For students
Want to get a sense of the real industry, challenge yourself with interesting industry topics or seek future job opportunities? All students are welcome to take part in the industry-academia design cooperation. Pick a challenge in line with industry trends and submit a design proposal, and a collaborating enterprise will provide coaching resources such as general industry info, tech consultation, model subsidiaries and sponsorship. We invite outstanding student teams to submit their design proposals and collaborate with the industry for some brainstorming which will hopefully lead to creative and practical outcomes.
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A Submission begins on October,1, 2024 and ends at 17:00 October 16, 2024.
A If challenge-proposing enterprises have the intention of turning their assisted project outcome into a merchandise or launch it to the market, they can talk to the creators for ensuing business collaboration. Within one year after the YODEX exhibition ends, challenge-proposing enterprises are prioritized over other enterprises for business negotiation regarding the intellectual copyright of the design project outcome. Should the shortlisted teams wish to sell their intellectual property right to a third party, they need to first inform the challenge-proposing enterprise and obtain its consent.
A For details, please go to “Industry-Academia Design Cooperation” on the YODEX website (https://www.yodex.com.tw/enterprise_topic).
A No, the student teams that sign up for the industry-academia cooperation have to seek their own consultants from their university/college faculty, and complete the design project with concerted efforts of the consultants and the enterprises.
A Adhering to the spirit of cross-sector collaboration, we encourage students to form their teams regardless of their departments and universities but based on expertise required by the challenges proposed by enterprises. They can sign up as individuals or as a team (maximum 4 people in one team ).welcome student teammates of different expertise for the purpose of project integrity.
A Students can submit design proposals in response to topics of their own choice, as well as submit the same design proposal or multiple design proposals to more than two topics. They can also submit multiple design proposals to the same topic. For as many students as possible to take part, if the finalist teams receive approval from more than one topic, each team can only collaborate with one topic at most.
A What is most valuable about taking part in industry-academia cooperation projects is that students get to apply their training to the industry. Besides competition prizes, TDRI also provides subsidies for models and transportation. Should the design proposal have any follow-up development, collaborating enterprises will also offer relevant assistance. The Industry-Academia Cooperation pavilion at the YODEX exhibition gives great exposure to shortlisted design proposals.
A For the Round-1 submission, the proposal would be sufficient, as long as the presentation panel covers the preliminary design, such as design drawing and design concepts. Once chosen for the Round-2 selection, student competitors will get to implement their design concepts to a certain extent, given the coaching from collaborating enterprises.
A As the industry-academia cooperation outcome is the fruit of concerted efforts of the student team and the collaborating enterprise, obtaining consent from collaborating enterprises is required before taking part in competitions organized by other enterprises. To enter shortlisted design projects into competitions organized by other enterprises in Taiwan or overseas requires consent from the collaborating enterprises as to whether to list them as the co-creator of the design to avoid any misunderstandings.
