Dates: June 26 to July 13, 2024
Credits: 7.5 ECTS
Language: English
Fees: CAD 5,000 – 8,500
Registration deadline:
April 1, 2024 (students)
May 1, 2024 (professionals)
An international reference in the field of creativity and innovation management, the 16th edition of the Montreal-Barcelona Summer School offers its participants a unique and inspiring experience through a new way to learn.
Join us to co-create an enriching, human, inspiring and collaborative experience!
The Summer School faculty members are innovative and have in-depth understanding of current management practices. Leaders from creative companies and prestigious speakers from a wide array of sectors supplement the faculty. The program also builds on the experience of its participants, drawing out the experience of those in the class to illustrate learnings and facilitating the link between theory and practice.
The Summer School allows a mix of graduate students, decision-makers, university professors, consultants and professionals to immerse themselves in different ecosystems in order to analyze innovation processes in a comparative way.
The program will include lectures, seminars, roundtables, visits, keynote speakers , and challenges or team projects. These challenges are submitted by industry representatives. These challenges or problems become real team projects on which participants work to provide concrete solutions. The program also includes interactive workshops to foster collaboration, experimentation and creativity.
The Summer School also facilitates exchanges between participants and enables participants to meet renowned creators, professors and creative managers in a privileged way, during events or conferences.
Participants discover new ways of doing business in a fast paced, friendly and collaborative environment. At the end of the program, Summer School participants become part of an international community of creative and innovative leaders.
Team
The Summer School is the flagship program of Mosaic, HEC Montréal’s Innovation & Creativity Hub, co-directed by Patrick Cohendet and Laurent Simon, both professors at HEC Montréal.
Since its launch in 2009, the Summer School has benefited from the enthusiastic support of HEC Montréal, the University of Barcelona and the Government of Quebec, as well as that of many partners and collaborators.
The Summer School has inspired the creation of other schools on management of creativity and innovation in Europe, South America and Asia, and is considered as the international reference in the field of management of creativity and innovation.
Patrick Cohendet
Laurent Simon
Lucy Stojak
Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway
Manel González-Piñero
HEC Montréal
Professor, Department of International Business, Co-director of Mosaic
HEC Montréal
Professor, Department of entrepreneurship and innovation, Co-director of Mosaic
HEC Montréal
Executive Director of Mosaic and Director, Summer School on Management of Creativity in an Innovation Society
University of Barcelona
Professor, Department of Economics
Technical University of Catalonia
Head of Innovation at CREB-UPC (Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering),
Adjunct Professor, Department of Economy, University of Barcelona
The Summer School allows a mix of graduate students, decision-makers, university professors, consultants and professionals to immerse themselves in different ecosystems in order to analyze innovation processes in a comparative way.
Participants discover new ways of doing business in a fast paced, friendly and collaborative environment. At the end of the program, Summer School participants become part of an international community of creative and innovative leaders.
SUMMER SCHOOL IS
- A journey of personal and professional discovery with 70 participants from various backgrounds (academic, industrial and institutional) and from around the world
- An immersion of 15 days in two cities, Montreal and Barcelona, known for their energy and creativity (visits to innovative companies and creative organizations, creativity workshops, etc.)
- A rare opportunity to meet and exchange with renowned designers, academics and creativity managers from diverse backgrounds (new technologies, design, architecture, gastronomy, arts and entertainment, video games … )
- A unique chance to step back from your day-to-day activities, to gain perspective, to listen and to share ideas
PARTICIPANT PROFILE
- – Professionals and decision-makers
- – Management consultants
- – Professors and researchers
- – Graduate students of various disciplines
WHY PARTICIPATE
- Experiment with best practices in creativity to innovate
- Learn to implement new forms of value creation
- Share a collective creative experience
- Join an international community
Lectures & Seminars – Deepen your knowledge on management of creativity & the economics of innovation
Conferences with practitioners – Meet & exchange online with leaders from creative companies and organizations from a wide array of sectors (new technologies, design, gastronomy, arts and entertainment, video game…)
Workshops – Foster collaboration, experimentation and a hands-on approach to creativity
Keynote addresses – Discuss with influential thinkers in the field of management
Team Challenges – Participants will collaborate across disciplines on Challenges and learn to produce quality work in a distributed environment. Coaches from industry & academia will support each team.
Preliminary programme: To be published
The Summer School faculty members are innovative and have in-depth understanding of current management practices. Leaders from creative companies and prestigious speakers from a wide array of sectors supplement the faculty. The programme also builds on the experience of its participants, drawing out the experience of those in the class to illustrate learnings and facilitating the link between theory and practice.
You can check the complete list of lecturers HERE.
