Webinar – No-cost admission: Registration required
Attendance is limited: Register by 3 June
Webinar attendance links will be distributed following registration.
To the launch of the first Europe-based hub for the Make Impact Consortium!
Attend this free information session to learn about the global higher education community that integrates design, innovation, making, and entrepreneurship, helping students Make Impact
Make Impact Consortium Hub Launch
Wednesday 9 June 13:00 – 16:00 CEST
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On behalf of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Fontys University of Applied Sciences, School of Engineering, we invite you to to a special event to learn more about the Make Impact Consortium.
Make Impact is the global consortium that identifies the needs, and creates the resources, to build university-wide, and regional environments that attract, educate, support, employ and deploy the next generation of innovative and entrepreneurial makers.
Make Impact helps member schools augment their making and entrepreneurial courses and extracurricular programs to position students for in-demand careers.
Attend this webinar to discuss how your school will benefit through collaborations with this globally integrated ecosystem of technology, making, design, and entrepreneurship.
The webinar will describe
- The Make Impact mission, goals, and objectives
- How Fontys University of Applied Sciences, School of Engineering delivers the Make Impact mission
- Make Impact student outcomes
Will you join us in lifting the students at your Research University or University of Applied Sciences to the next level of entrepreneurial-makers, and making-entrepreneurs?
Follow the instructions and links below to ensure your spot.
We look forward to describing how the Make Impact Consortium will help you, help your students, make impact.
Plan to attend 9 June 2021!
Attendance is limited: Register now!
Agenda
Wednesday 9 June, 2021: All times CEST
| 13.00 | Introductions | |
| What it means to be a member of the Make Impact Consortium | Professor Martin L. Culpepper, MIT | |
| The impact of being a member of the Make Impact Consortium (Fontys) | Ella Hueting, Director Fontys School of Engineering | |
| Break | ||
| 13.50 | How to enrich your campus Innovation and Entrepreneurship | |
| See the Impact! Fontys student demonstrations / Other Consortium school projects | Fontys students | |
| Tour Fontys MakersPlayce | Fontys students | |
| Applied research and how to involve companies | Kees Adriaanse, Programmaleider Fontys Centre of Expertise HTSM | |
| Entrepreneurship competencies and research results | Victor van der Linden, Manager Fontys Centre for Entrepreneurship | |
| Showcase Make Impact Challenge winners | Gene Sasso, MIT | |
| Successful technology startups | Rick Bonants, Fontys | |
| Break | ||
| 15.10 | Upcoming Impact | |
| Webinars, Bootcamps, Challenges &etc. | ||
| 15.20 | Discussions / Break out rooms | |
| Membership details | Professor Martin L. Culpepper, MIT | |
| Additional information | Jonathan Hunt, MIT | |
| Networking | Gene Sasso, MIT |