STRADA is a leadership development programme that aims to equip emerging female leaders with the knowledge and skills needed to become more effective in your role and your organisation. A blended learning approach will deliver masterclasses on topics such as leadership, digitalisation, innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainability. You will learn from those experienced in many different areas of manufacturing from research to the factory floor how to ramp up your career. The course brings together manufacturing expertise, practice-based exercises and modern case studies with feedback from our network of peers, instructors and mentors to enhance your professional and personal growth. STRADA is about taking your career to the next level, so jump on board.
The overall aim of this module is to provide the participants the tools to become better leaders.
Module Summary
During the sessions of this module, participants will have the opportunity to critically engage with different dimensions of leadership in order for each participant to develop their own personal sense of themselves as a leader.
A range of leadership theories, perspectives and research are explored in this module in order to lead the participants in a critical engagement with the content to enable them to develop a range of ideas about leadership and a keen awareness of how to respond to different contexts and situations in appropriate ways different ways drawing on their emergent identity as a leader.
The module draws on a wide-ranging international literature to focus on contemporary policy, practice and leadership challenges.
Module Contributors: Dr. Beatriz Martinez-Pastor, UCD
Duration: 3 hours (two sessions of 1.5 hours)
The overall aim of this module is to develop technology and digitalisation leadership competencies with application to situations emerging leaders face in practice.
The overall aim of this module is to introduce the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation to drive growth within a manufacturing context
Module Summary
Entrepreneurs boost industry transformations, and can benefit society by favoring economic growth, social change and community development. Participants will learn the effects of the diversity in entrepreneurial and managerial teams, what a startup is, what is a business model in manufacturing and how to apply these concepts in real cases. The module is underpinned by four themes including Innovation/entrepreneurial potential and team formation, Startups and Business Models in Manufacturing, Customer discovery and the customer validation and Application of the business model on real cases. At the end of the module, participants will be able to apply the concepts learnt to real cases.
Module Contributors: Alessandra Colombelli (Politecnico di Torino – Italy) and Elisabetta Raguseo (Politecnico di Torino – Italy)
Duration: 4 hours (60-minute lecture/discussion over one month period)
The overall aim of this module is to build understanding of the importance of sustainability for leading the business of the future in line with the policy context on EU level and to provide knowledge about sustainability and circular economy as main drivers for sustainable growth of a business.
Module Summary
This module will look at how to better understand and facilitate sustainability in companies. The topic is very hot for the EU as climate neutrality underpinned by sustainable development is at the core of the Green Deal – the new growth strategy for Europe. The course will contribute to the creation of a new generation of leaders recognizing sustainability as a key driver for realizing the twin transition and shifting from business-as-usual to new leadership approaches.
The module is underpinned by three themes: EU Policy context on sustainable development; Basics of sustainability; Circular economy as a booster for sustainable development.
Upon completion of the module, participants will have an understanding of the role of industry in realizing the twin transition based on a sustainable growth.
Module Contributors: Elitsa Petkova, Veliana Zlateva, Mariyana Hamanova, Cleantech Bulgaria
Duration: 3 hours (60 and 120 minutes lecture/workshop over two weeks period)
Tailor-made webinars that will help you improve
Up to 2.5h of mentoring sessions with a mentor
and online sharing experiences workshops
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Previously, as Audit Manager at the National Audit Office of Estonia, Kaire was involved in organizing and conducting audits in the fields of energy, environment, state infrastructure, transport and IT. She started her career as a consultant and project manager in the field of energy and environment. She holds a Master’s degree in Heat Engineering and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Environmental Protection Technology.
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Today Sirli leads the innovation-driven supply site in Tallinn, where latest 4G and 5G products are industrialized for clients all around the world.
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