News

The oiAcademy's Tartu pilot program starts on 03. November
📣Call for students, challenges and companies We want YOU to be a part of it.
👉 Join Tartu programme: https://lnkd.in/dixuw6cX
There will be four active seminars. The form of work is group work, where students look for solutions to entrepreneurs’ challenges with the support of mentors, coaches and investors. Between seminars, learning materials are used on the EIT Manufacturing platform skills.move (www.skillsmove.eu). All coaches, mentors, lecturers, entrepreneurs and investors get extra access to materials on Digital Pedagogy.
📅 Save the dates:
1. Ignition Workshop. 03. Nov at 13.15-14.45
Introduction to oiAcademy, EIT training platform skills.move and challenges presentation by industrial companies. Assigning participants to teams. Questions and answers.
2. Event. 17. Nov at 13.15-14.45
Sharing learnings from the nuggets that will be applied in the task. First pitching of solutions. Feedback, what to improve.
Homework for the 3. event: Participants should follow nuggets related to – Business Model Canvas; Customer Development and Teams. Coaches, mentors, trainers and investors who are expected to give an assessment of materials about Digital Pedagogy are also asked to go through a proportional part of the nuggets associated with the subject.
3. Event. 01. Dec at 14.15-15.45
Pitching of Business Model Canvas and its context. Feedback.
Homework for the 4. Final event: Participants should follow nuggets related to entrepreneurship; Pitching; Prototyping; Teambuilding; Stakeholders. Coaches, mentors, trainers and investors who are expected to give an assessment of materials about Digital Pedagogy are also asked to go through a proportional part of the nuggets associated with the subject.
4. Final Event. 14. Dec at 14.15-15.45
Solution presentation – final pitch in front of experts. Evaluation. Feedback. Coaches, mentors, educators, entrepreneurs and investors also provide reviews on Digital Pedagogy. Diplomas.
All the seminars will take place at the Delta Centre in room 1018 and online in Teams!
👉 Please register here: https://lnkd.in/dixuw6cX
Collaboration and partnership have been the driving force behind our journey, and we’re proud to work closely with these outstanding organizations who bring industry challenges to solve and participate in the programme:
- Sparkup Tartu Science Park
- M&P Nurst AS
- R-S OSA Service OÜ
- HANZA Group
- Leidi Consult Ltd
- University of Tartu
- Delta Management School

The oiAcademy's pilot programme is ready to take off!
We are thrilled to announce that our long-awaited oiAcademy’s pilot programme is ready to take off! We bring together students, startup companies, and industrial enterprises for an immersive learning experience like no other.
🌐 This programme is tailored with innovative methodologies to address real-world challenges provided by our industrial partners. Together with our partners we have put together a fine-tuned study module hosted on the Skills.move e-learning platform. It’s much more than solving the challenges of leading industrial companies. It’s about learning vital skills such as leadership, team building, entrepreneurial mindset, technology transfer, innovation management and much more. At the moment, each partner works with participants from their own corner of the world. Later on all partners and participants will share the experience with each other.
🌍 Our journey thus far has been a testament to collaboration and partnership. It’s a privilege working hand in hand with four exceptional organizations in creating this program:
📅 Mark your calendars! Pilot trainings from October to January. Exact dates from our partners soon.
– University of Tartu (Estonia)
– IMH Campus. Machine Tool Institute (Spain)
– TECNALIA Research & Innovation (Spain)
– Technische Universität Braunschweig (Germany)
– Sparkup Tartu Science Park (Estonia)
DISCOVER oiAcademy
Why oiAcademy?
The importance of innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) has an instrumental role both at the EU and global level. In all sizes of organisations in manufacturing, there is a constant need of people who can turn new ideas into profitable realities.
To engage in open innovation processes requires both high-level vertical, domain-related skills, as well as horizontal skills in tech transfer and innovation management.
Also, participating in open innovation processes requires both high-level vertical competences related to the technological domain and horizontal soft skills competences leadership, teamwork, entrepreneurial mindset, technology transfer and innovation management.
oiACADEMY programme will help current and future professionals in the manufacturing sector to create innovative ideas and transform them and place them successfully in the market
oiACADEMY is an innovation and entrepreneurship programme based on a learning process that has a shape of a “double helix“; Acquiring knowledge with the support of the EIT Manufacturing Skills.Move learning platform and, acquiring skills through experiential learning activities,