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The Global Innovation Teams Model

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Who are we?

Why are we doing this?

What to expect

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Who are we?

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Global

Innovation

Teams

Our model

Designed to be flexible, mostly virtual and in collaboration with people/institutions of different nationalities.

With interdisciplinary teams working on real-world technology based projects provided by companies/NGOs/charities.

P. Doyle , B. Keegan, D. Gordon, A. Becevel, J. P. Gibson, Z. Jiang, D. O’Sullivan. The World is Our Classroom: Developing a Model for International Virtual Internships - the Global Innovations Project. Proceeding of CSEDU 2022, 14th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, Online Apr 22-24 2022, DOI: 10.21427/7YTZ-YT08

Focusing on the development of transversal skills and collaborative work.

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Real-world based experience

Community Engagement

Personal Development

TU Dublin’s GI Teams

Real projects from the community and real challenges to tackle

Collaborating with Football cooperative and the Food & Safety Authority of Ireland

Students set up their own start-up and managed the project as if they were an external company

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Understanding the GI Internship Framework

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Mentorship

Client Project Experience

Innovation - Entrepreneurship

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Mentorship

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  • Confidence
  • Self belief
  • Interpersonal communications
  • Professional communication
  • Follow through and completion

Mentorship

Client Project Experience

Innovation - Entrepreneurship

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Innovation - Entrepreneurship

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  • Defining opportunity
  • Product/service proposition development
  • Creating business proposition
  • Setting up business/website
  • Brand development

Mentorship

Client Project Experience

Innovation - Entrepreneurship

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Client Project Experience

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  • Client engagement/communication
  • Active listening
  • Problem definition
  • Responding to brief
  • Scoping the project
  • Implementing
  • Completion

Mentorship

Client Project Experience

Innovation - Entrepreneurship

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Mentorship Structure

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Individual

Student

Other Students/

Team Workers

(Peer to Peer)

IT Mentor

GI Teams Co-ordinator

Program Mentors

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MDU - Internationality

TSP – Innovation and Transversal Skills

UL - Teams

Flexibility of the model

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Why are we doing this?

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Fostering innovation

Managing clients’ expectations

Some of the challenges we encountered

Embedding interdisciplinarity

Embedding internationality

Managing the team

Admin

complications

Embedding transversal skills

Recruitment

Students’ professionality

Embedding internationality

Finding appropriate projects

Logistics

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Fostering innovation

Managing clients’ expectations

We’ll tackle some of these in our training

Embedding interdisciplinarity

Embedding internationality

Managing the team

Admin

complications

Embedding transversal skills

Recruitment

Students’ professionality

Embedding internationality

Finding appropriate projects

Logistics

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What to expect

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Innovation

Dealing with day to day reality

Managing relationships

Our training

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The Global Innovation Teams model 

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This session aims at providing academic staff an overview of what it takes to implement inclusive, client-based, and transversal skills oriented internships in different contexts. It also aims at providing guidance on how to liaise with industry professionals (from companies, voluntary groups, NGOs, research group, etc.) to implement such initiatives.

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Thanks!

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