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In 2025, the Contamination Lab changed its name and became the new "Innovators Community Lab" - ICL. This page is currently under review and some it is possible that some contents still need to be updated. 

If you have any doubt, please contact us by email at icl@units.it.

Located in the prestigious setting of the "Commander's House" (Casa del Comandante) in the former Military Hospital, the ICL is a hub for innovative courses and workshops meant to accelerate the orientation process towards the professional future of UniTS students, with a specific focus on support to business creation.

20/03 "Business Talks" –  Cosulich Group: from family business to global company  (held in Italian)

The first event of the “Business Talks” series addresses business success stories and provides participants with the opportunity to engage with prominent corporate leaders.

The guest invited to this first encounter is Knight of the Order of Merit for Labour Dr. Augusto Cosulich, President of Cosulich Group, who will go through the group's business story from almost a century ago to the current global recognition of its ability to innovate and diversify.

Date: Thursday 20th March 11:00AM

Venue: ICL UniTS – Former Military Hospital, Via Fabio Severo 40, Trieste

REGISTRATION by March 19th: https://web.units.it/page/forms/it/content/incontro-augusto-cosulich_20-marzo

Rank List for the ICL - Innovators Community Lab Call

You may now find the rank list of admitted candidates for the call to access the co-working services of the former Contamination Lab, now Innovators Community Lab (ICL).

The deadline was January 20th, 2025.

Find below the rank list of the admitted candidates, also available on the Albo Ufficiale, and the call rules and code:

  • January 14th (9AM - 5PM) - Open Day Innovators Community Lab
    An opportunity to get to know the new programme on start up creation and the details of the 2025 call (deadline of 20th January), visit the spaces of ICL, designed to help in the development of business ideas and participate in a simulation of development of innovative ideas and solutions to solve hypotherical business ideas and issues in the Business Model Canvas Game. Morning game session: 9-11AM, afternoon game session: 3PM-5PM.
    11AM-3PM | workshop on creative and innovation approches for an effective and compelling communication with Davide Calabrese.
    Info 

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  • CLab 2024 inauguration and 2023 annual report
    The official inauguration of the Contamination Lab 2024 has taken place on May 6th 2024 at the former Military Hospital of Via Fabio Severo 40, Trieste. We welcomed as guests Angelo Baiguera, head of external relations at Polo del Gusto; Barbara Franchin, President of the ITS foundation, and Massimiliano Guido, Advisor to the Executive Director of the World Bank. The event's host was the journalist and President of the FVG Journalist's Order Cristiano Degano.

    Throughout the event, the winners of the new 2024 CLab call were introduced with their projects, as well as the CLab 2023 Annual Report, which is available here below. 
    Annual Report 2023
     

  • @BusinessLounge - COMUNICAZIONE D’IMPRESA - Il valore dietro l'immagine (part 1)
    Monday 13th May 2024, 2PM-6PM
    SPEAKERS: Sara Svagelj and Ettore Spezza from ReBel Film S.r.l.
    Business stories and how to narrate them on a technical and on a communicative level to reach a specific audience and a certain level of popularity, adapting or conditioning the market and our taste.
     
  • @BusinessLounge - TECNICHE DI FOTOGRAFIA E RIPRESA - Il valore dietro l'immagine (part 2)
    Thursday 16th May, 14PM-18PM
    SPEAKERS: Sara Svagelj and Ettore Spezza from ReBel Film S.r.l.
    Use of light, times, diaphragms and focal lengths to give an image a specific connotation, post-editing process, color grading and temperature change.
     
  • @BusinessLounge - LITERATURE THAT INSPIRES MARKETING: FROM SHAKESPEARE TO KEROUAC, FROM PROPP TO CALVIN
    Tuesday 11 June 2024, 2PM-6PM
    SPEAKER: Giulia Basso, professional journalist for national newspapers
    Since the twentieth century, literature and marketing have winked at each other, and have not stopped doing so even in the digital age. Because great writers have always fed our imagination with stories, thoughts and unforgettable protagonists. In an even more basic way, they taught essential rules for communicating an idea and convincing interlocutors through effective storytelling, which is the essence of the writer’s craft. During this meeting we will learn how to steal some tricks of the trade from famous novelists and essayists, we will reflect together on these principles trying to trace them in the analysis of some texts, we will also talk about branded content and when writers themselves become excellent advertisers. Finally, we will try to integrate the lessons learned from literary models with some tricks of contemporary marketing and will conclude with some exercises in writing texts, to try to put into practice what has been learned.
     
