Application deadline: Monday March 10th at 23:59
Teams notified: Friday March 14th
Course dates: Tuesday evenings from May 6th, final presentations on Tuesday June 17th
- Location: Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) – West Cambridge site, Zoom links also available
- Sessions run from 7pm-10pm with pizza from 6.30pm
Have you ever wondered how new ideas can help people in the developing world? Are you interested in what Cambridge can do to help? If so, then our Development i-Teams programme is for you!
Development i-Teams investigates ways in which real Cambridge innovations can be used in low and middle income countries to improve people’s lives in a sustainable way, to help the world meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
By joining a Development i-Team, you will work for 6 weeks with students from across the University and a dedicated industry mentor. You will investigate the realities of taking a real Cambridge invention into the developing world, gaining hands-on skills and experience.
Past Development i-Teams projects include WaterScope, Majico, ApRES, Cortirio and Colorifix.
Projects for this course are:
- Amulet: A distributed patient health record for humanitarian settings
- Listo: Digitising agricultural markets in developing countries – increase transparency and expand opportunities for smallholder farmers
- Providing low-cost culturally-sensitive permanent housing for displaced communities
Development i-Teams is open to any student (under-graduate or post-graduate), post-doctoral researcher or member of staff at the University of Cambridge, Babraham and Sanger Institutes or the British Antarctic Survey, as well as any member of the Centre for Global Equality.
The programme includes weekly lectures from industry experts, team meetings and individual work. i-Teams present their final recommendations to a business and academic audience at the end of the term. The full syllabus is available here.
Past i-Teams estimate that their projects needed about 4 hours a week of individual effort in addition to the weekly sessions. As part of the projects, team members will need to contact external industry experts by phone and email – some calls and meetings may need to take place during office hours.
We are also running Innovation i-Teams in Easter term (Monday evenings with a first session on March 17th, then weekly sessions from April 28th onwards with final presentations on June 18th) – details here. You are welcome to apply for both courses, but please make your preference clear.