In the 2024 edition of PORTFOLIO Summer School in Budapest 24-28 June, participants are expected to find, rethink, or create digital solutions for participatory democracy that contribute to deepening societal change. The aim is to have students embrace and tackle the challenges of vulnerable platforms, inclusive methods, digital lobbying, alerts, and misinformation while also enhancing European values. 


LEARN Entrepreneurial Strategies and skills based on European values!


The main aim of the Summer School is to develop your entrepreneurial and creativity skills, while planting the seeds of responsible management and European values in You, as future leaders and entrepreneurs.

You will learn about the most important factors of creating and developing responsible new tech projects and products, and you will elaborate on the positive social impact of such activities.

The lectures will embrace new value-based entrepreneurial strategies and more responsible and inclusive business models.

You will work in teams and through the analysis of the provided cases and with the support of the mentor teachers. By the end of the Summer School you will have to propose a new project or a solution for a systematic change: tools and technologies for digital empowerment, better access against digital poverty, data protection, avoid misinformation, react upon AI fears and advantages, against the widening digital gap, accelerated digital transformation and its effect on the democratic use of technologies.


WHAT IS INCLUDED for free to the participation?

The costs of students are covered as follows:
  • Accommodation
  • Travel to Budapest and back
  • Lunch and snacks every day, coffee breaks
  • Farewell dinner
  • Social event
Note: Students have to cover ONLY the local public transport cost in Budapest. 

HOW TO APPLY to the Budapest Summer School

We expect applications of students from PORTFOLIO Erasmus+ project partner universities who are engaged to develop solutions for pressing social challenges with the help of digital tools, are ready to learn and work in internationally distributed teams. 

If you are interested in applying to the summer school from Aalto, write a free format email where you briefly indicate i) the reasons being interested and motivated to participate, ii) why you should be chosen and iii) what micro-courses you plan to take before the summer school.  Note: Even if you plan to take only one (1) micro-course, you still can apply to the Summer School (if you are interested, just send a few lines as requested above and test your chances).

Send your application to send to your teacher (olli-pekka.mutanen@aalto.fi) and set questions to your local teachers (of your university), the DL is the 15th of April.

Representatives of partner universities will evaluate the applications and inform about the decision until the first week of May. 

​Summer School is a 2 ECTS course, all costs of participation are covered. 


For more info and enquiries: >> olli-pekka.mutanen@aalto.fi 

Summer School presentation (Click for slides here).

Last modified: Friday, 12 April 2024, 10:15 AM