Multidisciplinary Innovation Project (10 ECTS)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student
• can responsibly develop innovative practical and concrete solutions, practices, products or services with multidisciplinary partners to meet the diverse future needs and current challenges in the metropolitan area
• is able to define the concept of innovation and take development methods into use
• is able to apply project and network-based work, creativity and competence in regional, national or international development work
• uses their personal skills and abilities to work in multidisciplinary collaboration and working environment
• creates a culture of cooperation and negotiation for successful teamwork
• uses their skills in problem solving, collaboration, technical and communication skills to support the collaborative development processes and joint decision making of the team.

Content

• The concept of innovation, development work management and building a development team
• Collaborative project and innovation work and assessment: brainstorming, future-oriented conceptualisation and design, customer and user understanding, contracts and copyrights, communicating, publishing, productisation, marketing and implementation planning
• Multidisciplinary teamwork, stakeholder activities and networking
• Innovation development tools and methods

Teaching methods

Interactive lectures 25.8-9.10.2025

Pre-assignment
Group work, work shops
Guided assignment
Project work

The student confirms his / her place in the course implementation by being present in the course orientation. If a student is unable to participate in the orientation due to illness, he / she confirms his / her place with the course implementation by sending a confirmation message to teacher in charge.

Some of the project challenges are completely controlled online (Teams/Zoom), and to participate in them, the student is required to use the camera.

Location and time

25.8-9.10.2025.

Learning materials and recommended literature

1. Ulla Vehkaperä, Kaarina Pirilä ja Marianne Roivas ( toim.) 2013. Innostu ja Innovoi. Käsikirja innovaatiopintoihin. Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu julkaisusarja. Saatavilla sähköisesti http://www.metropolia.fi/fileadmin/user_upload/Julkaisutoiminta/Julkaisusarjat/OIVA/Innostu_ja_innovoi.pdf
2. Oivallus loppuraportti: http://ek.fi/wp-content/uploads/Oivallus_loppuraportti.pdf
3. MINNO työkalupakki

Alternative completion methods of implementation

N/A

Internship and working life connections

Project challenges are work-life related.

Exam dates and retake possibilities

-

International connections

-

Student workload

1op = 27 hours of student work
10 op = 270 hours of student work

Content scheduling

Interactive and intensive study course, duration 7 weeks.
The orientational reflection task is returned to the project-specific OMA workspace (the workspace indicated by the instructor).

Registration for projects will be informed in a separate announcement.

Orientation25.8.2025 am.10 - 11.30 (online)
Project work on Mondays-Thursdays.
Weekly meetings with your project lecturer.
Meeting of the customer on first week. Other meetings with partners will be agreed during project.

8.10.2025 MinnoFest. Project presentation festival. Participation mandatory.
Feedback with supervisor
Other days project work in your own project group.

Further information for students

INTENSIVE STUDY COURSE: Attendance is required throughout the course
Registration for project is done with an e-form. Failure to register for the project may prevent access to the course.
Available projects will be published in OMA later.
Students will be informed of their placement in project groups before the first project meeting.
First project meeting: The exact place and time are indicated in the project blank form
Joint closing ceremony of the project MinnoFest.
The time of the feedback / evaluation discussion will be agreed with the supervisor.
A good grade of an innovation project may enable the project to be continued as a thesis in a project on the same topic according to a separate agreement.

MATERIALS prepared by the teacher are works in accordance with the Copyright Act (404/61) for which the teacher has copyright. Assignments AND MATERIALS may not be used except in their own studies. Their public distribution is only allowed with the permission of the teacher.

Some of the work in the course is distance learning. See here for more details on the processing of personal data related to the implementation of distance learning and the systems, software, IT applications and electronic tools used in the processing of personal data. Link to Metropolia's extensive student and study data register privacy statement https://www.metropolia.fi/fi/metropoliasta/tietosuoja-ja-gdpr/tietosuojaselosteet/metropolian-opiskelija-ja-opintotietorekisteri

RPL: The application must be made and approved before registering for the course.

Any additional questions to the MINNO coordinator in your school.
(e-mail name@metropolia.fi)
School of Health care; Merja Lahdenperä
School of rehabilitation and examination: Jenny West, Ulla Marjosola
School of wellbeing: Mona Laine

Assessment methods and criteria

Continuous evaluation
Active participation for intensive course
Theory + projectwork = innovationproject 10 op
Project will be evaluated numeric.

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student
• can develop innovative practical and concrete solutions, practices, products or services with multidisciplinary partners to meet the diverse future needs and current challenges in the metropolitan area
• recognises the concept of innovation, development and productisation processes and methods
• recognises their creativity and competence in project and network-based work in regional, national or international development work
• recognises their role in multidisciplinary collaboration and working environment
• promotes a culture of cooperation and negotiation and works constructively as part of a team
• uses their skills in problem solving, collaboration, technical and communication skills to support the collaborative development processes and joint decision making of the team.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The student
• can develop innovative practical and concrete solutions, practices, products or services with multidisciplinary partners to meet the diverse future needs and current challenges in the metropolitan area
• can define the concept of innovation, development and productisation processes and methods that are needed in developing an implementable outcome
• applies their creativity and competence in project and network-based work in regional, national or international development work
• takes an active role in multidisciplinary collaboration
• helps to create a culture of cooperation and negotiation for successful teamwork
• can apply in many ways their skills in problem solving, collaboration, technical and communication skills to support the collaborative development processes and joint decision making of the team.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student
• can develop innovative practical and concrete solutions, practices, products or services with multidisciplinary partners to meet the diverse future needs and current challenges in the metropolitan area
• is able to define and apply the concept of innovation, development and productisation processes and is able to facilitate the development work with versatile range of methods to accomplish an implementable outcome
• is able to develop successful project- and network-based teamwork and their own creativity and competence in project and network-based work in regional, national or international development work
• takes an active role and analytically assesses their competence and learning in multidisciplinary collaboration
• develops actively a culture of cooperation and negotiation and helps the team to succeed
• can apply in many ways and efficiently develop their skills in problem solving, collaboration, technical and communication skills to support the collaborative development processes and joint decision making of the team.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The student
• can develop innovative practical and concrete solutions, practices, products or services with multidisciplinary partners to meet the diverse future needs and current challenges in the metropolitan area
• recognises the concept of innovation, development and productisation processes and methods
• recognises their creativity and competence in project and network-based work in regional, national or international development work
• recognises their role in multidisciplinary collaboration and working environment
• promotes a culture of cooperation and negotiation and works constructively as part of a team
• uses their skills in problem solving, collaboration, technical and communication skills to support the collaborative development processes and joint decision making of the team.