An exciting opportunity awaits your team's participation. Collaborate with The City of Turku and Sitowise Company to shape a future where student potential merges seamlessly with professional growth.
The KupLab Student Hackathon presents a thought-provoking challenge:
- What inventive strategies can foster employment, injecting vibrancy into the Turku Science Park region?
- How can Turku Science Park companies elevate their attractiveness to students?
- Are you the missing link that connects high-tech companies, academia, and students in the Turku Kupittaa region?
The hackathon venue Science Park stands as a hub of excellence, forging connections between students and industries even before graduation. The City of Turku, with a great interest in supporting higher education students’ competence, has a spearhead project for developing the Turku Science Park as a region. In this hackathon, we are looking for solutions and fresh ideas to implement in our city’s development and future from you higher education students.
Your objective: Formulate a concept or propose solutions with your team that redefine student or graduate employment in the Turku Kupittaa and Science Park region. Whether it's reshaping paid labour or introducing innovative entrepreneurial models, the challenge accommodates diverse viewpoints.
As a participant, you'll delve into the harmony between academia and business, crafting tactics to amplify student employability through proactive steps. We’ll be with your tem all the way with support and sparring from project management professionals.
Are you prepared to pave the way for a future where students excel academically and professionally? The journey commences at KupLab Student Hackathon. Seize this chance to steer change in Turku, a realm where possibilities are limitless.
Save the date and embark on this mission. Together, let's shape Turku brimming with innovation!
To clarify, a hackathon is an intense collaborative event where individuals with various skill sets come together to work on innovative projects, often involving coding, design, and problem-solving. It's a platform to ideate, create, and bring fresh solutions to life within a limited timeframe. Our hackathon will take place in Turku Science Park on 2-3 November 2023.
The concepts or solutions may be targeted at or be a combination of i.e.:
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Processes
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Events
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Communication
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Networks
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Services
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Preconditions etc.
During the competition, participating student teams will learn basic concepts of service design and user-centered design. The hackathon includes a joint workshop to kickstart the teamwork.
Competition language is English.
Prizes
1st prize 1 500€
2nd prize 1 000€
3rd prize 500€
Schedule
Application time: 23 August - 29 October 2023
Competition time: 2 - 3 November 2023
Location
The competition is held in at SparkUp, Tykistökatu 4, Turku. Students are required to be on site in Turku: 2 NOV at 9 to 12 AM and 3 NOV at 3.30 to 7.30 PM. The time between is allocated for teamwork.
Applying
The competition is open for all students studying in Finland in a higher education institute. Open invitations have been sent to schools in Turku; University of Turku, Åbo Akademi, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Novia University of Applied Sciences and Humak University of Applied Sciences.
Students compete in our hackathon in teams. We are looking for multidisciplinary teams, preferably from different higher education institutes. By multidisciplinary we mean team members' different majors, previously attained multidisciplinary skills or studies other than your major. We value multidisciplinary approach and thinking in our hackathon to ensure versatile ideas and teamwork. It's time to ask friends to join your team!
Team's minimum size is two students and maximum is six. We'll select six teams in total to take part in the KupLab Student Hackathon. The multidisciplinary teams with an enthusiastic attitude for teamwork have a greater possibility to be selected in our hackathon. Let us know a bit more about your team in the application form linked below! Select a team leader to fill the application and don't forget to invent a catchy name for your team.
Application form is the only way to enter hackathon. Apply by 29 October 2023 at 23:59.
