STARTERcreative and STARTERtech open their idea development program with Loomehäkk vol 6: Creative Tech on September 14-16

Loomehäkk vol 6: Creative Tech Fri 14. September at 14:00 – Sun 16. September 2018 at 17:00 Mektory · Raja 15, 12618 Tallinn Buy ticket. Registration is free for students, use code: student. Please bring your student ID to the event. The Baltics’ largest creative industries hackathon Loomehäkk returns on September 14-16 with a bang and 

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STARTER graduates CarZam and the rEstFind enter a business development program NGAL

This year, an exclusive business development program NGAL® (Network Globally, Act Locally) takes place from 4th to 15th June, engaging five universities from USA and Estonia. The program starts with the boot camp at UT IdeaLab and ends with a launch-camp in Nebraska, USA. University of Tartu will be represented by two teams: STARTER programme 

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What is happening with STARTERlab in Kiev

On 21 May, a seminar about creative teaching methods took place in Kiev, in the Ukrainian Ministry of Science and Education. About 100 lecturers and educators across Ukraine had come to participate in the workshop organised by UT IdeaLab in collaboration with Ukrainian partner organisation “Platform for Innovative Partnership”. On the next day (22nd of May) 

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Kaleidoskoop winners!

On 18th of May was Sout-Estonia’s biggest student business ideas competition Kaleiodskoop. Judges selected the best idea – CarZam! At the pre-selection, 10 teams were selected out of 19 to pitch at the Finals. This year Kaleidoskoop was organized together with UT Demo Day. Team CarZam idea is to create a device that can be 

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STARTERcreative & Haapsalu spring patch winner Soundnest provides services for pregnant woman and their partners

This STARTERcreative & STARTERhaapsalu demo day took place at SEB Innovation Centre in 10.05 where 22 teams presented their results of business idea development journey. The jury members: Eva Leemet, Jana Pavlekova, Mari-Ann Meigo Fonesca, Tõnis Bramanis, Martin Adamsoo, Marko Müürisepp, Harri Tallinn, Andrey Lisitsyn and Anni Konsap, struggled to pick out the best ideas. Most 

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Halfway through STARTER programme – Yrjö Ojasaar led teams into the world of product design!

On 6th of April our STARTER program teams gathered at IdeaLab to learn the basics of product and service design, design thinking and customer validation. Workshop was held by internationally experienced legal consultant, entrepreneur, start-up mentor and investor Yrjö Ojasaar. Yrjo started the workshop sharing his own story about becoming an entrepreneur, explaining the principles of 

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Idea Storm brought together 200 students brimming with ideas!

On Thursday, 16th of February around 200 students, entrepreneurs and start-up mentors gathered at Dorpat Convention Centre to generate and share ideas at the inspirational event “Idea Storm. 100 ideas that could change the world”. The discussions were held on 21 different topics, every discussion was led by an entrepreneur from particular field. Later on, 

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