Study Guide

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)

Further information (course unit)

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 (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.

Location and time

5.3.2025 Kick off: Online, Zoom and Howspace

6.-10.3.2025 Independent teamwork, Online, Howspace

11.-14.3.2025 SPRINT Innovation Festival on Campus @TAMK

27.3.2024 After SPRINT, Online

Exam schedules

No exam

Assessment methods and criteria

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

Contact, virtual.

Student workload

3 cr = approximately 81 h of students' work. Participating in the event days, both online and in person, is an absolute prerequisite for participating in the Sprint Innovation Festival.

Completion alternatives

There is no optional method of completion. The student must participate in all sections according to the schedule.

Practical training and working life cooperation

Sprint Innovation Festival involves work-life partners, companies, and organizations from various fields to support and spar students in understanding phenomena and problems. The partners are involved in different phases of the process and evaluate the team’s solutions on the last day of the event.

International connections

In addition to students from Tampere Universities, there are participants from 2-3 international partner universities.

Further information

https://hubs.fi/sprint-innovation-festival/