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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 »

Setting the course for global impact

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 »

Meet the finalists: HeatStock

A novel material could stock up heat, forward the energy efficiency of renewables and save the planet. Next team HeatStock wants to scale up their groundbreaking material. Read more »

Meet the grand jury

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 »

Teija Lahti-Nuuttila: How do great ideas get funded?

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 »

Meet our Impact Camp speakers and mentors

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 »

Meet the jury: Anneli Pauli

"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 »

More than 100 teams solving planet-sized challenges

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 »

375,000 euros for science-based solutions that impact society

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 »

Future cities require sustainable mindsets

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 »

The Earth can only take so much

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 »

Humanity needs new solutions

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 »

Researcher, tell us a story!

The former U.S. Ambassador to Finland Bruce Oreck sees that one of the biggest challenges facing science is getting it heard through the world’s noise. Our world is so full of information that even the largest marketing budgets don’t always lead to the emergence of the best ideas. Oreck encourages the semifinalist teams of Helsinki Challenge to communicate their competition ideas with utmost fervor: to tell a story. Read more »

Take a look at PitchNight team presentations

During the Helsinki Challenge PitchNight events on January 28th and 29th each team had 5-7 minutes to present their solution to promote the world’s well-being. Find team videos here. Read more »