Innovation Project 10 ECTS  1.2. - 17.3.2017

Innovation project studies 10 ECTS (2 orientation and theory + 8 project)

 

What is a multidisciplinary Innovation Project ? 

The aim of the innovation project is to create value from culture and wellbeing  in our surrounding society in new ways and manners. The student knows how to apply project and networking skills. Student can apply his/ her professional skills and can bring those skills to multidiciplinary work. Student can create negotiation culture and he/she can use problem solving, co-operation and communication skills in a development project and decision making.

After the project you can develop new practical, creative and innovative solutions and services that meet the need of the surrounding society. Innovation project aims at creating new value in the work life.

Every undergraduate Metropolia University of Appliesd Sciences student takes part in a 10 credit point innovation project.

  • The subject matters arise from labour market needs
  • Students, lecturers and tutors from various fields of study cooperate with businesses to create new solutions
  • The outcome will not be determined in advance: during the process new solutions will be found for the benefit of businesses and customers
  • Project team work independently most of the time, reporting to tutors and the customers 

Background 

  • When Metropolia University of applied Sciences was established in 2007, it was decided that each student’s study program would include innovation project studies worth 10 credits.
  • Innovation projects play a significant part in Metropolia’s curriculum and have a central role in the cooperation between students and employers.
  • Up to 1000 innovation projects are carried out every year.
  • This way Metropolia is able to offer an important input in developing the working life of the surrounding areas as well as provide better possibilites for integrating students into working life.
  • Another aim of the innovation projects is to support Metropolia’s RDI strategy, and student resources can be directed at implementing the RDI strategy

Learning outcomes of the course unit

 

On completion of the course the student can

  • Develop practical, creative and innovative solutions, practices and services with multidisciplinary partners to meet the diverse needs in the Helsinki Metropolitan area.
  • The student participates in project or network-based work and applies his or her expertise in regional, national or international development work.
  • Use his or her personal skills and abilities to work and collaborate in multidisciplinary teams.
  • Create a culture of cooperation and negotiation with the team members and other actors.
  • Use his or her skills in problem solving, collaboration and communication to support the social development and joint decision making of the team.

Course contents

  •  Project and innovation work: brainstorming, planning, implementing, assessing, communicating, publishing, product development and marketing.
  •  Cooperative skills, interest group activities and networking.  
  •  Innovative work methods.
  •  Areas of communal development skills: development processes, coordinating and managing development, reforming the development concepts.  

 
Assessment criteria

Assessment 1-5
  
Satisfactory 1-2
The student knows principles of project and network-based work. The student recognizes his/her own project- and network-based work competences. The student uses co-operation and communication skills in cooperative development process´and decision making. The student can develop together with other actors solutions and modes of operation to meet the multi-faceted needs of the residents of the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Good 3-4

The student uses the principles of project and network-based work in regional, national or international development oriented work.  The student uses his or her co-operation and communication skills well in cooperative development processes and decision making. The student helps to set-up a cooperative negotiation culture with other actors in the field. The student uses his/her personal skills and abilities to contribute to the work of a multidisciplinary team. The student develops together with the other actors practical, creative and innovative solutions, modes of operation or services to meet the multi-faceted needs of the residents of the Helsinki metropolitan area.

Excellent 5
The student's ability to use principles of project and network-based work in regional, national or international development oriented work is on a high level. The student is able to analyse and develop his/her co-operation and communication skills in cooperative development processes and decision making. The student understands cooperative negotiation culture and helps to build it with the other actors. The student is able to analyse and develop his/her professional competence and put it in the service of a multidisciplinary team. The student develops together with the other actors practical, creative and innovative solutions, modes of operation or services to meet the multi-faceted needs of the residents of the Helsinki metropolitan area.

The course is intensive and presence is required throughout the whole course (theory classes and project work).  Assessment is focused on the work carried out during the course, the gained knowledge upon the completion of the course, meeting the course goals and creating innovative solutions.

