Nodes Challenges, Uninsubria students and businesses work together to promote technological innovation

On the afternoon of Thursday 11 July 2024 in Varese, in the splendid location of Villa Toeplitz, a meeting entitled: Nodes Challenges: students and companies for technological innovation was held.

The event was organized by the University of Insubria, leader of Spoke 3 with the aim of presenting the results of 3 challenges in which some Uninsubria students were involved to citizens, businesses and researchers. 

In the last two months, twenty-four students from the Department of Economics of the course on Economics and Management of Innovation and Sustainability (CLEMIS) and the course on Economics, Law and Corporate Finance (CLEDIFI) and fifteen students from the department of Law, Economics and Cultures of the Hospitality for Sustainable Toruism Development course had the opportunity to work side by side with important corporate entities such as ComoNext Innovation Hub, and Logos Centro Studi srl.

The three challenges: "Sustainability reporting", "Skills" and "Museum innovation based on extended reality and generative artificial intelligence", had the aim of putting young people face to face with the completeness of the problems that companies and institutions encounter on a daily basis in their business and development journey and to therefore develop targeted projects that take into account technological innovation to be used as a tool for the valorisation and promotion of the territory and sustainability.

During the event, professors, students and representatives of the companies involved discussed the challenges and objectives and results achieved; Furthermore, the Nodes flagship projects were presented as well as various opportunities for businesses deriving from the project.