The master in Innovation Design aims at integrating multidisciplinary competences in the innovation of products and services field. The professional profile is very attractive for the industrial world and quite new in the academic offer. The faculty comes from the University of Ferrara and the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The different cultural backgrounds, along with the Technopoles of the High Technology regional Network opens a lot of possible collaboration with several leading industries (automotive, biomedical, infotainment, packaging and food etc.). The Master in Innovation Design was endorsed and supported by several International Design research groups and Institutions such as Stanford Center for Design Research”, “Paris-Est d.School” from Paris Tech e the CERN with the Idea Square project, which was created in collaboration with the UNIMORE Design thinking group.

The small amount of student who can apply (max. 40) is needed to ensure a top didactic experience and to implement many labs where the student are free to unleash the creativity and to realize tangible projects. The master in Innovation Design opens the door of the industries and gives as well the opportunity to continue with a PhD both in Engineering or Design.

Two main asset can be highlighted in the Master in Design: the first one is the Design Thinking approach, which was brought in Italy by UNIMORE. The Challenge Based innovation Project an course (http://www.cbi-course.com/) and the SUGAR network (http://sugar-network.org/) project testify the very high level of collaborative students activity in this area. The second asset is the learning by doing approach, where the coaches train the class in the management of multidisciplinary complex problem, by means of small groups activities.

The master in Innovation design shows these important features:

- International audience, English based lectures and labs

- Students with different backgrounds, multidisciplinary team based projects

- Industrial Partnership for the final synthesis project

- Innovative didactic: learning by doing, Design thinking, and group based projects

- Professional figures: the lectures will be strongly integrated with stakeholders, thought leaders and industrial actors to guide the student with mentoring sessions.

- More than Design: the integration of the Design methodology with engineering disciplines gives the student the chance of becoming industrial innovators of products and processes.

- Project based communication: the student will learn how to transfer the vital information about their project to other people and how to interact inside and between groups.

- Technology transfer: the multidisciplinary course enables a fast and efficient migration of solutions and ideas between different contexts, fostering creativity.

- Engineering aspects: Even though the design and creative part is fundamental, the background in Engineering is crucial to include in the projects feasibility constraints and quantitative method to ensure an industrial applicability of the ideas developed by the students

- Final territorial projects: the Master is structured in order to spend the last semester in a specific territorial lab: Educational technology innovation (RE) - Mobility innovation (MO) - Health and wellness innovation (FE) where the student will apply the design thinking methodology on real case studies.

HOURS AND CONTACTS WELCOME TUTORING AND ORIENTATION AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT
Support for those who have just enrolled in Unife, to take their first steps in our University, receive freshmen, orient themselves in both physical and virtual classrooms, for which practical operational support can be useful. The welcome tutoring service aims to make new students feel part of a whole.
Contacts:
E-MAIL ACCOUNT: reception-architecture@unife.it
TELEPHONE NUMBER: 0532 293688

The service is active on the following days and times:

It can be done inside the University of Ferrara or outside

• External internship (outside the University of Ferrara in Italy)

Information, guides and procedures on the page: http://www.unife.it/studenti/tirocini-placement/curricolari/tirocinio-curricolare-almalaurea (IT)

For information about procedures: Ufficio Placement

List of affiliated companies: https://jobcentre.unife.it/it/lau/lau_aziendeconvenzionate/

The list is not exhaustive, new internships can also be activated with companies that are not yet affiliated

To activate an internship, the Company must register or (if it is already registered) access the Almalaurea Portal and carry out the procedure for signing the agreement and inserting the training project.

Link for Companies

The Students must be registered on the Portal before the company enters the training project. The training project must be entered into the portal by the Company at least 15 DAYS before the start date of the internship.

Before starting the internship activation procedure it is necessary to be registered on Almalaurea (also Master's students). Students of Master's Degrees (already registered at web portal of Almalaurea) will have to update their profile by accessing the personal area of Almalaurea by clicking on "Add a degree". The information to activate the internship by the Company can be found in the "Guidelines" included in the underlying "downloadable documents".

Link for students

• Internal Internship

Before to start the traineeship, the student must send to the Teaching Manager the internal training form completed and signed by the student, the tutor of the host center/companies and by the academic tutor (Prof. Giuseppe Mincolelli).

Internal form traineeship

• Internships abroad (not international programs such as Erasmus, Atlante)

1) the student must have the authorization to carry out the internship abroad. The application must be presented to the Career Office which transmits it to the degree program. For information on the application, contact the SOS

2) you must produce the foreign agreement: Internships abroad for information and documentation Internships abroad (IT). For information about procedures: Ufficio Placement

• Erasmus+ Traineeship (outgoing students)

For information about Call Erasmus+ traineeship, how to apply and procedures: Ufficio Internazionalizzazione