Summer Internship with StartupsLaajuus (5 - 10 cr)

Objectives

Summer Internship with Startups is a practical 8-week experience that is executed like a proper internship. You will co-operate and work in a student team together with a local company and their business case. Summer Internship with Startups enables you to develop your expertise, as well as working life and entrepreneurial skills.

After the course, you:
- can work together in a multidisciplinary and multicultural team and co-operate with others to develop ideas and turn them into action
- understand the challenge from different stakeholders’ perspectives
- can apply knowledge and modern business development tools
- can identify ideas and opportunities and seize/apply them to a project
- can assess the consequences and impact of ideas, opportunities and actions
- know more about your own strengths and capabilities
- can pitch the solution proposals in English

Content

This course focuses on real life business development cases.

- How to turn an idea to create many-sided value?

- Customer centric idea development: learning quickly from success and failures

- How to use digital platforms/tools to evaluate the idea and creating sustainable business?

- Modern sales and marketing

The program is facilitated by a coach/coaches.

The process is:

1) gaining and sharing new information
2) active dialogue
3) experiments (learning by doing)
4) summarizing and reflecting

Assessment criteria, pass/fail

Approved when you have demonstrated commitment and productivity in 8-week teamwork project. You can do it by showing to understand the assignment, being capable of providing ideas, seeking solutions and making a presentation that is understandable to the team and business partner. You can run an experiment to the business case and can independently describe the occurred development process, its phases and outcome.

Failed if you cannot show commitment to the course activities and teamwork nor describe what was done during the business case development process, its phases, methods and outcome. You have not gained the knowledge required to run a development project.