The best week week of your study year!

Challenge is a question, issue or problem that an organization is currently working on in real life, and is given to student teams of the event by a company representative. In the past challenges have varied from developing the residential area of Hiedanranta, Tampere, to creating a reusable, transmittable gift package for children. The challenges are real, meaning that the organizations don’t just make them up – they are actually problems which the companies are trying to solve and want innovative solutions for.

Challenges come from the organizations that take part in Sprint Innovation Festival. Our project team members offer their help to the organizations in fine tuning with their challenge before its announcement, but the initial idea for it comes from the organizations themselves.

The teams are organized by our project team. We will make sure every team has the correct amount of students in it, and that the students come from as many different fields of study as possible. This way each team will have several different points of view. The teams will be organized based on enrollments before the event begins. Participants will be let known in which team they belong a week before the event.

Changing teams in the middle of the week is not, in principle, possible. We at Sprint Innovation Festival want to emphasize learning through multidisciplinary collaborative teamwork and communication. If there are exceptional issues within your team that disrupt the workflow, contact Sprint Innovation Festival project team (sprint@tuni.fi).

Winners for each challenge are decided by a team of judges. The jury is composed of company representative(s), coaches and a third-party representative.

If you find out before the event begins that you will be unable to participate, although you’ve already enrolled, the first thing you should do is to Contact us! This will make things easier for us and the event runs smoother. If you’ll only be absent for a few hours, communicate with your team how you can best work together and divide the workload. Sprint Innovation Festival is an intensive week that requires presence every day. Generally only an illness is accepted as a valid reason for absence.

Of course! Each participant receives 2 credits after the event.

If you are a student of Tampere University, remember to enroll via Cross-Institutional Service (code for Sprint Innovation Festival in 2022: NN00FH283004).

For most students of Tampere University of Applied Sciences, participating in Sprint Innovation Festival is a part of another course and you don’t have to enroll to Sprint via Pakki.
If you are a student of TAMK and participating independently, remember to enroll via Pakki (code for Sprint Innovation Festival in 2022: NN00FH28-3004).