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 »
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 »
Teams iCombine and HeatStock were chosen as the winners of the science-based idea competition Helsinki Challenge and both will receive a prize of 187 500 euros. Team iCombine is working on a decision support systemwhich will enable doctors to easily search for the best possible personalised treatment for each cancer patient. Team HeatStock has developed a new kind of composite material which will allow for the long-term storage and controlled release of heat energy. 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 »
Team POCKit received the Impact Prize acknowledgement of the MEPs at Global Impact Camp in Brussels. Read more »
A portable lab-on-a-chip in your pocket could be a sensation for preventing diseases globally. At the final stage team POCKit is planning a roadmap for global impact. 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 »
Cancer treatment made more effective and personalized with mathematical tools. Team iCombine is looking forward to the final stage of the competition and especially the Global Impact Camp in September. 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »