Sprint Innovation Festival

Sprint Innovation Festival is an intensive learning event during which you will work as a team with your student colleagues in different fields. Together you will create innovative solutions to real-life challenges. The best solutions will be awarded, so the event also has a competitive edge but not too seriously – we want you to have fun while working! 

Sprint is focused on sustainability in its three dimensions: economic, social, and ecological. Experts and coaches guide you through the innovation process with a variety of methods and tools inspired by The Lean Startup methodology.

On the event’s Final day, every team presents their solution to an Advisory board that gives feedback to the teams. Winners are awarded in the Final Gala during the afternoon.  

You will earn three credits by participating in the first two weeks of the event and the After Sprint. The optional “add-on” for Sprint, worth two additional credits (a total of 5 credits), requires continuing team or independent work on the online platform.

After attending the Sprint Innovation Festival, you can: 

• initiate and carry out an agile, customer-oriented innovation process 
• think creatively and develop your ideas into a solution 
• act as a team player in a multidisciplinary team 
• create a pitch and sell ideas to customers 
• demonstrate you have practical experience in cooperating with experts

By enrolling to Sprint 2026, you must commit to the following schedules (more detailed schedules will be published later):

• 3.3.2026 Sprint kick-off day
• 4.–9.3.2026 Teamwork on an online platform
• 10.–13.3.2026 Live campus days at Tampere University of Applied Sciences

Approved when you have demonstrated to be involved and committed to each Sprint Innovation Festival -day in an active manner, e.g., you can study and work both independently and as a member of the team. You can provide ideas, prototype, and validate the solutions, present your suggestions and give/ receive feedback. You can independently describe the complete innovation process, its phases, and its outcome.  

Failed if you have missed more than one day out of the four without replacing the hours in an agreed manner (e.g., covering the work by independent working hours). Failed if you do not actively participate in activities before Sprint (forming a team), during the ideation phase, and in the after-Sprint activity. 
Fail may occur if you cannot describe what you and your team accomplished during the innovation process, its phases, methods, and outcome.