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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
After the course the student can:
Adapt project and social networking basics and skills in local and national collaboration projects
Work in multidisciplinary teams and evaluate his/her skills and abilities
Know the communication and team work challenges and use the basic conflict presentation and solving methods
Course contents
Innovation?
Multidiciplinary work
Project management
Find, use and developed methods for innovating, working in a team and especially generate new solutions to the  challenges that the projects are about -
Use and integrate lean development methods to different fields (e.g., mobile phone application development, game development etc.) taking into account the user centered design approaches.
 
Assessment criteria
  
  
Assessment table for teacher, peer or self assessment
  
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
The student uses principles of project and network-based work in regional, national or international development oriented work. The student can use co-operation and communication skills in cooperative development process and decision making. The student generates cooperative negotiation culture with other actors in the field.
Excellent 4-5
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 analyze and develop his/her co-operation and communication skills in cooperative development process and decision making. The student understands cooperative negotiation culture and generates it with other actors in the field. The student is able to analyze and develop his/her professional competence and puts it in service of multi-professional work. The student develops together with other actors practical, creative and innovative solution, modes of operation or services to meet the multi-faceted needs of the residents of the Helsinki metropolitan area.
 
Learning outcomes of the course unit
After the course the student can:
- Adapt project- and social networking basics and skills in local and national collaboration projects
- Work in multidisciplinary teams and evaluate his/her skills and abilities
- Know the communication and team work challenges and use the basic conflict presentation and solving methods
 

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 srvices
  • Janett Halonen, Occupational therapy

email: name.lastname@metropolia.fi

 

Orientation and Theory 2 ECTS:

Wednesday  1.2.2017 at 10.00 - 12.00 Orientation and innovation theory, teacher Lauri Narinen,  place Bulevardi 31, classroom P116.

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

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 there are project presentation in Finnish. If you are interested also projects in Finnish, please stay the hole afternoon 13 - 15.30 so you can here all the presentation.


ENNROLLING IN PROJECTS

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

Link to e-form enrolling:

English projects 2 projects : xx

If you want to participate a project in Finnish, please enroll by using this form: xx

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.


Theory classes 2 ECTS Lauri Narinen

Friday 3.2. at 9 - 11.30, place Vanha viertotie 23, classroom 248
Monday 13.2. at 9 - 12, place Sofianlehdonkatu 5 B, classroom 107
Monday 20.2. at 9 - 15, place Sofianlehdonkatu 5 B, classroom 107
Monday 27.2. at 9 - 15, place Sofianlehdonkatu 5 B, classroom 107
Monday 13.3. at 9 - 15, place Sofianlehdonkatu 5 B, classroom 107

 
 

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

Final seminar 16.3.2017

more information will come here

 
Deliverables
 
Tasks in Project:
  1. Meeting memos in your groups platform shared with your teacher. Put where your teacher says you should put.
  2. Project plan (find a template!). Put where your teacher says you should put.
  3. Agreement (use this template). Print 3, sign.
  4. Your innovation for worklife partener. Package it! All pictures, presentations, brochures, reports and everything your worklife partner might need!
    1. Your innovation and reasoning
    2. Parts of the package
    3. target Target group
    4. marketingMarketing, communications materials 
    5. Other
      This is a report (you may choose the form of the report) in which you describe your innovation to the 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 the innovation and so on.
  5. Project final report presentation (powerpoint template).
  6. Learning diary and self assessment (template)
  7. Poster and/or a video 

  

Assessment criteria for teacher, peer of selfassessment (Table)