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- Publications related to different business procedures and industrial design information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.
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- Cooperation with universities, technology, and innovation support centers, etc.
Academic Initiatives
Pan-European Seal Programme
In the 2024 the Pan-European Seal Programme (PES) reached 160 partner universities from 27 EU countries and 11 EPC member states cooperating with the EUIPO and the EPO. The EUIPO is also collaborating with 7 Universities outside the EU/EPC via bilateral agreements, namely with Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Tanzania. Approximately 90 high-achieving graduates benefited from a year-long, paid traineeship at the EUIPO in 2024 through the PES programme. Together with the Young Professionals programme, a total of 110 trainees were welcomed at the EUIPO.
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This is an online platform that allows public and private partners, including law and consultancy firms, companies, EU and international organisations, national institutions, and universities to offer traineeships and/or jobs to the EUIPO Trainees alumni seeking further career opportunities following their traineeship at the EUIPO. In 2024, the total number of associated partners reached 37, and more than 140 job offers have been published in the tool since its inception.
Additional activities within the Network of Intellectual Property Academies (NIPA)
NIPA Annual meeting
The Network of IP Academies (NIPA) consists of the PES university members, the Talent Bank Associate Partners and the national IP offices. EU institutions and European university networks can also join as observers. NIPA members meet once a year to discuss an overview of the year that has passed, the traineeship programme, improvements and additional synergies that can occur between them via common projects with the EUIPO. The idea is that this event takes place after newly adopted EUIPO projects are communicated and shared with NIPA members. The Annual meeting was held on 2– 3 December 2024 in a hybrid format at the EUIPO premises with more than 100 participants with very positive feedback.
Almost 35 000 participants attended any of the multiple training events organized by the EUIPO Academy in 2023 or completed courses in the Academy Learning Portal, with an approval rate of 89%.
Major IP and non-IP events
The third edition of the EUIPO Intensive IP Educational Programme (IIPEP) offered for free to all the PES Universities’ students and the EU National IP Offices, in collaboration with WIPO, EPO, CPVO, European Commission DG AGRI, and DG RTD, lasted 10 days including sessions on trade marks, designs, plant varieties, geographical indications and patents with almost 2 000 registered participants and with an average of 800 connections per session.
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A new Learning Wallet (LW) on Geographical Indications was drafted and added to the four IP topics: Basics on IP; Intermediate on IP; Design; Absolute Grounds which were drafted for the seminars organised with the “European Institute of Innovation and Technology” (EIT, A body of the European Commission). The LW on IP matters are available in the EUIPO website for everyone.
e-Learning content in the EUIPO Academy Learning Portal
There were over 235 000 visits to the EUIPO Academy Learning Portal in 2024, more than 20 000 hours were spent on courses by our users which resulted in almost 10 000 Course Certificates issued. Relevant online content continued to be made available to the public in 2024, including the creation and production of Registered EU Designs in a nutshell to have a course in line with the Desing Legislative Reform Phase I, and of IP monetisation opportunities, an online diagnosing resource to inventory a company´s IP assets and weighing how can those assets generate revenue.
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