As the program has reached it’s halfway mark, here’s some facts,

ITP 2011 in numbers:

105 days from start to finish
24 BT Students
23 SED Students
14 Collaborating Companies
12 Student Projects
9 Weeks of lectures
7 Visiting professors
4 Dedicated Project weeks
3,5 months of intensive project work
3 Staff members
2 Subprograms
1 Summer

to learn about IT, Design, Strategy, Technology and team work.

“ITP in 65 seconds”

Yours,
ITP Staff

We received a good number of applications to ITP 2011 and all applicants have been informed about the results of the selection by Email.

List of selected students can be found from the ITP website.

Yours,
ITP Staff

ITP still has a few places open in both subprograms. We didn’t get enough high quality applicants in the first application round so we decided to take in few more excellent students.

Subprograms:
- Business & Technologies (BT)
- Strategy & Experience Design (SED)

ITP 2011 will take place between May 16th and August 26th, 2011.

Application deadline: Friday 15th of April @ 16:00

More information about the program and application procedure can be found from ITP website.

Check out the video! “ITP in 65 seconds”

Yours,
ITP Staff

Extended application period now open and new deadline is Friday 15.4. @ 16:00.

ITP still has a few places open in both subprograms. We didn’t get enough high quality applicants in the first application round.

Check out the video! “ITP in 65 seconds”

Yours,
ITP Staff

Application period for ITP 2011 has ended and student selection results are now out.

You can find the list of selected students from the ITP website.

Yours,
ITP Staff

Results of the selection will be announced on Friday 25th of March on ITP website.

Yours,
ITP Staff

Apply now for the Information Technology Program (ITP) 2011
ITP is an intensive summer program with world class lecturers.

The program consists of two simultaneous subprograms with different areas of concentration. The subprograms in 2011 are:

- Business & Technologies (BT)
- Strategy & Experience Design (SED)

As in previous years, both subprograms are worth 24 ECTS credits and are recognized as a minor subject in the M.Sc. program at School of Economics. ITP studies can be extended to 30 ECTS with extra work and are thus recognized as a minor subject in the B.Sc. program at School of Economics.

ITP 2011 will take place between May 16th and August 26th, 2011.

APPLICATIONS
The deadline for the applications is Friday, March 18th @ 16:00.

More information about the program and application procedure can be found from ITP website.

Yours,
ITP Staff

Enthusiasm, practical work, shared goals, good friends, hard work, big emotions and a magnificent experience. A long list I would say. But those were the words I first came up with, when I began to remember my summer in the ITP SED subprogram in 2010.

Coming up with so many descriptions is obviously a sign that the course affected me deeply. It improved my approach to working together in a team and gave me a wider perspective on the business environment we all work in and, most importantly, will work in the future. SED courses gave me a good base to learn about new media planning and tools and taught me how to use the skills I learned in the courses in practice. The feeling that you had learned something new that you can really utilize directly was very rewarding.

The role of the business case was significant during the summer. It was reflected in all the content of the courses and provided us with a field where we could practice our skills. Working on something meaningful that your client really needed and was going to use felt good but it was sometimes really hard too. We really had to do our best every day. Also, throughout the whole summer the ITP staff did their very best to provide us with all the facilities and help that we needed. We were privileged.

I came to the ITP-program from Turku School of Economics where studying is all about participating in the lectures, reading and working on group assignments, just like in any other business school in Finland. Still, before the ITP course I had never faced such an intensive atmosphere. The ITP class had a strong we-spirit and within the teams we grew really close. Feedback from the other students made the learning experience deeper than usual. It was especially refreshing to see how students from various backgrounds brought different approaches to the teams. So, I would highly recommend the ITP SED program to all of you, especially to those coming from outside of Aalto University.

Lauri Pitkänen
Strategy & Experience Design subprogram
Student of Turku School of Economics.

After an academic year the idea of spending the whole summer studying doesn’t maybe sound as the most attractive option. During the sunny summer days I also didn’t want to attend just normal lectures where you only sit down and listen to the professors. SED was something else and I was really happy and pleased with my choice.

The intensive three week courses and especially the hands-on working style on the courses are something you can’t normally have in your university studies. All the theory and different methods learned in the courses were put right away in use in the form of different exercises and in the project work that was done through the whole summer.

The project work involved a lot of work but it was really rewarding to see how this kind of projects move through different phases from the beginning till the end. In the end of the summer our team was really satisfied when we finally after 3,5 months of hard work had the final outcome of our project in our hands.

The summer wasn’t anyway only studying and working. The best part of SED was the whole big picture. The free time activities were great and I got a bunch of new experiences and met a lot of interesting people.

Now after a couple of months I still think I couldn’t have spent the summer in a better way.

Petteri Häkkinen
Strategy & Experience Design Subprogram
Student of Aalto University School of Science and Technology

ITP is an intensive summer program with world class lecturers.

The program consists of two simultaneous subprograms with different areas of concentration. The subprograms in 2011 are:

- Business & Technologies (BT)
- Strategy & Experience Design (SED)

Both subprograms are worth 24 ECTS credits and are recognized as a minor subject in the M.Sc. program at School of Economics. ITP studies can be extended to 30 ECTS with extra work and are thus recognized as a minor subject in the B.Sc. program at School of Economics.

ITP 2011 will take place between May 16th and August 26th, 2011.

APPLICATIONS
The deadline for the applications is Friday, March 18th @ 16:00.

More information about the program and application procedure can be found from ITP website.

Yours,
ITP Staff