EIT Digital Master School can boost your future in FinTech

As with all EIT Digital Master School programmes, this one not only offers top-notch specialised training, but it also provides innovation and entrepreneurship skills.

In disruptive fields like FinTech, practitioners need to understand the challenges and benefits of developing and supporting new ideas, according to Pina Stranger.

"Students with a background in data science and a specialisation in innovation and entrepreneurship can provide a great contribution," he says.

The "minor" in innovation and entrepreneurship offered by the course empowers students to develop their own businesses and pursue their own innovative ideas, Pina Stranger says, adding: "While the technology major allows students to get recruited by a company, it is the acquisition of entrepreneurship skills that will allow them to boost their professional career."

As Pina Stranger explains, these skills are useful for more than simply launching a new business.

"Innovation and entrepreneurship courses provide students not only with the required skills and expertise in business and startup, but also with the skills to develop critical thinking, which is definitively an added value for an employee or an entrepreneur."

A further advantage enjoyed by all EIT Digital Master School programmes is the way they bring students into the powerful EIT Digital community, Europe's largest digital innovation ecosystem. The network of more than 350 European corporations, SMEs, start-ups, universities, and research centres, provides valuable connections, during and after their study.

Students prepare their master's thesis in collaboration with a company, developing a business plan for the commercial exploitation of their project - essentially a roadmap they could use to launch their own startup. They work in an internship with an EIT Digital company partner, gaining practical experience and making connections that often lead to a job.

There are many opportunities for students to leverage the EIT Digital network, even after graduation. For example, all alumni get exclusive access to the EIT Digital Job Portal - a one-stop-shop of curated job opportunities. And as a member of the alumni community, students join a global family of entrepreneurs, business executives, top researchers, and thought leaders.

With all these advantages, according to Pina Stranger, "studying Fintech in the EIT Consortium is a great opportunity to develop the necessary skills to build your professional career in this exciting trans-sectoral field."