E3 Forum

About the Event

About us and our event E3 stands for Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship. E3 represents the key fields where a young graduate will seek a professional career and are focus themes of this initiative. We are an informal gathering of enthusiastic, passionate and hard-working young people, willing to change the way society looks at the interactions within the scientific, educational and professional triangle. The E3 Forum is an international conference promoted by a team lead by PhD candidates from the MIT Portugal Program (www.mitportugal.org). We are a multicultural and multidisciplinary group of highly trained graduate students from a unique and exciting environment that combines European culture and education with the American entrepreneurial spirit and know-how. As doctoral students, and given the wide diversity of skills and competencies acquired during the PhD path, we nurture the idea that it is possible to contribute positively in addressing the challenges of a knowledge society requiring multidisciplinary thinking and in the establishment of relations between business and universities to leverage their potential. Our mission The mission of E3 Forum is to add value to knowledge through the creation of synergies between students, the Academia, Industry, entrepreneurs, and policy makers. It is therefore an advantageous and inspiring environment for the discussion of strategic future directions for research, employment and entrepreneurship and to subsequently disseminate the outcome with the society (experts and non-experts, such as lawmakers and general public), bringing forth practical ideas, collaborations and action plans. Our Value Proposition We aim of E3 Forum to be a stage for students to expose their work in close connection with all the social agents that influence and are influenced by their work. This meeting also seeks to enlarge the students’ network by providing a space for companies, universities, and entrepreneurs to meet students and share their thoughts about what is the role, in a knowledge-based society, of a professional with a PhD, and at the same time provide the students with information related to career paths in Academia and Industry, as well as good examples of the creation of new companies, while elucidating the opportunities in this area in Portugal. By achieving those goals, the conference is filling the gap between research and current practice, between students and society, and between academic studies and “real world” problems. We believe this is the right moment to build a new generation of professionals. The Goals of this Forum are the following: - Create an informal environment to discuss education, employment and entrepreneurship; - Increase the social and corporate awareness to a new generation of young professionals; - Build up partnerships and collaborations between students, Industry and Academia based on the research outcomes; - Encourage entrepreneurship in a new generation of young professionals in corporate, academic, and social environments.