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27/10/2025 13:00 - 28/10/2025 14:00
Entrepreneurial mindsets and skills are essential for driving innovation and economic growth. However, integrating entrepreneurship education across all 21 faculties of the RUB is a major challenge. To address this, we have developed the Technology Entrepreneurship Module, a scalable platform that delivers entrepreneurship content to students from different academic backgrounds. This module ensures that all students gain access to fundamental entrepreneurship knowledge and develop the necessary skills to apply it in their respective fields.
Through this initiative, students who complete two selected faculty-specific modules (10 ECTS) as well as the 5 ECTS Technology Entrepreneurship Module will be eligible for the RUB Entrepreneurship Certificate. This certificate serves as an official recognition of their entrepreneurial skills, enhancing their career prospects and their ability to innovate within their disciplines.
The Technology Entrepreneurship Module helps to answer questions such as “How do we turn breakthrough technological ideas into successful ventures?” “Do crises always have to be the catalyst for innovation?” “What methods can help to align new technologies with market needs?” The module combines technology and innovation management methodologies with real-world case studies, delivered through engaging video seminars. Students will learn the fundamentals of technology entrepreneurship, the process of turning ideas into viable business models, and strategic tools for technology assessment and planning.
In Turkey, as in many other parts of the world, post-industrial urban landscapes have undergone significant transformation. Former industrial zones are increasingly repurposed as cultural and artistic hubs. This talk examines how theatre and performance arts, in a broader sense, contribute to this process by fostering cultural identity, social cohesion, and inclusivity. Drawing on case studies from İstanbul—such as the conversion of industrial sites like Bomontiada and Santralistanbul into cultural centers, as well as the emergence of independent theatres in Kadıköy and Beyoğlu—the presentation highlights how artistic initiatives revitalize urban environments and challenge dominant narratives.
Particular attention will be given to collaborations between universities, cities, and artists, as well as to theatre groups operating in diverse spaces such as former industrial sites, apartments, and even garages. The talk will also explore how these initiatives contest the authoritarian political climate and entrenched hierarchies within the field of performance arts. By situating these practices within the broader framework of urban innovation, the presentation demonstrates how artistic methods can address structural inequalities, amplify marginalized voices, and generate new forms of civic participation.
Ultimately, it argues that theatre and creative drama function as transformative tools that reshape the social and cultural fabric of post-industrial cities.
Zagreb’s Districts of Culture brings art and creativity to every corner of the city. Coordinated by the Center for Cultural and Social Development – New Cultural Spaces, the program aims to make culture accessible to all residents and strengthen local communities through diverse cultural events.
After a successful pilot edition, the 2025 program expanded to 14 districts, featuring over 100 events and 300 artists. The presentation will highlight how this initiative is reshaping Zagreb’s cultural landscape and bringing culture closer to its people.
In her talk, Lea will present the ongoing curatorial, education and research work within the Centre for Research of Fashion and Clothing (CIMO). CIMO is a nonprofit organisation founded in 2013 and based in Zagreb, Croatia. CIMO is focused on researching the theoretical and creative aspects of fashion and clothing as part of contemporary visual and urban culture. CIMO contextualises specific local practices and phenomena in relation to the global fashion system and academic fashion discourse. Some of the topics covered are the rise and fall of the local textile industry, working class clothing practices, post socialist fashion histories, reinvention of different local craft traditions, socially engaged collaborative textile practice, experimental educational programs for young fashion designers and visual artists
Reimagine cities - The world as we know it is transforming in sinister ways, slowly decreasing faith in the future. Contemporary post-industrial European cities are plagued by the challenges of approaching environmental and social sustainability, economical, migration and health issues and many more. Thinking about the future and transformational change is becoming increasingly harder. This talk will present re-imaginatorium, taking offspring in design fiction and speculative design, as an artistic format for radically re-imagine the future of cities. We can think about the format as “critical imagination” that can be used to challenge taken for granted assumptions, worldviews, and facilitate the emergence of critical questions.
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