Art & Design Incubation
MOME has set itself the ambitious goal of becoming the leading creative industries and innovation center in Central and Eastern Europe by 2030. To support this goal, in 2022 we launched an art and design-centric incubation program to support young creators, researchers, designers and emerging entrepreneurs in Hungary.
Applications are invited from recent graduates of MOME. Selected applicants will receive personalized mentoring and financial support to further develop their master’s project.
Categories
1.Art and Innovation
Outstanding art projects that push the boundaries of traditional art forms to create unique experiences or engage audiences in new and innovative ways.
2.Research and Innovation
Promising scientific and applied research projects whose further development provides a solid basis for academic or market exploitation.
3.Product Innovation
Innovative products or services with strong market potential that address the most pressing problems of today and tomorrow, significantly improve the user experience or integrate sustainable practices.
Program benefits
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Personal mentoring
Connect with MOME's network of national, international and interdisciplinary mentors to get personalized advice from outstanding design, innovation and creative entrepreneurs.
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Access to research and design expertise
MOME's design researchers, lecturers, teachers and students can provide value-added creative support for your projects.
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Access to the university infrastructure
Participants can use the MOME infrastructure, such as the TechPark and a dedicated coworking space.
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Networking opportunities
Participants can build their network of contacts within MOME and meet professionals, curators and entrepreneurs experienced in the local and regional creative industries and arts ecosystem.
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Interdisciplinary sessions
Workshops, open discussions and interdisciplinary (peer-to-peer) learning sessions that collectively contribute to the further development of your project.
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Funding opportunities
Students participating in the program will receive financial support to develop their project and achieve the objectives set out in the project plan. Details on the level of funding are available in the current call for proposals.
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Péter Molnár
Péter, Director of MOME's Design Institute, is an innovation strategist with over 10 years of leadership experience. He has contributed to meaningful innovation through over 50 projects, 1/3 of which were international, with people from Switzerland, USA, Japan, UK, Austria and more.
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Dr. Bori Fehér
Bori is an architect and social designer focused on resilience and sustainability. She is the Social Design Hub Lead at MOME Innovation Center, where she facilitates practitioners, students and researchers in social, eco and humanitarian design projects, works with underprivileged communities.
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Lili Zoé Érmezei
Lili is a strategist and organisational psychologist with a creative and business leadership background who develops innovative organisations, brands and businesses based on a human-centred approach. She is the founder of Helsinki Mind, while also an external lecturer and consultant of MOME.
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Máté Barna
Máté is Education Development Manager at MOME as well as a trainer of Cellux Csoport. In addition to service design, he is active in communications and institutional organisational and educational development fields. He regularly applies the methodologies and tools of service design and design thinking in these fields as well.
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Tamás Fogarasy
As Head of the Interaction Design MA at MOME and Managing Partner of Exalt Interactive, Tamás has been helping brands to create or transform their services by finding the right balance between business goals, ethics and people's needs.
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Dr. Flóra Anna Gubicz
Flóra is MOME's Lead IP Strategist, a jurist with experience in the area of intellectual property (IP), and internet law. She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Pázmány Péter Catholic University in 2016. During her doctoral studies, her main research interests are the copyright protection of photographs and the necessity and extent of the term of protection.
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Mihály Minkó
Mihály is a data visualisation expert with a passion for visualisation of everything, be it digital or physical. He currently works at the MOME Innovation Centre as a researcher and has been teaching data visualization for MOME Open courses for several years.
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Attila Maxim Ferenczi
Attila is the CEO and Founder of Recobin Ltd. and he has been involved in waste management, education and awareness raising for nearly 20 years. His company's focus is on the production of environmentally friendly selective waste bins and the optimisation of waste management with a facility management approach.
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Atanas Enev
Atanas is an architect, designer, and entrepreneur with experience in managing complex multi-stakeholder projects and developing innovative products from renewable materials. He is the Manager and Founder of Biomyc Ltd., and was named one of Forbes Bulgaria’s 30 under 30 most influential people that drive innovation and progress.
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Márk Szabó
Márk started his career at Microsoft in various roles ranging from Program Manager to Cloud Solution Architect while helping Hungarian startups and Independent Software Vendors scale on the cloud. He is a regular speaker at conferences about future technologies and their impact on our everyday lives in the next decades.
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Judit Boros, PhD
Judit Boros is a design strategist and researcher at MOME Innovation Center, interested in the intersection of the designed and the natural world. She holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences from Central European University. Her research investigates how design can contribute to sustaining and enhancing urban ecosystems.
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Tamás Békási
As Business Creation Project Manager for the RIS Region in EIT Health, Tamás's top priority is to support and mentor European healthcare professionals from the ideation phase, through the market entry, to the global expansion, built on his expertise acquired in the past 15 years.
