Skills you won't
learn at university
CDTM is an interdisciplinary program between university and real-world innovation. Working hands-on with industry partners, you build practical skills in technology management, entrepreneurship and digital product development.
Trend Seminar
Your kickstart for consultancy skills. Work in rotating teams over six to seven weeks, analyse future business environments and publish a professional trend report.
- Six to seven weeks with rotating teams
- Publish professional trend reports for companies
- Develop strategic thinking and scenario planning
- Sustainable aviation technologies, with Lufthansa Technik
- Construction industry innovation, with Rover Group
- Technology in elderly care, with Solimar
Managing Product Development
Develop problem-solving skills with digital products. Create viable, cost-effective solutions with first-class companies over twelve weeks.
- Twelve weeks with the same interdisciplinary team
- Solutions for real problems of a sector
- A product fair open to the public
- Working prototypes, from the idea to deployment
- Deep tech solutions for industry
- Technology transfer applications
- Construction safety control systems

Entrepreneurship Laboratory
Act as consulting entrepreneurs. For twelve weeks, build services and business models for real companies while developing strategic thinking.
- Twelve weeks with the same interdisciplinary team
- One day a week at the project partner's site
- Business models and strategic solutions
- A network of doctors for online consultations
- Digital service models for smart production companies
- A B2B multichannel sales strategy for the heating sector

Electives
Courses on a wide range of topics that complement what you know, from 3D printing to Python programming.
- A wide range of topics alongside the core courses
- Flexible formats, depending on the elective
- From technical skills to creative applications
- Skills not taught at a traditional university
- Design Thinking for Social Innovation
- 3D Printing Workshop
- Self Leadership Backbone

For UV and UPV students
With a program that is fully funded by local and regional governments, CDTM selects the top students from both UV and UPV to participate in a community of people from different backgrounds who share one goal: to build what is to come.
Time at CDTM is split between the three core courses, the Trend Seminar, Managing Product Development and the Entrepreneurship Laboratory, along with Taskforces that take on real-world challenges with industry partners.
If you are ready to push your limits, whatever your background, apply now.

