Eight FSPAC doctoral students were part of the mentoring team for the third edition of FSPAC Living Lab, a programme in which faculty students spend six months developing real solutions to challenges brought by partner institutions.
Alongside student teams and faculty mentors, Diana Cornea and Vlad Tolan from the Doctoral School of Communication, Public Relations and Advertising and Mihaela Furculiță, Ioana Nisioi, Alexandru Todea, Alida Pal, Paula Beudean and Arianna Lucuț from the Doctoral School of Administration and Public Policy coordinated the nine teams of this edition, each bringing to the process both research expertise and the ability to keep a team together throughout a complex project, accompanying students through multiple stages of the design thinking process.
The challenges of this edition came from partners across the public, private and non-profit sectors and covered a wide range of topics from the inclusion of elderly people and the future of banking services, to recruitment in organisations influenced by AI and the promotion of rural tourism.
Partners of the third edition were Cluj-Napoca City Hall, Cluj-Napoca Municipal Clinical Hospital, Cluj County Prefect’s Institution, Cluj County School Inspectorate, Accenture, BMW TechWorks, BCR, GAL Someș-Transilvan and Sports Festival.