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Péter Langmár
Péter is Chief Investment Officer at STRT Holding and Executive Board Member of Green Fox Academy. He is a tech entrepreneur with SAAS, education, IT consulting, and seed VC experience. His startup, Brickflow took part in the Estonian and Chilean accelerators.
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Nóra Szeles
Nora is an award-winning economist, university lecturer at MOME, a capital market expert with intensive and extensive experience in financial services, known for the introduction of futures trading at the Budapest Stock Exchange and for launching equity crowdfunding, which is her central research domain.
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Richárd Wenczel
Richárd is an experienced sales and business development professional with an extensive experience from startups to multinationals, from government to entrepreneurship. He is an acknowledged coach, currently working as Senior Manager at Deloitte and acting as Board Member of Startup Hungary.
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Gyöngyvér Balog
Gyöngyvér is the co-founder and managing director of Impact Company, a social enterprise partnering with mission-driven organizations to provide meaningful work for underprivileged communities. Her communications career took her to Africa and the Middle East while working for the UN.
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Alexis Latham
Alexis has been working as a communications trainer and coach for over 20 years, applying tools and techniques from the world of theatre and film. Simultaneously he is an established actor and runs his own theatre company, Scallabouche, where he works as a director and theatre maker.
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Orsolya Galántai
Orsolya's been playing a significant role in founding, building up and leading an international leading future studies hub, Spark Institute. Coming from the creative field with 10+ years’ experience, having a background in corporate communication and marketing. Her career expands over several industries including finance, IT, and education.
Team
The application form must be completed and submitted by 11:59 PM on 1 July 2024 (Monday).
The evaluation of applications will take place between 1 and 10 July, after which the most promising candidates will be invited to a personal interview, which will be sent to the e-mail address provided on the application form. The personal interviews will take place between 15 and 19 July at an individually agreed time.
The personal interviews will focus on the nature and feasibility of the candidate's objectives and motivation.
Project leaders selected for the program will be notified by 22 July via the email address provided on the application form.
During the program, you can meet external mentors, experts and representatives of different companies who can help you develop your project and career in a next step after the program. Funding for incubated projects is an opportunity for participants
- to cover the cost of a Design Award and receive professional support in putting together a proposal,
- to build a team for creating a major installation,
- to join a research team,
- to build manufacturer/partner relationships with national and international companies,
- to establish a legal basis for the future of your product/service,
- to give more visibility to your creation, your project, your work to date.
Currently only recent MA graduates of MOME are eligible to apply.
We welcome applications from motivated, recent MA graduates who are sufficiently committed to developing their master's thesis and maximizing the opportunities offered by incubation, who have a long-term vision and who have clear and achievable goals for how our incubation program can support their project, research and product development.
We are looking for applicants who can attend all individual and collective consultations and can commit to a minimum of 20 hours per week of development as required by the program.
Teamwork and English language skills are an advantage but not a prerequisite for application.
No, and your application will not be adversely affected if you apply individually. However, we always encourage individual idea generators to proactively seek out similarly motivated individuals with additional skills who can contribute to the successful development and implementation of the project in the long term.
The program invites artists, curators, researchers, designers and entrepreneurs from the creative industries and the field who are committed to nurturing the talent of the participants and who will provide expertise, networking and opportunities to support the project and the career path of the graduating student. Most of our mentors are part of the successful alumni team of MOME and have reconnected with the university in the last few years as mentors, tutors, experts or other collaborations.
Our aim is to ensure that each participant receives the most appropriate mentoring and peer support. If this process can be best supported by the previous supervisor or thesis advisor, we will do our best to ensure that the collaboration can continue.
The currently active application is open only to recent MA graduates from MOME. The primary objective of the program, which will start in the fall, is to provide graduate students with the opportunity to further develop and implement their master thesis or project and to establish their career.
The knowledge and experience gained in a Business to Design course or in HSUP can be a great advantage for students applying in the 'Product Innovation' category, but the program does not only aim at market exploitation and creative business creation, but also aims to support autonomous career builders and researchers who prefer artistic or scientific careers.
Currently, only recent MA graduates from MOME are invited to apply for an active call to further develop their master thesis. An information session will be held at the end of August for the successful graduate students to learn more about the program.
The prograe will run from 2 September to 13 December. The milestones set out in the development plan developed in early September will be presented in a collective consultation at regular intervals. The program will end with a presentation of the development process and the product/project in mid-December.
All collective consultations and joint programmes take place face-to-face on the university campus (1121 Budapest, Zugligeti út 9-25, 1121 Budapest). The nature of the individual consultations with the mentor (face-to-face/online) in the incubation program is decided jointly by the mentor and the participant.
The program is primarily in Hungarian, but there is the possibility of English language consultations during individual mentoring. Knowledge of English is important but not essential to complete the program.