Ideas and informatics

elective courses

The classes are a platform where students present ideas of potential business. The students’ presentations are complemented by lectures concerning the legal and economical issues related to running a business in informatics.

The classes are arranged in three stages. The first one is devoted to the organisation of the activities. The second stage is devoted to students' presentations of computer based projects while the third one consists of lectures devoted to the legal and economical issues related to running a business in informatics. The first stage would take 2-3 weeks, the second one up to the end of December while the third one would take place in the final month of the semester. The presentations in the second stage are given by teams that consist of either students of informatics (teams of 3 persons) or students of other majors (teams of up to 3 persons). Presentations given by teams from informatics will be interleaved with presentations of similar duration given by students of other majors. During the classes there is time devoted to discussion over the projects. This format would create a platform where ideas could be exchanged between different circles that take part in the subject. In the third part, until the beginning of the exam period, the task of students would be to formulate interdisciplinary projects that could form a basis of a potential start-up. The proposals should be formulated by teams with students of different majors. Project descriptions of length 5-10 pages would be submitted in January to a committee that would consist of representatives of informatics and other majors that take part in the organisation of the subjects. Until the end of winter exam session, a limited number of projects will be chosen, which can be mentored by our faculty members within the educational path Start-ups of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics. In addition, some of the classes in the third stage will be devoted to lectures concerning the legal and economical issues related to running a business in informatics.

Knowledge

- knowing the principles of making and development of individual entrepreneurship based upon informatics,

- knowing legal and ethical issues related to scientific and educational activities,

- knowing and understanding of basic notions and principles in the field of industrial property protection and copyright law as well as the need of intellectual property management; knowing how to use patent information resources,

- knowing the relationships between humanities disciplines and the exact and natural sciences in a philosophical and social context [K_W06].

Skills

- the capacity to use theoretical knowledge in cultural activities with a social aspect [K_U06],

- presenting the results of one’s own analysis of research problems in oral, written and multimedia form [K_U08],

- producing written papers: essays, short dissertations, reviews, scientific reports in Polish and in one of the “congress” languages [K_U09],

- preparing written and oral presentations accounting for the level and needs of the audience [K_U13].

Competences

- understanding the need for continual education after graduation [K_K01],

- understanding the principles, rules and necessity of group work [K_K02],

- the capacity to organise and work with a group and assume different social roles within it [K_K04],

- understanding the principles of tolerance and cultural differences [K_K07],

- the capacity to precisely formulate questions that deepen the understanding of a given subject (in particular in contacts with non-professionals) or to find missing elements of reasoning,

- understanding and appreciation of the significance of intellectual integrity in their own activities as well as in the activities of others; the capacity to act ethically,

- the capacity to think and act in the enterprising way.

30% of the final grade is for the presentation and 70% is for the project proposal.