We thank the OpenInnoTrain project team for trusting our TalTech School of Business and Governance / Department of Business Administration / Mektory team to co-organize the final summer school of the project with 43 doctoral students. And thanks to the ISPIM network, which brought the ISPIM Junior Research Lab with 70 doctoral students to TalTech.
Most excitingly, from June 3-7, 2024, the OpenInnoTrain summer school focused on social impact, and on June 9, 2024, the ISPIM Junior Research Lab seamlessly joined with the DAAD-funded project Junior Researcher LAB on Digital and Sustainable Transformation, inspiring research cooperation between the Baltic States and Germany.
Thus, over 100 doctoral students and junior researchers from more than 12 different countries
- have networked, become more aware of social impact issues, participated in ISPIM's workshops on innovative teaching methods, sustainability, and action research;
- listened to Professor Mari-Klara Stein's keynote on being a strategic yet heart-driven researcher;
- explored topics like AI & economics (Professor Tarmo Kalvet, senior researcher Marek Tiits, NESTA);
- explored topics like sustainability & circular economy (Professor Wolfgang Gerstlberger, doctoral students Margit Kull and Tarlan Ahmadov), and much more.
The most dedicated participants continued to the ISPIM conference from June 10-12, 2024, at Kultuurikatel.