I I Acknowledgements We wish to thank Nordplus Horizontal that has provided funding for the seminar. The Nordplus programs offer financial support to a variety of educational cooperation between partners in the area of lifelong learning from the eight participating countries in the Baltic and Nordic re- gions. Read more at nordplusonline.org. We also wish to thank all participants, moderators, students and disruptors at the seminar. You have contributed with invaluable knowledge of interdisciplinary teamwork in a contemporary context. A special thanks to students from BAAA and NTNU who made summaries of workshops and disruptions and made role plays at the post-seminar. Bjørn Sortland and Are Holen and their team at NTNU also deserve a big ‘thank you’ since you have generously shared information, experience and learning material from the EIT work. A small part of this work is summarized in the chronicle. Finally, thank you to the project and logistics team at BAAA for the contribution to the seminar. Aarhus, June 1, 2016 Abbreviations: Editor & text production: Ulla Haahr, BAAA BAAA: Business Academy Aarhus & Lisa Krag Nygaard, BAAA EIT: Experts in Teams Proof reader: Karina Hansen, BAAA NTNU: The Norwegian University of Front page layout: Pernille Tang Science & Technology Christensen, BAAA SDU: The University of Southern Denmark Front page graphic: James Graham, New York Times Magazine II Contents Acknowledgements ....................................................................................................................... II Contents ....................................................................................................................................... III Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 1 What did we learn? ........................................................................................................................ 2 The EIT Network ............................................................................................................................ 3 The aim of the network ................................................................................................................. 3 The EIT Method ............................................................................................................................. 4 EIT process at BAAA ...................................................................................................................... 6 EIT tools & exercises ..................................................................................................................... 7 The competency triangle .......................................................................................................... 7 Idea generation ......................................................................................................................... 8 Self-reflection............................................................................................................................ 9 Facilitation .............................................................................................................................. 10 Status of the network .................................................................................................................. 12 An organizing vision for the EIT Network ................................................................................... 13 Seminar output............................................................................................................................ 14 Founding fathers of Experts in teams ........................................................................................ 14 From a researcher’s perspective ................................................................................................. 15 Summary of conference disruptions ........................................................................................... 16 Workshops................................................................................................................................... 20 Workshop: Education .............................................................................................................. 20 Workshop: Global ................................................................................................................... 22 Post seminar ................................................................................................................................ 26 Its21 seminar 2017 ..................................................................................................................... 29 Seminar program 2016 ............................................................................................................... 30 Learn more… ............................................................................................................................... 30 About Business Academy Aarhus ............................................................................................... 31 Appendix ....................................................................................................................................... 1 III Furthermore, the chronicle gathers sum- Introduction maries from the disruptions, presentations and workshops. After the seminar, you will Business Academy Aarhus is pleased to therefore receive the updated version of welcome you to the 2nd Its21 seminar: Ex- the chronicle. perts in Teams – today, tomorrow, to- gether. One task of the network is to create an or- ganizing vision for the EIT Network. This The seminar continues the work with inter- topic will be a continuous theme at the disciplinary teamwork skills for the 21st seminar. Century. The inputs from disruptors, presenters and The seminar is an activity of the Experts in interdisciplinary teams are valuable in the Teams (EIT) Network where partners from creation of an organizing vision for the EIT Norway, Sweden and Denmark collaborate Network. on developing the EIT Method even further. Welcome to the seminar. The EIT Method offers a unique framework in which students can practice collabora- tion across professional backgrounds. Ulla Haahr To be able to collaborate across disciplines Project Portfolio Manager & EIT responsible is a core competence today. The compe- The Research & Innovation department tence is in high demand from companies Business Academy Aarhus worldwide. The EIT Method enables stu- dents as future employees to inculcate this competence. The seminar offers a variety of disruptions and presentations where the EIT compe- tence is put into perspective. The value of putting together a diverse team – Hopefully the seminar will inspire you to ”and then using this diversity – is continue to work with the EIT Method at a local, regional and international level. insanely important. The Experts in Teams’ Chronicle 2016 has Flemming Horn Nielsen, Director, Dong Energy, two purposes. It offers the opportunity for oil and gas activities, 10 February 2016. you to get a brief introduction to the EIT Method. If you need further information about the EIT Method, you should consult ntnu.edu/EIT or baaa.dk/EIT. 1 curricula. So these institutions play an im- What did we learn? portant role in showing how they have han- dled the implementation of EIT. During the seminar a number of companies and universities put the EIT Method into The seminar had a workshop where partic- perspective. In general, the main conclu- ipants worked with group dynamics and fa- sion is that the competences that students cilitation and this workshop was continued gain from EIT are highly needed and de- in a post-seminar. These workshops made manded in today’s labor market. it clear that facilitation is a very difficult task and that some (or many) lecturers find Lego and Danske Bank organizes their de- it difficult to facilitate students. And some velopment processes in interdisciplinary lecturers expressed that they even felt un- teams. And these companies stressed the comfortable with this role. So how can the importance of continuing the development EIT Network contribute to a further educa- of the EIT Method. There are many exam- tion of lecturers? What kind of learning ma- ples of companies who use facilitation (in terial is need for such an effort? And how some companies called coaching) in inter- can the EIT Network unfold this across disciplinary teams and teams in general Scandinavia? and this supports one of the basic ideas of the EIT Method. The seminar in Aarhus has stressed a need for the work taking place in the EIT Network Turning to a further development of the EIT in order to develop the different areas re- Method, it is vital that the Scandinavian EIT lated to ITS21 – Interdisciplinary Teamwork Network rethink the way knowledge about Skills for the 21st Century further. the method is disseminated. There is still a need for a stronger vision that can support Until then the focal areas of the network is, the implementation of the EIT Method at among other things, the following: more education institutions. Dissemination of knowledge and ex- There is also a need for more story telling; periences regarding the implementa- good examples of how students have been tion of the EIT Method locally. offered their dream job due to their inter- Development of learning material for cultural competencies. And how do public facilitators (lecturers and senior stu-