Global Impact Camp speakers and mentors
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 »
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.
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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 »
"Helsinki Challenge is an excellent way to implement and concretize the UN’s Agenda 2030 goals. Research teams have to be able to collaborate across the different scientific disciplines, and interact with key stakeholders. It is necessary to look at the whole world beyond our little nest, because the problems are truly global. But at the same time you have to be able to divide vast challenges into smaller parts which can be solved." 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 »
As urbanisation increases there are more and more problems to solve ranging from governance to security. With science we can reduce inequalities and create sustainable communities. Read more »
Remember to register your team by October 31st. Through the team registration you will provide the preliminary information about your team and the challenge your team want to solve. And do not forget to submit your competition entry by November 15th. You will find the competition entry form from the Helsinki Challenge web page. Read more »
Every year the planet carries more and more people. We need new solutions and science can provide us with them. People in change is one of the three main themes of this year’s science based idea competition Helsinki Challenge. 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 »
After the Helsinki Challenge competition, things are going just as Helsinki Sleep Factory had planned. Research work and developing the sleep application are progressing side by side, a nice amount of funding has been received and all essential partnerships are in place. Read more »
Large amounts of medicines end up in nature through sewage. The drug residues cause interferences to the ecosystem, such as the deaths and mutations of fish. The team aims to influence legislation by informing decision makers. Member of the European Parliament Sirpa Pietikäinen became interested in Generation Green’s work, and has invited the team to Brussels as part of a larger delegation, which has tightening the environmental regulations of the pharmaceutical industry as its goal. At present, the team is preparing a draft for the meeting. Read more »
The €375,000 prize for the science-based idea competition Helsinki Challenge was divided between two teams. The winner was NEMO – Natural Emotionality in Digital Interaction, which received €250,000, while the runner-up, Biodiversity Now, received €125,000. The prize money is intended for realising the team’s idea. Read more »
Helsinki Challenge is getting more and more exciting as soon it is time to choose the finalists. Few members of the jury have been already introduced and more will follow. Our third jury member is Sally Mapstone, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education in the University of Oxford. Read more »
As the second half of Helsinki Challenge starts this upcoming autumn, we’re introducing to you the members of the final jury one by one. Our second jury member is Pasi Sahlberg, currently a visiting Professor of Practice at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, MA, USA. Read more »
Helsinki Challenge team Lab Impact Africa has been busy with finding partners and building bridges. Their pilot project partner in Burkina Faso visited Finland recently, and had high hopes for the team. 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 »