OpenInnoTrain 2024 Tallinn Summer School!
The summer school will take place, 3-7 June in Tallinn, Estonia, hosted by TalTech and welcomes applications from all over the world and across disciplines. Please note: this is an onsite event (in-person only).
OpenInnoTrain 2024 Tallinn Summer School offers an excellent opportunity for participants to develop skills for creating impact and to design their own research impact journey. Participants will learn how to identify and contextualize the impact of their research, engage with stakeholders, track impact outputs, and communicate real-world impact. The Summer School is a great place to build new connections and explore future collaborations.
We encourage participants to plan their visit to Tallinn to include both the Summer School and the ISPIM Conference that takes place the following week in Tallinn. It is a wonderful opportunity to join both events!
Expression of Interest (EOI) to attend the Summer School have been closed!
Participation in the Summer School is at no cost to the participant (free of charge). Participants must however cover their own transport to, accommodation, and living expenses whilst in Tallinn.Â
Participants will be able to obtain 2 ECTS from the University of Vaasa upon completion of a short assignment after the event.Â
Summary of details for PARTICIPANTS
- Participation: in-person only
- EOIs: Through this form. (closed)
- Deadline application:Â Friday, 12th April 2024Â
- Notification of outcome: 19th April 2024
Travel Grants: (closed)
We are pleased to announce a limited amount of travel grants (10 x 1000 €) on offer to PhD Students and Early Career Researchers, who are based outside of Estonia. (Note: EOIs for the travel grants is via a separate online EOI form to the online Participation EOI form).
- Apply for a Travel Grant through this form. (closed)
- Deadline for travel grant application: Friday, 12th April (23:59 CET)
- Interviews with the selected grant applicants: April 15th – April 19th 2024 (if successful to this interview stage, you will be sent an online Teams meeting calendar invite with the date and time of your interview)
- Notification of outcome of travel grant applications: From 19th April
Summer School Mentors (closed)
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On the first day of the 5-day program, we will allocate participants into diverse groups/teams (diversity around discipline, experience etc.) or approx. 4-5 people.
One Group Mentor will be allocated to each of the groups/teams to help them understand the OpenInnoTrain canvases and guide them throughout the course of the week during the workshop sessions. Whilst we welcome diversity in mentoring approaches across teams, and do not wish to be fully prescriptive around this role (different approaches are valuable), there will be mandatory pre-event train-the-trainer high-level coaching around the OpenInnoTrain canvases that will be used by the groups. There will be one 90-minute online train-the-trainer session for all Mentors well in advance of the Summer School.
Benefits of being a Summer School Mentor: share your experience/expertise with Ph.D. Students, Early Career Researchers, Network, build/expand your coaching skills, add value to the OpenInnoTrain Summer School program, gain experience using Canvases to ideate and collaborate, experience working in teams across discipline areas, receive a certificate of participation / thanks for your contribution as a Mentor.
Requirements of Mentors:Â mentors must be available to attend the full five-days of the Summer School; commit to participate in the 90-minute online train-the-trainer that will be scheduled in advance of the Summer School.
Mentor Suitability: Mentors can be senior researchers; postdoc researchers; professional staff who work directly with and support research staff – or who would like to up-skill to work with them. If you have any questions about suitability, please email us: info@openinnotrain.eu – we would love to hear from you!
Expressions of Interest (EOI) to participate in the Tallinn Summer School as a mentor must be submitted by the deadline: Friday 12th April 2024. Mentor EOIs will be reviewed via a two-stage process with all applicants being notified by Tuesday 16th April if they have been successful in progressing to the next stage (or not) which is an invitation to a brief, online, informal interview.Â
IMPORTANT: You can apply as both a Mentor and Participant as a back-up plan should your Mentoring EOI not be successful.
Summary of details for MENTORS
- Participation: in-person only
- EOIs:Â Through this form. (closed)
- Deadline application:Â Friday, 12th April 2024Â
- Notification of outcome for next stage: 16th April 2024
- Train-the-trainer session for mentors will be held before the Summer School
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Location
TalTech (Tallinn, Estonia) – TalTech Mektory Building (Address: Raja 15, Tallinn).Â
Cost
Free of charge
Program
*Note that the programme is subject to slight changes leading up to the event
