Soft-skill training session “Mini course on Entrepreneurial Skills, Commercial Exploitation and Intellectual Property Rights” including course material and follow-up with students.

About: Chaperone is an online platform created to empower scientists and academics in their careers by connecting them with career consultants around the world. On this platform, scientists can browse and book online 1-to-1 sessions with over 35 experienced career consultants (career specialists, advisors, counselors and coaches) on over 50 different support topics. In addition to online 1-to-1 sessions, Chaperone also provides online group training in the format of workshops or webinars. Chaperone is a social impact company acting on the SDGs #4 Quality education and #8 Decent Work and Economic Growth awarded by Gulbenkian Foundation, Área Metropolitana do Porto, Maze Decoding impact, Blue Tulip Awards and Euclid Network.

Brief description: Capacity building session on generating and developing entrepreneurial ideas. Participants will be divided into groups and work on ideas to solve an identified problem/challenge. The goal is that participants not only work on concrete business ideas but also elaborate on those ideas, and receive specific feedback about them. Course dates: October 12, 2023, 11:00AM (CEST, online),