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Open Innovation Hub

Digital Technologies & Advanced Manufacturing

Creating “bridges of knowledge” via private-public partnerships and in-depth collaboration

The Open Innovation Hub (OIH) for Digital Technologies & Advanced Manufacturing at Politehnica University Timisoara is one of nine OIHs in the E³UDRES² alliance.

The Open Innovation Hub for Digital Technologies & Advanced Manufacturing at Politehnica University Timisoara aims to intensify talent management activities to fill the knowledge and digital skills gap of various specializations engineers (mechanics, mechatronics, robotics, electrotechnics, electronics, energetics, computer science, civil engineering, chemical engineering etc.).

The Hub scope is to create “bridges of knowledge” via private-public partnerships and collaborations between the different local and regional stakeholders from education, research-development field, industry, services and logistics fields, and local/regional authorities for the development of programmes, capacities, infrastructures, projects and initiatives which will contribute to the accelerated digital transformation of organizational systems. 

In this context, experts from the Politehnica University of Timisoara community (including alumni experts), will act as catalysts and facilitators of all Hub’s initiatives. In addition, the Hub's action plan will focus on digital challenges and problem-based learning approaches (supported by intensive processes of knowledge, innovation and technology transfer) among different stakeholders, to make industry sectors and stronger and more resilient services in the future.

What the Open Innovation Hub does

Talent Management

The talent management philosophy of the Hub is to create a database with local/regional experts and to support the development of combine soft skills, and knowledge for hard skills and thus, promotes the creation and functioning of the Tech Talent Accelerator, an active unit of the Hub that contribute to the flexibility, agility and versatility of employees’ skills.

Creative and Open Innovation via Local/Regional Collaboration

The OIH develops projects based on public-private partnership/collaboration (with local/regional stakeholders’ involvement) which accelerate knowledge, innovation and technology transfer to economic organizations in the area. Mentoring, coaching and buddy schema are generally used together with technical-consulting contracts for satisfying industrial partners’ requirements.

Enhance leadership and entrepreneurial skills

The OIH pays special attention to the development of leadership and entrepreneurial skills, with a focus on Digital Leaders, Green Leadership, Entrepreneurial Leaders, as well as women in STEM and in Entrepreneurship.

The Base

📍 Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania

Based at Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania, the Open Innovation Hub on Digital Technologies & Advanced Manufacturing is led by Valentin Niță.

The university has been around for over 100 years - it is an institution that focuses on advanced research and education, having around 15.000 students and 10 faculties. Today, it is one of the traditional Romanian schools and is recognized nationally and internationally both through the work of generations of teachers and the outstanding work of prestigious academics.

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Associated Projects

StartUPT

UPT and fonduristructurale.ro prepared 341 students with an entrepreneurial spirit who wanted to open a business. The best 26 business plans were funded with up to 60,000 EUR per project.

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SUS Rural!

The general objective of the SUS Rural project was to strengthen economic and social cohesion in the western region of Romania in order to combat poverty and support the socioeconomic integration of people belonging to vulnerable groups.

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InoHub UPT – The Student Entrepreneurial Society

InoHub comes to the aid of students with a mechanism to support, develop, and encourage entrepreneurial spirit in the university environment, regardless of the form of study or the education program they are following.

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Contact the team of the open innovation hub

Valentin Niță

Politehnica University Timisoara

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