The call for applications for Akademia, a programme of the Bankinter Innovation Foundation, is now open, where university students are trained to turn the challenges of their professional future into opportunities for growth.
The Akademia 2020-2021 program is being launched in four universities simultaneously: Polytechnic University of Valencia, Pompeu Fabra, Loyola University and University of Santiago de Compostela.
With a faculty made up of 12 experts from the Spanish innovation scene, including the promoter of this initiative, Fernando Alfaro, a national benchmark. The selected students will take a practical journey to experience a real innovation process: from learning to predict future trends to the development of an algorithm based on Artificial Intelligence.
Currently, resilience is not enough to ensure a professional future. The uncertainty and acceleration of the changes that are taking place require an antifragile thinking and attitude, where we are able to detect and take advantage of opportunities for improvement where others only see chaos and disorder.
Through 8 intensive sessions, and without the need for previous knowledge, multidisciplinary students, from different universities and different careers, will immerse themselves in the innovative world, working side by side with interesting people who, otherwise, they would not have met, and guided by renowned experts, with inspiring capacity.
A total of 60 students will be selected in this call, who will be able to choose between three different schedules.
If you are a master’s or final year undergraduate student at the universities mentioned above, apply to choose to live an experience that will enhance your professional opportunities.
The Bankinter Innovation Foundation’s Akademia programme has been successfully held since 2008, having helped more than 1,600 students acquire essential skills and abilities that have made a difference in their professional careers.
“It has been an eye-opening experience that has forced us to ask ourselves many difficult questions under the pretext of artificial intelligence; and that has allowed us to discover challenges that are emerging in today’s business world. In short, as Albert Szent-Györgyi said: ‘To discover something means to look at the same thing that the whole world is seeing, and to perceive it differently.'”
Brian Hernández, Akademia student.
Find out all the information about the format, the sessions, and how to register, by clicking here
You can contact us directly via akademiafibk@bankinter.com.
