of batteries for clean energyBatteries are vital for a sustainable future because of the key part they play in stabilising the power grid and in powering electric vehicles.You’ll learn exactly what the current trends in battery manufacturing are, and the different ways new batteries and storage technologies can aid clean energy in Europe’s automotive sector and beyond.Explore new Li-ion battery technology trendsYou’ll learn about cutting-edge Li-ion battery electrodes, and the new ways they could be applied in energy and industry.You’ll also get an overview of the latest processes in cell manufacturing.Examine recent safety issues in battery production and recyclingBattery recycling is a key component of sustainable battery engineering. You’ll identify how recycling can help secure sustainable materials for battery production.You’ll also learn the latest in recycling technologies for Li-ion batteries, and ultimately be able to describe thermal runaway and important battery safety issues.This course is for university students and young professionals, and would especially appeal to students studying engineering or professionals orientated to the manufacturing sector.

Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing: Costs Structures and Benefits

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Learn how additive manufacturing and 3D printing could benefit your organisationThis short course will develop your understanding of the cost structure and benefits of additive manufacturing (AM) and 3D printers, as well as the competitive business advantages additive manufacturing can provide.Discover the business benefits of metal additive manufacturingWhen additive manufacturing is used in sync with other technologies within the process chain, the time and cost of product development can be significantly lessened.On this course, you’ll learn how additive manufacturing parts are lighter by default, can be tailored for extraordinary performance and aesthetic appeal, and can be manufactured locally and on-demand.You’ll explore how this impacts the cost structure of AM and how companies using AM also benefit from savings in storage space and added value from fast delivery times of their products.Explore owning vs. subcontracting metal additive 3D printersAs you get to grips with the direct and indirect costs of additive manufacturing, you’ll consider the business costs of 3D printing and the benefits of owning a metal additive manufacturing printer in production compared to subcontracting one.You’ll also learn how cost structure and supply chain in additive manufacturing differs from conventional production.Understand the opportunities of digital manufacturing technologyAlongside experts at LUT University and EIT RawMaterials, you’ll develop your understanding of the economic feasibility and potential of additive manufacturing in business today.By the end of the course, you’ll be well-versed in how additive manufacturing could benefit your company and the business implications of owning metal additive 3D printers.This course is designed for decision-makers, designers, engineers, educators and business professionals who wish to expand their knowledge about the applications of additive manufacturing and the business implications and benefits of metal 3D printers.