 

Teachers:

 

  • Lauri Narinen, Social services
  • Marja Amgwerd and Leena Juntunen, Fashion and clothing
  • Marja Amgwerd and Marja-Liisa Kauppinen , Fashion and clothing
  • Mai Salmenkangas, Social services
  • Janett Halonen, Occupational therapy

email: name.lastname@metropolia.fi

 

Orientation and Theory 2 ECTS:

Wednesday  1.2.2017 at 10.00 - 15.00 Orientation and innovation theory, teacher Lauri Narinen,  place Bulevardi 31, classroom P429.

Wednesday 1.2.2017 at 13 - 13.30 Project presentation in English, Bulevardi 31, Engel-hall

Companies and other working life partners comes to give you challenges. First two projects are in English, rest are in Finnish. You will meet all the Finnish students at the same place.

Projects presentation in English:

  1. at 13.10 100 Years of Finnishness, Virpi Martikainen, Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council Presentation

    Project teachers: Marja Amgwerd and Marja-Liisa Kauppinen 

  2.  at 13.20 Game on! How to promote the participation of adults through games and playfulness? Tytti Hytti and Pekka Kähkönen, Socca. Presentation

    Project teachers: Mai Salmenkangas and Janett Halonen 

  3. After this you will continue to work in P429 with Lauri Narinen until 15:00.

 

ENNROLLING IN PROJECTS

After this session, you should start enrolling to projects. Choose the project which interests you most and fill the enrollment form.

E-forms open 1.2. at 15.30 PM and ends 5.2.2017 at 23.59 PM. You will get an invitation to the project by email on Wednesday 8th of February.

Link to e-form enrolling: Enrollment form

Please notice: you have to fill three projects in the enrollment form. For exchange students there are only two projects in English, but the enrollment form wants you to choose three projects.. You can choose two times the same project.


Theory classes 2 ECTS Lauri Narinen

 

Wednesday 1/2 at 10 – 15, Bulevardi 31, class 429

Friday 3/2 at 9 - 11.30, Vanha viertotie 23, class 248

Monday 13/2 at 9 - 12, Sofianlehdonkatu 5 B, class 107

Monday 27/2 at 9 - 15, Sofianlehdonkatu 5 B, class 107

Monday 6/3 at 10:15 – 14, Vanha viertotie 23, class 247


 

Project Phase 8 ECTS = 216 hours of work 

Starts on Thursday 9th of February. You will get an invitation to the project by email on Wednesday 8th of February.

The students will work in small project groups. Project groups will meet the coaches/project teachers every Thursday and also on Friday 10.2. The student group will work together Tuesday-Friday every week.

Draft plan for meetings with the projects teachers, depending on teacher and the project:

  • 9.2.  Project groups start with their named teachers. Ideaphase.
  • 10.2. Ideaphase
  • 16.2. Project plan and contract. Development work.
  • 23.2. Development work. How to concretize an invention?
  • 2.3. Prototype testing
  • 9.3. Development work.
  • 13.3. Development work. How to take the invention to the marketplace or part of the society together with the customer?
  • 16.3. Final seminar (pitching, poster presentation)
  • 17.3. Feedback and assessment, end of the course

Minnofest (final seminar) 16.3.2017

more information will come here

 

Deliverables

Tasks in Project:

  1. Poster and video (video is voluntary) Poster template.  VideVideo instructions ao instructions and a Minno-logo for the video.
    -Turn in your poster to your project teacher and to Juha Järvinen (juha.jarvinen@metropolia.fi) on 14 th of March. Juha will make sure that posters are seen in Minnofest screens.
    -Turn in you video (voluntary) to You Tube on 14th of March
  2. Pitch your innovation in Minnofest / Final Seminar 16.3. and arrange a fair stand to present your outcomes.
  3. Project plan
  4. Agreement with the partner organization (use this template).
  5. Your innovation for worklife partner. A report in a format which is defined together with the supervising teacher describing your innovation to working life partner.  The report may  include pictures, the description of your innovation (product, service, a new process, a new way of doing things…), description of the process, implementation of  the innovation, material for marketing and so on. You may choose to write your project final report presentation for example in this powerpoint template.
  6. Learning diary and self assessment (template)

 Assessment criteria for teacher, peer of selfassessment (Table)

 

Minnofest Thursday 16 th of March at 9:00 - 12:00

Instructions - How to prepare for Minnofest 2017

MINNOfest 2017 will be held at Liikuntamylly, Myllypuro (street address Jauhokuja 3, 00920 Helsinki) on Thursday 16th of March from 9 AM to 12 PM.

