CAST Summer School

CAST Summer School

Do you dream of being an entrepreneur? Do you want to launch your own start-up?

The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre (EIC) at Politecnico di Torino in collaboration with CLIK is pleased to present CAST Summer School.

What is CAST?
CAST (Creating A great Startup) is an online entrepreneurship program for startup creation.
During the summer school, participants will work on ideas proposed by students or patented technologies from Politecnico di Torino.
Participants will attend lectures and workshop on how to turn an idea into a viable business. They will work in team and will be coached by mentors.

TARGET

The summer school is free and open to MSc and PhD students from Politecnico di Torino and Unite! partners.

WHEN

The summer school will take place from 13 September to 1st October 2021. 

Calendar of the School
SCHOOL FORMAT

Lessons, workshops and team works will be held online, with both synchronous and asynchronous sessions.
The school will be held in English.

TEAM

The summer school will involve 30 students, divided into 6 teams.

HOW TO APPLY
The program is free but places are limited. Enrollment is open until August 31th.
Send your application filling out this FORM.
After filling out the application form, you will be asked via email to send us additional information for the selection process, such as a cover letter and cv.
For any information you can contact us at info@eic.polito.it

Faculty

Gigi Wang

Industry Fellow UC Berkeley

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Rick Rasmussen

Industry Fellow UC Berkeley

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Shomit Ghose

General Partner at ONSET Ventures

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Whitney Hischier

Lecturer - Haas School of Business

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Alessandra Colombelli

Associate Professor

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Emilio Paolucci

Full Professor

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Shiva Loccisano

Head of Technology Transfer at PoliTo

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Daniele Battaglia

Assistant Professor

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Entrepreneurs

Daniele Conti

Founder and CEO SynDiag

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Andrea Ancona

Tech-Transfer Manager

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Mentors

Gigi Wang

Industry Fellow UC Berkeley

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Giovanni Arigliani

Business Analyst at I3P

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Giulio Perotti

Business Consultant at I3P

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Tutors

Andrea Ancona

Tech-Transfer Manager

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Davide Drago

Knowledge and Technology Transfer Manager

Andrea Panelli

Ph.D. Student

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Alice Rosiello

Knowledge and Technology Transfer Manager Junior

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Francesco Serraino

Research Fellow

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Luigi Villari

Knowledge and Technology Transfer Associate

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Judging Panel

Andrea Basso

Chief Technology Officer at MITO Technology

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Alessandro Commito

Board Member and Director at EnVent Capital Markets

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Angelo Italiano

Associate at Club degli Investitori

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Marta Nervo

Associate at Venture Factory

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Round Table

Shiva Loccisano

Head of Technology Transfer at PoliTo

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Arianna Elena Maschietto

Program Manager at Plug and Play

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Maria Cristina Odasso

Head of Business Analysis at LIFTT

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Giuseppe Scellato

Full Professor at PoliTO
President at I3P

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GECKO

The acronym gecko derives from: Improving enGineers’ Employability with multi-Competencies, Knowledge and Opportunities.
The acronym perfectly expresses the goal set by EIC in collaboration with prestigious partner universities, such as:

  • Université de Montpellier
  • Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia
  • Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
  • Uppsala Universitet
  • Politecnico di Torino
  • Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan
  • University of the Philippines
  • Ateneo de Manila University
  • Universitas Gadjah Mada
  • Institut Teknologie Bandung
  • Burapha University
  • Ubon Rutchathani University
  • Kasetsart University

The method used to achieve the set objectives is to develop training modules in the management field, appropriately adapted to the needs of engineering students and to support training activities for teachers working in Asian countries.

Project coordinator: Alessandra Colombelli