Prof' Hannu Tenhunen, Director

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Prof. Hannu Tenhunen, Director

• Nordic Master Program in innovative Information
  and Communication Technologies (NMP iICT)

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The Consortium

• Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), Stockholm
• Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU), Copenhagen
• Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), Turku
• Turku University (UTU)
• Åbo Akademi University (ÅA)
• Turku School of Economics (TSE)

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Objectives

• To enhance exisitng large scale master program
  cluster
• Co-operation and increase focus to core
  competence areas
• Increase global competiviness and visibility of
  the main Nordic educational institutes
• Increase quality and and decrease no-shows
• To promote Nordic area as a global powerhouse for
  innovations in ICT
• Outreaching and nteractions with Science Park
  structures
• Develop new program elements and operational
  modes so that the involved programs are
  recognised to be the leading ones in world for
  PUPLIC schools
• Strategy development and benchmarking
• Add back the excitement element!

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Motivation

• to attract more and better national, new EU
  member state and outside EU students -gt thereby
  amending the student pool towards Ph.D. studies
• to combine Innovation Entrepreneurship (IE)
  with ICT studies
• to enable and strengthen the profiling of the
  partner universities
• to establish joint program quality improvement
  activities

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International Master Programmes at KTH, DTU, UTU,
ÅA, TSE

• KTH (teknologie magister)
• Information and Communication System Security,
  Internetworking, System-on-Chip Design, Design
  and Implementation of IT products and Systems,
  Interactive Systems Engineering, Software
  Engineering of Distributed Systems, Engineering
  and Management of Information Systems, ICT
  Entrepreneurship
• DTU (M.sc. in Engineering)
• Computer Science and Engineering with
  specilaisations in Software Security, Software
  Engineering, Embedded Systems, Efficient and
  Intelligent Softwwre, Digital Systems, Computer
  Games
• TUCS/UTU (M.Sc.)
• information science with specilaisations in
  following topics Computing, Electronics and
  Communication Systems, matjhematics for
  Information Technology, Nanosystems, Work
  Informatics
• TUCS/ÅA (M.Sc. in Economy and Business
  Admiknstration)
• Masters program in mobile and electronic
  commerce
• TUCS/TSE (M.Sc. in Economy and Business
  Admiknstration)
• Masters program in Global IT Management
• 3000 international applicants, over 800 students
  enrolled each year. Some of the programs
  regognised leaders in Europe

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NMP dimension
Innovation and Entrepreneurship 20 ECTS

• possible to do joint studies
• possible to do double degrees within agreements
  between partner universities

MSc
MSc
MSc
MSc
MSc
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Realization

• based on cooperation and further development of
  existing international ICT master programs at
  partner universities
• in addition a study package of 15-25 ECTS in
  Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Business Enterprise ModelWRT Entrepreneurship
and Creativity
Company Fellow
Executive Management
Technical Track
Business Track
Entry Level
Enterprise
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Nordic MS program relational framework
Company Fellow
Executive Management
Technical Track
Business Track
New Business Activity
Entrepreneurship
Intrapreneurship
Entry Level
Enterprise
Nordic MS Program
Technology Incubation
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Innovation and EntrepreneurshipCourse overview
details

• 1. I E in ICT Context, 5 ECTS
• 2. New Business Models, 5 ECTS
• 3. Starting-up and Managing a New Venture,
• 5 ECTS
• 4. Innovations and Global Growth, 5 ECTS
• Optional course
• From Idea to Profitable Business
• Integration of IE activites to M.Sc. Thesis work
• Possible separate MBA program for graduates
  involving in science park incubator activities

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Combining core competencies

• Identifying the strong focus points in each
  particiapting unikversity and defining learning
  outcomes to comptentence/profile modules
• Through the mobility the students can combine the
  desired own profiles based on modules 20-30 ECTS
• As a cluster, overall state-of-art ICT coverage
  can be offered at highest competence level (best
  among public school)
• Challenge
• Mobility arrangements
• Comptence module timimg
• Unification of prerequsities (adaptation layers
  maybe needed)
• Open issues teacher mobility, compensations,
  network university operation, supporting ICT tools

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Applying, financing, mobility etc.

• Part of normal application procedures
• Cause as little admisntrative overhead and
  changes to the university system as possible
• Distributed due to around 3000 applicants
• University operational model for joint and
  distributed activities
• Socio-economic support for students selecting the
  mobility and joint degree options
• Scholarships for supporting and atracting
  excellence

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The plans for the future

• Short term (now)
• IE reference implementation
• Formal aspects and faculty/university approvals
• Learning outcome definitions for profile modules
• Marketing material
• Distributed operational model
• Long term (2008/2009)
• Synchronisation of time and prerequisite wise the
  profile modules
• Visibility and consolidation of exisiting global
  cooperation networks
• Quality enhancements via shared best practices
• Joint new profile module develeopments
• New partners (open platform)
• Erasmus Mundus programs spin-offs
• EIT KIC