“The Summer School is not just a course on creativity, it is a complete experience that integrates learning at various levels, with a powerful level of academic/ theoretical thought and a development that intensively encourages exchange with the rest of the group.
Through the different activities, you learn how to connect and experience new skills and techniques that push you to limits you would not otherwise reach. You discover and question yourself on a very personal level, and this makes you get to know yourself better little by little.
One of the most remarkable riches is also the diversity of the group members that make up the Summer School. The multiple nationalities and origins, the ages and the professional and personal backgrounds of each one are connected and exchanged with such a harmony and depth that it multiplies the experience and the value of the course”
Araceli Antón, Master’s degree in Cultural Management student at the University of Barcelona
“The Summer School allowed me to experience creative and innovative environments far from my daily life. In addition, I got to know the intimacies of leading projects in the world. The familiar atmosphere with the classmates and the proximity of the participating experts complete the programme even more, because future professional networks arise from those friendships. May I repeat?”
Francesc Benlliure, Project Manager in Knowledge Transfer at Fundació Bosch i Gimpera
“My experience at the Summer School was more than satisfactory! It is not only about what you can learn or live there, which is also important, but also the human value added that last longer”
Merce Bernardo, Associate Professor at the Department of Business of the University of Barcelona
“I cannot imagine a better experience than the Summer School on Management of Creativity 2018! I had great excitement about the opportunity to be a part of it, but participation in the summer school exceeded every expectation. It allowed me to meet extraordinarily talented and very kind people, visit exceptional companies and unique places. It was entirely hands-on learning by applying new approaches and diverse perspectives”
Alina Fesenko, PhD in Business student at the University of Barcelona
“A learning and life experience I will never forget. You have contact with lecturers, professionals and students from all over the world who are tackling problems through innovation”
Cristian Granados, Professor and Consultant in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Tecnológico de Monterrey
“Cooking omelettes, making acrobatics, designing premium toilettes, checking out motorbikes, having awesome paella and how innovation and creativity plays a part in all of these, it was just a wonderful experience. Two of the most liveable and innovative cities I have ever been. Learning together with people from diverse personal and professional background was very enriching”
Julio Quintana, Distributed Energy Consultant at ENGIE
“The best way to learn how to manage creativity is mixing a multicultural group of professionals in two of the most creative and innovative cities in the world. A unique experience on how to manage real projects in a creative industry and learning how to transform organizations with new perspectives. Totally recommended!
It’s an opportunity to learn how creativity and innovation can transform an organization. The variety of professional backgrounds, ideas exchange and diverse activities gave us the tools to better address processes in our working environment”
Catalina Vargas, Professor at the Innovation Department of the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente
“I participated in the 2012 edition with a scholarship from the University of Barcelona. The academic team of Mosaic-HEC Montreal and the University of Barcelona put forward an incredible program where the interactions of participants, presentations, visits and activities served to gain a unique perspective on the management of creativity in a dialogue between creative disciplines (Music, theater, video games, gastronomy, communication, etc.) and its urban setting (Montreal and Barcelona)”
Juan Vidaechea, Cultural Manager
Professionals
Application deadline: May 1st, 2024
CAD 8,500 (taxes included)
Canadian Graduate students
Registration deadline: February 23, 2024
CAD 5,000 (taxes included)
Non-profit organisations, academics & the public sector
Application deadline: May 1st, 2024
CAD 6,750 (taxes included)
International graduate students
Application deadline: April 1st, 2024
CAD 5,000 (taxes included)
Summer School Alumni
CAD 6,000 (taxes included)
Scholarships 2024 edition (to be announced)
APPLICATION PERIOD OPEN
In order to submit your application you need to fill out the following online form:
Application documents
- Letter of interest (PDF – maximum 500 words). Briefly stat why you wish to participate in the program and the benefits for you and your organization/institution
- Curriculum vitae (PDF)
- Digital photograph HD (JPG). This picture will be used in the biography document.
Additional documents for graduate students
- Reference letter. One (1) letter of reference from a professor to be sent directly by the referee to lucy.stojak@hec.ca
- Official transcripts from all universities attended should be enclosed and sent to:
HEC Montréal
Lucy Stojak
3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine
Montréal (Québec), H3T 2A7
Certificate of participation
- – A certificate of participation, jointly issued by HEC Montréal and the University of Barcelona, will be awarded upon completion of the programme.
Important notes
- – There are a limited number of places for this programme.
- – It is incumbent upon each applicant to ensure that his/her file is complete.
- – Applications which are inc- omplete or submitted after the deadline will not be considered.
- – Applications are reviewed by a Selection Committee. The Selection Committee decisions are final.