New Call: the Contamination Lab becomes ICL - Innovators Community Lab

A new call is out for the UniTS students who wish to access the co-working services of the former Contamination Lab. With the new edition, CLab changes its name, becoming Innovators Community Lab (ICL).

Do you have a creative business project in mind? Do you want to learn how to develop it? Join the ICL call: winners will be able to attend educational activities, work in a team and create prototypes in the designated spaces of the former Military Hospital in Via Fabio Severo 50, and connect with enterpreneurship experts!

Click on the link below to see the call and the rules for the participants. The deadline to apply is 20th January 2025.

Innovators Community Lab Open Day

14th January, 9AM-5PM

The Open Day is an opportunity to get to know the new programme on start up creation and the details of the ongoing call, with a deadline of 20th January.

During the Open Day, you can:

• visit the spaces of ICL, designed to help in the development of business ideas;

• participate in a simulation of development of innovative ideas and solutions to solve hypotherical business ideas and issues in the Business Model Canvas Game (two game sessions available): 

  - morning session: 9AM-11AM

  - afternoon session: 3PM-5PM

• from 11AM to 3PM, participate in the event on creative and innovation approches for an effective and compelling communication with Davide Calabrese.

To attend the Open Day, you must register below: https://web.units.it/page/forms/it/content/open-day-innovators-community-lab_2025

---2024---

• 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.
  
   
• 2024's first edition of 5-lession seminar "Business Plan: What It Is and How It Works" ended on June 14th
  The objective of the seminar is to provide the participants with the knowledge and skills needed to gather and process information about new business ideas or pre-existing businesses, in order to make choices and plan the sustainable development of a company in its phases.
  More information on the seminar page.
  
   
• 2024's first edition of 5-lession seminar "Storytelling and Communication" ended on June 28th
  The seminar aims at providing participants with transversal, narrative and strategic skills, enabling them to create stories through social media as well as learn to make use of new channels to convey contents.
  More information on the seminar page.

• 2024's first edition of 5-lession seminar "Business Model Canvas" ended on July 19th
  The seminar aims at providing basic knowledge about the strategic model called Business Model Canvas, a tool used to create and develop business models, to analyse case studies and learn how to identify risk factors, essential partnerships and the activities that are needed in order to achieve one's goals and be successful.
  More information on the seminar page.

   

• 2024's first edition of 5-lession seminar "New Product Forecasting" ended on June 26th
  The seminar aims at providing the partecipants with basic concepts about the creation and marketing of a new product (project, licensing, production, etc.) and with the tools to analyse issues and the creation of a product.
  More information on the seminar page.

   

• "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.