Sprint Innovation Festival (3cr)

Objectives (course unit)

Sprint Innovation Festival is an intensive course during which you will work as a team with your student-colleagues of different fields to create solutions to real life challenges with work life experts and organizations. The over-arching theme of the festival is sustainability. Coaches, professionals and company representatives guide you during the innovation project with variety of methods and tools. At the end of the event week every team presents their solution to the advisory board who gives feedback and evaluates the presented ideas.

The Sprint can be completed for 3 cr or 5 cr. Read more in the section Additional Information.

After the Sprint Innovation Festival student can:
• take a creative and user-centric approach (design thinking)
• initiate and advance the innovation process within a limited time
• present the idea to the customers and stakeholders in a concise and sales-like manner (pitching)
• act as a member of a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural team
• productively combine knowledge and skills from different fields
• is able to apply sustainability thinking in creating regenerative and sustainable solutions

Content (course unit)

Online Kick-off: Teaming up
• Kick off for the teamwork: roles and introductions
• Orientation to the program and innovation process
• Insights on sustainability

Online Kick-off: Teaming up (4h)
• Kick off for the team work: roles and introductions
• Orientation to the program and innovation process
• Insights on sustainability

Online Teamwork: Data and Defining the Problem
• Independent teamwork on an online platform

Event Week (4 days)
• Ideation
• Working on the top ideas
• Working on the chosen idea & building the pitch
• Presenting the outcomes

Online After-Sprint session (2h)

Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)

The course is approved when you have demonstrated active participation and commitment to each Sprint Innovation Festival section and campus day; working both independently and as a team member. Together with your team, you have successfully created sustainable solutions, presented ideas in a compelling manner, and given and received feedback. You can describe the completed innovation process, its phases, and the outcome.

Assessment scale

Pass/Fail

Teaching methods

Sprint Online is a course during which students of different fields innovate and create solutions to real cases given by a variety of companies and organizations.

Teachers, professionals and company representatives guide the innovation project with variety of methods and tools. At the end of the course every team presents their solution to judge panel who selects the best ideas. Winners are awarded in a gala.

This course has both 1 cr and 3 cr implementations: the smaller includes intensive innovation assignment and a pre-tasks. The larger implementation, 3 cr includes also an article and learning diary.

When compleated the Sprint Online student can:
- initiate and run an innovation prosess
- develop an idea and a solution based on given task
- act as a productive team member in a multidisciplinary team
- learn to combine different approaches

Further information

After completing the additional module (2 credits) of Sprint Innovation Festival, the student will be able to deepen their entrepreneurship and sustainability skills based on what was done and experienced during the Sprint. This can be achieved either by creating an implementation plan for an idea with a team or individually, or by developing a personalized plan for enhancing entrepreneurship and sustainability skills.

Assessment criteria - pass/fail (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Approved when a student is involved and committed in an active manner; e.g. can independently and as a member of the team study the assignment, ask additional questions. He/ She is capable of providing ideas, seek for solutions, present her own suggestions and give/ receive feedback. A student can independently describe the compleated innovation process, its phases and outcome.

Failed if a student is not participating to the team work. Fail may occure if student cannot descibe what was done during the innovation process, its phases, methods and outcome.