1. EIT website homepage: https://eit.europa.eu
2. EIT in our language: https://eit.europa.eu/sl/in-your-language
3. EIT RIS: https://eit.europa.eu/our-activities/outreach/eit-regional-innovation-scheme-ris
4. ARISE webpage:  https://www.eitdigital.eu/arise   

Description of past and future activities performed with EIT Digital
University of Ljubljana is a new partner of EIT Digital, a leading European digital innovation and entrepreneurial education organization driving Europe’s digital transformation. Its way of working embodies the future of innovation through a pan-European ecosystem of over 200 top European corporations, SMEs, startups, universities and research institutes, where students, researchers, engineers, business developers and entrepreneurs collaborate in an open innovation setting.

University of Ljubljana has joined the EIT Digital in 2019 and organized one of the twelve EIT Digital Summer Schools this year. The school focused on Driving Change through Digital Transformation, and the EIT Digital’s Digital Cities Action Line Leader supervised the programme.

The aim of the Ljubljana Summer School was to explore how new technologies are influencing the information, transportation and safety services provided by modern cities. All the teams developed during the summer school a clear description of their innovative idea and the problem they were supposed to solve and their vision of potential solutions.

In the 2020, the summer school will teach the participants how to analyse work processes and organisations and how to develop new working methods through an interactive design process using intrapreneurial and participative actions and experiments. The participants will visit the organisations and will interview different stakeholders.
 

Local contact details
The location of the Summer School is Ljubljana, Slovenia. A small city with a large university of 43.000 students is the perfect setting to allow the students to work on the cases provided by local companies and the city management. Listed as an undiscovered gem by the travel media, the beautiful landscape of Ljubljana, its laid-back summer feel and the proximity of the Adriatic and the Alps make for the best possible new venue for the EIT Digital’s Summer Schools in 2019. However, it’s growing reputation as an emerging startup hub and a crypto nation where more than 1 % of its population has invested into local initial coin offerings (ICO’s) also make it an intriguing destination to develop and deploy disruptive IT technologies in Digital Cities. You can get a better feeling of the host city here.

Student hostel is located 200 meters from the education venue and the city and its surroundings provide he perfect setting for summer social events. We plan to organize several, including a bootcamp for students when they start the summer school (a teambuilding event with clear focus on solving challenges connected to the business aspect of their cases). We will also likely visit one of the other cities in the vicinity of Ljubljana with similar problems but in a different institutional and legal environment (e.g. Zagreb).

Where: School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
When: In July 2020
Website: http://summerschool.eitdigital.eu/
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This activity has received funding from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). This body of the European Union receives support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme."