Innovation challenges (2 cr)

Objectives (course unit)

Innovation challenges -course presents you a set of working life and societal challenges and invites you to find solution proposals. The goal is to practice innovative thinking and promote sustainable development. This is done in multidisciplinary team working together with a coach/ coaches. You will work together with the assigning organization.

After the course, you:
- can use Designt Thinking –principles in an innovation project
- can validate the ideas and prototypes in different target groups
- understand the challenge from the customer's and end-users' perspectives
- can evaluate the solutions from the sustainable point of view
- can adapt to multidisciplinary teamwork environment
- know more about your own strengths and capabilities
- pitch the solution proposals in English

More info: https://hubs.fi/en/studies/study-calendar/

Content (course unit)

Preliminary tasks
Getting to know each other and teaming up
Explore the challenge and phenomena around it
Understand the problem
Ideating
Validation of ideas
Prototyping
Testing the prototype with real users
Presenting the final solution
Feedback discussions: team, coach and stakeholder

Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)

To pass the course, student has actively participated the lectures and teamwork, demonstrates to have understood the given challenge and has shown initiative to provide a solution. Student has proven to propose ideas to team members, he/ she can plan idea validation and reflect on how sustainable the solution is as well as develop the idea further. Student has offered solution together with the team.

A student will receive a failing grade if he or she does not participate the lectures, teamwork or any other activity that is part of the course and project plan. Further reluctance to interact with team members, propose ideas, validate leads to failing grade.

Assessment scale

Pass/Fail

Further information

https://hubs.fi/en/studies/