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 »
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 »
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 »
Team Biodiversity Now, led by professor Markku Ollikainen, won second place in the Helsinki Challenge competition. Now they are working hard on their idea – a habitat bank that protects nature’s biodiversity – to be implemented at the start of next year. They are developing the world’s first operational offset market mechanism, in order to prevent the reduction of the global biodiversity of nature. “Our solution has great societal significance, at the core of which is creating a functional market for nature conservation.” Read more »
The five finalists of Helsinki Challenge have been chosen! Meet Helsinki Sleep Factory, a team who is gamifying sleep and creating a motivating sleep program to help adolescents take control of their sleep themselves. Read more »
A team in the Helsinki Challenge competition is searching for taboos at the University of Helsinki. Does the University of Helsinki have banned teaching subjects? This was what was on Katalin Miklóssy’s mind after the Aleksanteri Institute researcher encountered restrictions in her teaching cooperation with a Belarusian university. Read more »
Helsinki Challenge Impact Camp is getting closer! In the Impact Camp 9th–10th April semifinal teams will meet and collaborate with various stakeholders and experts both from Finland and abroad. Meet Dinelle Lucchesi, the founder of BRAINS. Read more »