Innovation Challenges

1. Preliminary tasks
2. Getting to know each other and teaming up
3. Explore the challenge and phenomena around it
4. Understand the problem
5. Ideating
6. Validation of ideas
7. Prototyping
8. Testing the prototype with real users
9. Presenting the final solution
10. Feedback discussions: team, coach and stakeholder

After Innovation Challenges, you:

• can use Design 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  
• evaluate the solutions from the sustainable point of view 
• adapt to multidisciplinary teamwork environment 
• know more about your own strengths and capabilities 
• pitch the solution proposals in English 

During the course 25.10.-12.12.2021 we’ll have sessions together with all teams and coaches on Thursdays at 10:15-13:45.
Teaching will be arranged as multiform teaching. The first session will be held on the 28th of October, 10:15.13:45 at TAMK Backstage.

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, they 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 they do 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.