Creative Europe – Disruptive Innovation Project

Creative Europe – Disruptive Innovation Project

Tuesday 12th March, 12:45-14:00

Upstairs at The Eagle and Ball (next to The Curzon building)

• Are you interested in creating the future?
• Would you like to us creative thinking to apply emerging tech to solve societal challenges? 
• Would you like to participate in a programme in Romania (travel and accommodation expenses paid) and at STEAMhouse in Birmingham?

We are launching an innovative new programme for creative thinking, innovation and technology open to BCU students, both undergraduate and postgraduate. There will be a lunchtime drop-in session on Tuesday 12th March from 12:45-14:00 upstairs at The Eagle and Ball (next to The Curzon building) to explain how the STEAM Disrupt Lab pilot will work and how you can participate. And there’ll be free pizza!

More about the programme: 

Participants in the STEAM Disrupt Lab pilot will be given a series of challenges to address. Working collaboratively and with technical support, teams will produce concepts or protoytpes to address those problems.

There will be two labs:
Urban INC, Bucharest, Romania 29^th April-4^th May 2019
STEAMhouse, Birmingham, UK 8-12th July 2019

Travel and accommodation in Bucharest will be paid for by the pilot.

Who can take part?

We are looking for a diverse group of people to take part in this exciting pilot. If you are interested in any of the following then you will find the programme relevant to you:

•    Creative: Artistic work, especially concepts that applies 
technology
•    Innovation: Service design, urban innovation or digital user 
experience
•    Making: Tech or traditional making, product design or 
technology engineering
•    Computing: Computer software development and coding such as apps

To find out more, come to the Eagle and Ball on Tuesday 12th March.

For more information contact mark.brill@bcu.ac.uk or see https://bit.ly/2TiWTqA for our  application form.