The search for digital emotions continues: Helsinki Challenge 2015 winner NEMO
Winning solution of Helsinki Challenge 2015 led the team members Katri Saarikivi and Valtteri Wikström to an even bigger research project. Read more »
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Winning solution of Helsinki Challenge 2015 led the team members Katri Saarikivi and Valtteri Wikström to an even bigger research project. Read more »
Who did the finalists meet in September in Brussels? The Global Impact Camp offered Helsinki Challenge teams an opportunity to impress and co-create with high-level international experts. Read more »
Seven teams have been selected for the final stage of the science competition intended to develop new solutions for the challenges of our changing world. The teams’ ideas would boost cancer treatment, revolutionise the use of heat energy and protect the mental health of new parents. Read more »
Making school more meaningful: learning global competencies with new pedagogical tools. Team Dlearn.Helsinki says that the competition has really pushed them to step outside their own box. Read more »
Supporting the well-being of children and families by giving the parents a mental health toolkit. Team Parental Box is entering the final stage with enthusiasm. Read more »
Meet our Grand Jury! The jury’s task is to select the best teams and ideas from among the Helsinki Challenge semifinalist teams that will advance to the final of the accelerator program in 2017. Read more »
"We can change the world through science when we have people who play with it and who intentionally try to find solutions to global problems." Paul Miller is a partner at Bethnal Green Ventures, a company that invests in ambitious startups using technology to change the world. He gave a keynote speech at the Helsinki Challenge Impact Camp on how researchers can increase the impact of their work. Read more »
Teija Lahti-Nuuttila is the Executive Director at the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, Tekes. She gave a keynote speech at Helsinki Challenge Impact Camp on funding research and innovations. Read more »
"Your solution will be different after these two days." This is how the 20 semifinalist teams were welcomed to Helsinki Challenge Impact Camp. The 20 semifinalists of Helsinki Challenge 2017 gathered to experience this intense two-days of co-creation and co-development last week. The aim was to refine the problem to be solved, and understand, and find ways to verify and measure, the potential impact of the solution. Read more »
During the next stage of the accelerator programme, our 20 amazing Helsinki Challenge teams will take part in a co-creation and brainstorming boot camp in Långvik, Kirkkonummi. Over the course of just two days and with the help of innovation investors, politicians, communications professionals and design thinkers, teams will define the societal impact of their solutions. Read more »
Helsinki Challenge teams are heading for the next stage! “Impact” is the driving force of the Helsinki Challenge. At the Helsinki Challenge Impact Camp, 6-7 April, 2017, teams will be given a tricky question to answer: What is the intended impact of the solutions they come up with? Read more »
Helsinki Challenge semifinalists 2017 are here! Twenty science teams will tackle the UN’s sustainable development goals and create solutions for, among other things, the loneliness of young urban people, aging, malaria and treating cancer. Read more »
Provide your expertise, experience and ideas and help teams solve the world’s biggest challenges! You will have an unique opportunity to be a part of projects with potentially immense impact together with top science teams. This also a good chance to find new ways to co-operate with the academia and the rest of the Helsinki Challenge community. Read more »
"Helsinki Challenge encourages researchers to develop a personal interest in the impact of their work and how their own research findings could change the world." Read more »
"We all need to put our different gifts and know-how into good use. We won’t achieve anything unless we try new things and challenge the way things have been done this far." Read more »
The jury will select a maximum of 20 teams for the accelerator programme that will take place during 2017, where the teams’ ideas will be developed in cooperation with domestic and international mentors. The jury will evaluate competition entries based on the following criteria: how science-based and solution-oriented they are, and their impact, novelty and creativity. Read more »
WWF Finland’s Secretary General, Liisa Rohweder, was on the jury of the first Helsinki Challenge. Rohweder, who has been influential in the fields of academic research and business, has specialized in sustainable development in her career. Now, she provides researchers with three reasons to participate in the competition. Read more »
Microbiologist Leena Räsänen and ecologist Edina Rudner from the Bionautit Co-operative took part in last year’s Helsinki Challenge with their Lab Impact Africa team. They wanted to set up a tracking system in Africa for antibiotic resistant microbes. The competition provided the research with lot of new things to think about. Read more »
Helsinki Challenge is a science-based idea competition and accelerator programme, where solutions for the great challenges of the world and future well-being are solved through collaboration between experts of the scientific community and society. The competition prize is 375,000 euros and it is meant for the implementation of the solution. Read more »
Our planet is in distress. Unsustainable consumption and climate change bring along a myriad of universal problems from poverty to unemployment. Now at the latest these problems need solutions. The science based idea competition Helsinki Challenge is looking for solutions to grand challenges and future well-being related on three themes: sustainable planet, people in change and urban future. Read more »