Opinto-opas

Tavoitteet (OJ)

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

Sisältö (OJ)

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

Arviointikriteerit, hyväksytty/hylätty (OJ)

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.

Aika ja paikka

This course is executed like a proper internship so please prepare to work on weekdays (Monday-Friday), each day from 9 to 15. Book your calendar for this course during 2.5.-21.6.2023.

Preliminary schedule for joint coaching sessions live in Tampere:

Week 1: Tue 2.5. at 9-15 (kick-off), Thu 4.5. at 13-15
Week 2: Mon 8.5. at 13-15, Wed 10.5. at 12-14, Thu 11.5. at 13-15
Week 3: Mon 15.5. at 13-15, Wed 17.5. at 13-15, Fri 19.5. at 13-15
Week 4: Mon 22.5. at 13-15, Wed 24.5. at 13-15, Thu 25.5. at-13-15
Week 5: Mon 29.5. at 12-14, Wed 31.5. at 13-15, Thu 1.6. at 13-15
Week 6: Tue 6.6. at 12-14, Wed 7.6. at 13-15, Thu 8.6. at 13-15
Week 7: Mon 12.6. at 12-14, Wed 14.6. at 13-15, Thu 15.6. at 13-15
Week 8: Mon 19.6. at 12-14, Tue 20.6. at 9-14

Small changes in the schedule might be possible.

Arviointiasteikko

Hyväksytty/hylätty

Opiskelumuodot ja opetusmenetelmät

-Teamwork to work with the business partner’s case and challenge
-Joint coaching sessions
-Tools and materials distributed in on the course and by the business partner
-Team-based coaching sessions
-Lectures and materials provided by other professionals

Opiskelijan ajankäyttö ja kuormitus

10 ects = 270 hours

Team and independent work for the business case challenge (including communication with stakeholders) approx. 215 h

Joint coaching sessions approx. 55 h

Harjoittelu- ja työelämäyhteistyö

Possibility to complete the course as an internship/practical training (working time 6 h per day, 36 days). In this case, please contact your degree's guiding teacher for the internship agreement. NB: The internship will be an agreement between student, guiding teacher and HUBS/ TAMK. The business partner will give the student team a case to work with but won't be a party in the internship agreement. Students will meet their business case providers in the kick-off session of the program.

Lisätietoja opiskelijoille

https://hubs.fi/en/studies/study-calendar/summer-internship-with-startups/
Please, sign up for the course here: https://forms.office.com/e/JXbVkBXx5a

Arviointikriteerit - hyväksytty/hylätty (Ei käytössä, kts Opintojakson Arviointikriteerit ylempänä)

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.