DO School Competition in Technology and Music in Germany

Are you interested in using technology to enrich the connection between music and lifestyle?

The DO School in cooperation with Telekom Electronics Beats has launched Detusche Telekom Smart Connection Challenge for 2018 to bring together 20 talented young people from around the world to create new ways of fostering meaningful connections through music and engagement with lifestyle products. Young people everywhere use digital technology to express themselves and exchange ideas about various topics, and recent advances offer great potential to do so despite differences in time and location. Through its four-week program (June 18 to July 13, 2018), the Smart Connection Challenge aims to find new ways of using technology to enrich the existing music and lifestyle program “Telekom Electronics Beats (TEB)” for exponential growth, in which participants will be guided through a process of finding new nodes of connection that resonate with young people. Applicants must be over 18 and have demonstrated a creative spirit in fields such as – but not limited to – music, design, social entrepreneurship, technology, activism, journalism, education and the arts. They must also have a good enough level of English to follow the program.

Selected participants will receive a full scholarship covering tuition as well as travel costs to and from Berlin and local accommodation for the program duration. Meals and local transportation might be covered in extraordinary circumstances for those who would otherwise not be able to join the program.  Participants will also get the opportunity to join a global community in which they will be exposed to a network of international experts and make lifelong connections with like-minded peers who share their passion, while creating music and lifestyle experiences that address their needs and aspirations. Furthermore, the challenge provides the opportunity to take a real-life innovation from the idea phase into the implementation phase – selected products will be piloted in Europe, where Telekom Electronic Beats already has an expansive market presence.