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 »
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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 »
"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 »
"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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The world is facing huge problems - we at Helsinki Challenge believe science can solve them. The science based idea competition Helsinki Challenge was organised for the first time in 2015. Last year teams of people from academia and society put their heads together and came up with solutions for the world’s looming challenges. Join us at Helsinki Challenge Impact Evening and meet amazing Challenge teams on the stage! Read more »
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 »
Team POCKit received the Impact Prize acknowledgement of the MEPs at Global Impact Camp in Brussels. 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »