Jewellery, Technology & Business

The Jewellery, Technology & Business programme is a cross-disciplinary education. Here you will gain knowledge of how to implement market research, design, production and marketing of jewellery in a commercial aspect. It’s about how jewellery is conceptualised, produced, marketed and sold nationally and internationally. This through the use of design-thinking, business analysis and technology. The programme puts particular emphasis on preparing you to enter the jewellery industry – from an international perspective. Throughout the full programme, students will be working with jewellery design, product development, modern technology, business, aesthetics, materials, concepts, trends, cultural understanding, innovation, marketing, and value and supply chains. In short, you will gain knowledge about the entire process from idea to sold jewellery product. EK has a fully equipped jewellery workshop where the students can create prototypes and develop techniques for jewellery production. There is also a fully equipped casting area and lovely open learning areas where the students can work in groups or use the space for designing and studying. Our fully equipped jewellery workshop has 46 workshop benches shared by 2-3 students from different semesters. At EK students have access to several other workshop facilities that has a wide range of machines and equipment i.e., a CNC milling machine, a laser cutter or different 3D printers, allowing them to elaborate on their ideas from concept to final product. Exchange semester in Jewellery, Technology & Business Exchange students are accepted into the 3rd semester. lt is required that students have completed at least 1 year of studies in a related field, such as jewellery design, jewellery arts, or similar, prior to the exchange. Prerequisities Proficiency in Rhinoceros 7 (beginner/medium level), intro level to design thinking, and intro level skills to the jewellery workshop.