Innovation ProjectLaajuus (10 ECTS)

Objective

Students recognise their expert knowledge and use it in a multidisciplinary cooperative development project. They create a collaborative negotiation culture together with other students, teachers, partners and clients. Students know how to use their cooperation and communication skills in communal development processes and decision-making.

Students are familiar with the basics of project management and networking and are able to apply their competence to regional, national or international development work. They develop practical, creative and innovative solutions, modes of operation or services with other actors to meet the diverse needs of the residents of the metropolitan area. Community development is shared with all the actors involved.

Content

The competence areas of development within communities: development processes, coordinating and managing development and renewing development models
The management of project and innovation work: planning, implementation, communication, publication, commodification and marketing
Interaction skills and interest group activities
Working with networks

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

- Find and use working in a team methods and especially generate new solutions to the design challenges that the projects are about
- Use lean development methods to different fields (e.g., mobile phone application development, game development etc.)

Assessment criteria, good (3)

- Developed methods for innovating, working in a team and especially generate new solutions to the design challenges that the projects are about in multidisciplinary teams
- prevent and solve conflict situations with appropriate methods
- Use and integrate lean development methods to different fields (e.g., mobile phone application development, game development etc.)

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

- Integrate lean development methods to different fields (e.g., mobile phone application development, game development etc.) taking into account the user centered design approaches
- Take lead in the multidisciplinary and cultural teams
- Use and adapt innovation methods in the projects

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

- Find and use working in a team methods and especially generate new solutions to the design challenges that the projects are about
- Use lean development methods to different fields (e.g., mobile phone application development, game development etc.)