  • "In vista del Big Science Business Forum (BSBF) di Trieste. Le opportunità per gli studenti e i giovani ricercatori"
    September 19th, 2024, 4PM - Ex Ospedale Militare
    Read the programme of the event (ITA)
     
  • "La cooperativa: un modello imprenditoriale sostenibile" - curated by Legacoop
    September 24th and October 3rd, 5PM-7PM
    Read the programme of the event (ITA)
     
  • "IMPRO-WRITING: dalla scena alla parola" - Seminars @BusinessLounge
    October 24th, 2PM-6PM 
    Speaker:  Davide Calabrese | Actor, singer, author and director.
    Read the programme of the event (ITA)
     
  • "Branding"- Seminari @BusinessLounge
    October 29th, 3PM-7PM 
    Speaker: Simonetta Degano, | Life & corporate coach.
    Read the programme of the event (ITA)
     
  • "Strategie di comunicazione"- Seminar @BusinessLounge
    October 30th, 3PM-7PM
    Speaker: Simonetta Degano, | Life & corporate coach.
    Read the programme of the event (ITA)


Seminar series: "PROPRIETÀ INTELLETTUALE E VALORIZZAZIONE DEI RISULTATI DELLA RICERCA" ("Intellectual Property and Valorisation of Research Results" - held in Italian)

  • Module 1 – Panoramica sui diritti di Proprietà Intellettuale - Focus brevetti ("Overview on Intellectual Property Rights - Focus on Patents" - held in Italian)
    September 26th, 2024, 3PM-6PM | Speaker: Stefano Ligi
  • Module 2 – Nuova disciplina invenzioni in ambito accademico (art.65 C.P.I.) ("New Regulations on Inventions in the Academic Context (art.65 Italian I.P. Code)" - held in Italian)
    October 9th, 2024, 4PM-6PM | Speaker: Lorenzo Fabro
  • Module 3 – NDA e Licensing ("NDAs and Licensing" - held in Italian)
    October 14th, 2024, 4PM-6PM | Speaker: Avv. Erika Poletti
  • Module 4 - Copyright e Creative Commons ("Copyright and Creative Commons" - held in Italian)
    November 13th, 2024, 5PM-7PM | Speaker: Avv. Carmela Barilà

Info here

 

  • Seminar @BusinessLounge "Contributi e agevolazioni per le nuove imprese"
    14th November, 4PM-6PM | Speaker: Francesco Auletta
    Info here
     
  • CONTAMINATION LAB 2024 FINALS - CLab Awards!
    5th December from 5:30PM
    Info here
     
  • Seminar @BusinessLounge "Entrepreneurship in numbers: perspective on gender and competitiveness”
    28th November 2024, 5:45PM-7:45PM
    Info here

The CLab is a place where innovation comes from collaboration between people from different educational backgrounds, from the transversality of disciplines and the contamination of knowledge, hence the name Contamination Lab.

CLab activities consist of learning, mentoring, coworking and making, and are aimed at students selected on the basis of the annual call for applications. Learning activities are open to all students enrolled at the University of Trieste.

Throughout the year, the CLab organises seminars open to the entire university community.

  • LEARNING
    Knowing in order to know how to recombine: a multidisciplinary and systemic training offer on soft skills, specific skills for business planning and innovation as a production system, which also includes meetings with companies and seminars with guidance professionals.
  • MENTORING
    Listening, knowledge and skills at the disposal of projects: consulting on strategic intellectual property management, business planning and open innovation.
  • COWORKING
    Open spaces for ideas to grow: common study and work areas where you can carry out your projects and feel like a community, assisted by professionals.
  • MAKING
    The presence of a making corner to create prototypes to support one's projects.


    The CLab is part of the "STUD.ENT" (STUDent ENTtrepreneurship) initiatives, which promote training moments at different stages of the university career, with a view to developing managerial and project education. The participants' projects will also be oriented according to the trajectories of the "Sustainable Smart Specialisation Strategies" (S4) identified by the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, to which the University of Trieste contributes with a strong commitment to training and research.

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Learning: Business creation and employability
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Business Model Canvas
A strategic model used for the creation and development of business models.
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Business Plan, what it is and how it works
To understand the basic dynamics in setting up a new company.
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New Product Forecasting
To learn the basic concepts of creating and marketing a new product.
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Communication and storytelling
Learn how to tell the story of a company, its values and its mission.
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Leadership, team building & social strategies
To understand group dynamics, motivation and performance improvement techniques.

Contamination Lab

Università degli Studi di Trieste
Via Fabio Severo, 40
34127 Trieste TS

Tel +39 0405587825
e-mail: clab@units.it

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