Napoli Fintech Lab -Financial Innovation Lab-

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Napoli Fintech Lab
Attributes
Type of availability
research and commercial
Kind of shared resource
service
Category of shared resource
lab
Shareable
Yes
WWW
https://www.disaq.uniparthenope.it/fintechlab/en/

Location

University
University of Naples Parthenope
Location

Department of Business and Quantitative Studies

Pacanowski Palace

Generale Parisi Street, 13 – 4th Floor

80132

Naples

Italy

Contact person and e-mail
Contact person
Daniele Previtali
Contact person e-mail
daniele.previtali@uniparthenope.it
Short description of shared resource

Napoli FinTech Lab is a top-tier, fully-funded educational initiative for emerging talents. Founded on a financial innovation workshop, it sees the participation of universities, key financial sector companies, a technological partner, fintech startups, and students. Its aim is to establish a university-based fintech ecosystem that actively contributes to the digital transformation of the banking and financial sectors. The laboratory offers a qualified, fast and free high-level training plan, enabling the acquisition of distinctive professional knowledge and skills in designing fintech products and services.The aim is to train a new job of the Fintech Project Manager, that is, a complexity manager, able to make the Financial and Technological parts interact effectively. The laboratory is a Playground, where experimenting with a practical approach to training. Study and Do because designing means learning by exploring. The laboratory’s partners invest in new talent, bringing innovation to the university, experimenting with co-design logic, and making 10 internships available to the best participants. The Laboratory has two distinct paths and distinct track. The Open Innovation track offers a specialized high-level training program focused on Financial Intermediation and Fintech, Python Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Design Thinking, Digital Design, and Functional Analysis. This training is designed to equip participants with the necessary skills to undertake real fintech projects, as proposed by the lab's partners. Participants are given the chance to craft fintech prototypes both in terms of design and technological-digital dimensions. On the other hand, the Start-up track provides training on Business Design Thinking, complemented by external advisory sessions. This is geared towards helping participants formulate a compelling pitch to be presented to the lab's partners and potential investors.

Scientific disciplines
Economics and business
Details

Labels/certification

Labels/certification

The Laboratory offers attending students the opportunity to carry out the curricular internship provided for in the study plan of their home university. The student must verify the availability and validity of the internship for their home university/institution. The execution of the internship is subject to a preliminary evaluation by the Laboratory Director. For students enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree program at the School of Economics and Law of the University of Naples "Parthenope", attending the Laboratory qualifies them for 6 ECTS credits for bachelor's degrees and 9 ECTS credits for master's degrees among the optional exams, provided the student successfully completes all activities outlined by the Laboratory. The University of Naples "Parthenope" will issue a participation certificate for the Napoli Fintech Lab project to those enrolled, both in pathway 1 and pathway 2, who have fulfilled the attendance requirements, passed the proficiency exams (where applicable), and completed the activities outlined in the Laboratory's training program, as described above.

Rules of access to the shared resource

Proposed rules of access to the shared resource

The advanced training project "Napoli FinTech Lab" (hereinafter also referred to as "the Laboratory") is activated by the Department of Business and Quantitative Studies of the University of Naples "Parthenope."

Consistent with the Third Mission objectives of the Parthenope University, the Laboratory promotes the economic and social growth of the territory in collaboration with the reference financial industry. It allows attendance to a high-level training program free of charge to deserving students and startups. The aim is to offer a study-work path designed to acquire technical skills for the development of products, services, and business ideas in the context of technological innovation in the provision of financial services.

The Napoli Fintech Lab provides two distinct paths, each structured differently in terms of access and proposed activities. The two paths are:

  1. The "open innovation" path, which entails laboratory activities for the development of fintech projects.
  2. The "start-up" path, focused on incubating business ideas.

For the open-innovation path: • Selected participants follow a specialized high-level training program on Financial Intermediation and Fintech, Data Analysis, Technological Innovation, Python Programming, Design Thinking, Digital Design, and Functional Analysis. This preparation is for real fintech projects proposed by laboratory partners. Participants have the opportunity to develop fintech solutions both in design and technological-digital dimensions, working in teams also composed of laboratory partners. At intermediate moments and at the end of the project development phase, teams present the developed fintech solution to the proposing partner.

For the start-up path: • The startups follow a training path on Business Design Thinking, with the aim of preparing a pitch to present to the laboratory partners.

The development of participants' technical skills is made possible thanks to a training plan and laboratory activities that integrate theoretical content with more technical and practical aspects. To this end, teaching activities are carried out by university professors, managers, and experts in technological innovation applied to financial services, supplemented by seminars, workshops, and other in-depth activities previously indicated and communicated by the Director, Prof. Daniele Previtali.  As part of the laboratory activities, participants will have the opportunity to work alongside reference operators in the financial sector and will also benefit from supervision and mentoring of development projects. The Laboratory is structured in modules composed of teaching units that organically and functionally follow the technical development of the fintech project.