MINNO project groups will be presented at the fair which is open to all public. All of the project teams will present their innovation by pitching and they also have their own stand on site.  The audience will be MINNO-project clients, Metropolians, public audience and companys from the surrounding areas. The event is open for all.

The keynote speech will start the MINNOfest at 9:00. After that the project groups will pitch about their outcomes and present their innovations in a stand.

During the MINNOfest the E-posters and videos will be shown in the Liikuntamylly.

The point of MINNOfest event is to present your own project work and results as well as get familiar with other team’s solutions.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

MINNOfest is produced by Innovation Project coordinators, project teachers and all the project teams collaboratively.

 

Contact for MINNOfest production is: Hannele Hokkanen (hannele.hokkanen(at)metropolia.fi), Panu Karhinen (panu.karhinen(at)metropolia.fi),Tuuli Sinervo (tuuli.sinervo(at)metropolia.fi) and Communications Specialist Milla Hakkarainen (milla.hakkarainen(at)metropolia.fi).

 

Schedule for pitching

Liikuntamylly space planning, tables

Project Team

  1. Remembers to turn in their e-poster and/or video no later than 14th of March: the poster (pdf-form) to Juha Järvinen juha.jarvinen@metropolia.fi, video to You Tube
  2. arrives at location of MINNOfest at 07:00 AM to arrange their fair stand
  3. the stand is a shared table with limited space, if needed, a chair.
  4. on the table there’s room for a laptop for e-presentation of the project
  5. you may use tape to hang something on the table but not on the walls
  6. the posters are e-posters, but if you want you may print your poster (size A3) and tape it on the side of your table.
  7. make sure to keep your laptop fully charged (if necessary, there is possibillity to charge your laptop)
  8. Want to be pro? Agree on a Dress Code for you team!
  9. Prepare to present your Innovation by pitching and at the stand. The pitch may last max 4 minutes.
  10. Never leave the stand alone. Agree on the pauses / lunch / coffee breaks for your team.
  11. The MINNOfest 2017 ends at 12:00 - after that all the students are responsible for taking down their own stand

Project Manager

  1. Makes sure that he/she attends (or another member of the team) to a visit to Liikuntamylly on Tuesday 7th of March at 9:00. All the project managers and innovation project coordinators are invited to visit Liikuntamylly to see the space of the fair.
  2. Makes sure that he/she attends (or another member of the team) a Production Meeting at Bulevardi 31, class P317 on Tuesday 14th of March from 9:00 to 12:00.
  3. Operates as or directs to another member of the team the Client Contact Person, who:
    • invites the Project Client to MINNOfest
    • agrees a meeting with the client
    • meets client at the Liikuntamylly and introduces the Project's stand

Building the MINNOfest 2017

  1. invite your Client to attend not later than 2 weeks prior to the event
  2. remember to turn your own e-posters and videos as instructed - posters to Juha Järvinen juha.jarvinen(at)metropolia.fi - videos directly to You Tube on 14th of March
  3. project managers: visit Liikuntamylly on Tuesday 7th of March at 9:00
  4. ptoject managers: attend the Production Meeting on Tue 14th of March from 9 to 12 at Bulevardi 31, P317
  5. prepare the presentations for your stand / laptop
  6. arrange logistics if your outcome so requires
  7. take care of your groups pitching skills - how to present your project verbally
  8. decide on the dress code for your team
  9. help to create a good feeling
  10. remember to bring your own water bottles etc
  11. charge your laptop batteries
  12. prepare to carry stuff on Thu morning from 07:00 AM
  13. listen to the Key Notes / pitching and get familiar with other team’s solutions
  14. respect other Teams, members of Staff and Audience
  15. serve the audience in a best possible way
  16. one must stay at the stand - no lunching as a whole group
  17. prepare to be seen on a video filmed on site - if you wish not to be seen on public vid, please let the video person know about it if you spot them at MINNOfest.
  18. take down your own stand after 12:00 PM

 

 

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