Create a team and register.
Identify the challenge your team wants to solve.
Submit your competition entry for the assessment of the jury.
Wait for the jury's decision of the teams that will proceed to the accelerator program.
Participate to the accelerator program.
Develop your solution with mentors and partners.
Wait for the jury's decision of the finalists.
Test and develop your solution with customers and stakeholders.
Celebrate the winners.
The Global Impact Camp in Brussels was a two-day intensive co-creation with international experts and EU decision-makers. The first day of the camp included two keynotes and a panel discussion focusing on societal impact of research. Read more »
Winning solution of Helsinki Challenge 2015 led the team members Katri Saarikivi and Valtteri Wikström to an even bigger research project. Read more »
How did we get from 110 competition entries to 7 finalists? Who will choose the winner this November? This is how the Helsinki Challenge jury process works. Read more »
”At Helsinki Challenge, I’ve seen a very interesting appetite for doing science in a different way,” describes Gemma Milne, science journalist and co-founder of Science Disrupt. She visited the Helsinki Challenge Experimentation Clinic in the beginning of October. 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 »
In September, the finalist teams of Helsinki Challenge took their solutions to Brussels to meet decision-makers, mentors and possible collaborators at Global Impact Camp. Read what MEP Sirpa Pietikäinen had to say just before the Camp. Read more »
Saving people’s lives and bringing Finland to the forefront of organ biofabrication – with 3D printed mini-kidneys. Team FutuRena won the audience at the Semifinal Pitch Nights and was chosen as the first finalist team. 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 »
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 »
The pre-qualification stage jury chose 20 semi-finalist teams for the Helsinki Challenge accelerator programme. The ideas had to be science-based, solution-oriented, impactful, novel and creative to proceed to the semi-finals. 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 »
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 »
Consultant and last year’s Helsinki Challenge mentor, Ferdi van Heerden, believes that the best results are born through cooperation. One part of van Heerden’s work is to translate "design thinking" into an operational model for innovation teams. Here are three reasons why he thinks researchers should join Helsinki Challenge. Read more »
Tiedeyhteisön yhteisesti tuottama tieto antaa yhteiskunnalle ja elinkeinoelämälle välineitä kehittää toimintaansa. Samalla kansalaiset saavat eväitä uudelleenarvioida omaa maailmakuvaansa. Helsinki Challenge -kilpailun tarkoitus on luoda pikakaistoja, jotka nopeuttavat tutkimustiedon hyödyntämistä. Read more »
Exporter of microbiological expertise to the world, Lab Impact Africa has achieved a lot after Helsinki Challenge. The team has founded a start-up, as well as creating international university collaborations and new jobs for researchers. In addition, the team members put the lessons learned at Challenge to use in their own everyday life. Recently, Lyra held a “mini-Challenge” course for her university students, where the students got to solve present-day urban challenges using biotechnology. The purpose of the course was to find ideas for commercializing biotechnology. Read more »
Universities have always been a fountain of new knowledge and fresh thinking. Helsinki Challenge shines a strong spotlight on achievements from the University of Helsinki. It’s time to make more noise about our best-kept secrets, says Rector Jukka Kola. Read more »