Entre Camp 2025 – Smart Cities And Regions

Entre Camp 2025 is an intensive training program organised Ulysseus European University. For five days, between June 2 and 6, 2025, 40 master’s students from the universities of the Ulysseus alliance will be able to meet in Seville and enjoy an academic offer of excellence with the tutoring of trainers from the Ulysseus Universities.

The program addresses the following priorities: digital transformation; environment and climate change; inclusion and diversity; entrepreneurship and knowledge transfer; and regions and smart cities.

Please be aware that your home university may set a different application deadline depending on their internal selection process.

Registration dates 10 November 2024 31 January 2025

Course dates 02 June 2025 06 June 2025

Registration is open

Course Content

Entre Camp 2025, Smart Cities and Regions: Aiming for a multiple perspective is an intensive training program organised by Ulysseus European University. For five days, between June 2 and 6, 2025, 40 master’s students from the universities of the Ulysseus alliance will be able to meet in Seville and enjoy an academic offer of excellence with the tutoring of trainers from the Ulysseus Universities.

It is addressed to students from inter-disciplinary programs and qualifications involving business, administration and law. This program offers a unique opportunity for students to engage with some of the most pressing priorities shaping the future. It offers students an immersive experience in key global priorities: digital transformation, climate change, inclusion, and diversity. It also covers entrepreneurship, knowledge transfer, and the development of smart cities, equipping participants with skills to drive innovation and sustainable growth.

Join us to tackle today’s critical challenges!

Objectives

Develop and strengthen students’ entrepreneurial mindset through agile processes, tools and methodologies such as Design Thinking
Design Thinking: learn how to use the Design Thinking process and tools
Challenge-based learning: work closely with organizations and companies on a challenge
It also seeks to improve critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, and identifying business opportunities
Entrepreneurial mindset: strengthen entrepreneurial skills
Sustainable business: work towards sustainable solutions for the future
Intercultural teamwork: develop communication and teamwork skills in a multicultural environment

Methodology

Entre Camp aims to enhance students’ knowledge of entrepreneurship through comprehensive and diverse modules, while incorporating a challenge-based learning approach.

Students will begin their learning journey in April by participating in the virtual opening of the programme, where they will be informed of a first learning task (pre-assignment) that they must complete in preparation for the intensive week in Seville.

The activities that make up the program, linked to the field of entrepreneurship, aim to contribute to the development of the concept of smart city and region in the Seville area. Thus, different partners from Ulysseus’s Smart Cities and Regions Hub will present three challenges focused on this concept. The objective of these challenges will be the proper functioning of everyday life and the well-being of citizens, nature and businesses.

This general theme is further divided into three sub-themes:

Smart City – Proposals from civil society
Smart City – Proposals from the Administration
Smart City – Proposals from the productive sector

Once these challenges have been discovered, the students must find innovative solutions during Entrecamp days using the Design Thinking method, which will be explained during the program by qualified faculty and coaches from the Ulysseus universities. Students will focus on working on the topics by providing solutions to the challenges during the intensive week.

The program also includes company visits, inspiring speakers, workshops and round tables. Recreational activities will also play a role in the Entre Camp Program and students will have the opportunity to visit the city of Seville and adjacent regions of high ecological and cultural value.

Learning Outcomes & Skills

Five days of intensive training in a collaborative and inspiring environment
Lectures and talks by prestigious professionals
Attendance at relevant companies and networking opportunities in the Seville region
Included leisure programme: fun and community development
International experience in Seville

Entre Camp aims to improve trainees’ knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship through very comprehensive and diverse modules. After this training course, participants will be able to:

Use the Design Thinking process;
Develop and strengthen their entrepreneurial mindset;
Think critically, make decisions, create different solutions and discuss the practical value of these solutions;
Communicate and further develop ideas through discussions;
Look at problems from various points of view when working in diverse teams and with companies and other stakeholders;
and identify business opportunities and develop them into a set of sustainable solutions

Location

The program will be held at the Learning and Research Resource Center (CRAI) Antonio de Ulloa, located in the scientific-technical campus of Reina Mercedes of the University of Seville.

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Agenda

In person mobility

Day 1

Welcome and challenge presentation (CRAI)
Tools & Tasks for the day explained by coaches and teamwork (CRAI)
Team Building and city tour (Seville City)

Day 2

Tools & Tasks for the day explained by coaches and teamwork (CRAI).
Teamwork (Seville City).
Discuss and Teamwork
Visit Parque Nacional de Doñana

Day 3

Tools & Tasks for the day explained by coaches and teamwork (Espacio RES).
Tools & Tasks for the day explained by coaches and teamwork (CRAI).
Entrepeneurship story from external speaker (CRAI)
Flamenco Show and Rectorado visit (Seville city)

Day 4

Tools & Tasks for the day explained by coaches and teamwork (CRAI)

Day 5

Teamwork (CRAI)
Project Presentations (CRAI)
Course Feedback (CRAI)
Panel Discussion (CRAI)

Virtual mobility

Preparatory work (pre-assignment). Students will have to work on a task related to the challenges and submit this task prior to the face-to-face component (15/04/2025-01/06/2025)
Delivery of the learning portfolio where students must investigate and expose the concepts learned during the face-to-face period. It is after the face-to-face component (07/06/2025-30/06/2025)

Requirements

Students enrolled in studies of the following levels in Ulysseus Universities: Master’s or equivalent level (EQF-7) & Doctoral or equivalent level (EQF-8)
English B2

Timeline

November 10 2024-January 31 2025: Application process through each partner university
April 2025: Online kick-off meeting
May 2025: Deadline for the delivery of the pre-work and learning agreement
June 2-6, 2025: Entre Camp in Seville
June 30, 2025: Deadline for students to submit their learning dossier or portfolio for evaluation
September 15: Deadline for evaluation of student learning