Demola International Project Studies (8 cr)

Objective

In Demola projects, you will learn crucial skills that are relevant in working life, including interdisciplinary communication and project management skills. Participants will also get familiar with strategic foresight tools and design thinking methodologies.

After the course, the student can participate in a professional role in a development team that creates an innovation or a prototype of a product or service using agile development practices, design and research methods.

Students learn
- to identify meaningful information in the middle of the noise
- to think and act like a future designer

Students gain
- an interdisciplinary & international teamwork experience
- ownership of project execution

The student also understands through experience the challenges and benefits of multidisciplinary teams and begins to develop required team working skills as the course comprises an assignment carried out by a group of students with different backgrounds and skill sets.

The student learns how to use various innovation methods and understands how to develop an idea or concept further.

By writing a project report the student will learn to summarize, rationalize and explain the findings and ideas developed during the project.
Oral presentation skills will also be learned as the students present and explain their findings in a project presentation.

Content

For each project topic, we will select and build interdisciplinary and international student teams. The project platform enables cumulative knowledge building and teams will not start from an empty table but will utilize the data and insights the previous teams have created and Demola community already has. Every team has its own co-creation expert co-creating the results together with you. Projects last around 8 weeks and the results are brought back to the community for interpretations and discussions.

Join the Demola project if
- you have curiosity to understand and find out?
- you have optimism, believing that different possibilities exist but might not yet have been discovered?
- you have perseverance, not giving up when facing a dead end and forced to return to the drawing table.
- you have empathy, the ability to set aside your own assumptions and genuinely engage with others.

Teaching methods

Opintojakson suorituksesta antaa tietoja projektipäällikkö Pekka Silven, pekka.silven@kamk.fi.
Tarjolla olevat projektit ja ilmoittautuminen.
https://portal.demola.net/

Evaluation scale

0 - 5

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

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Assessment criteria, good (3)

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Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

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Assessment criteria, approved/failed

At the end of the process, your team will come up with a final report. The final report is a document that can involve concepts and prototypes of your creations.
Participation in group work and workshops
Completion of all assignments
The outcome of the project (project portfolio and report).

Further information

Important to notice!
In order to be able to participate in the course, you need to apply and be accepted to a Demola team
- https://www.demola.net/students
- https://portal.demola.net/

Search for upcoming projects and timelines https://portal.demola.net/?page=1&sort=recent

Members of the team own the rights to the results they create during these projects. While these results are valuable content to your portfolio, some might also consider entrepreneurial activities later on, and the ownership of the results might come in handy at that point.

Demola works with a variety of companies and organizations that operate in different fields from humanitarian work to quantum physics. Students from all backgrounds can find a match from Demola's innovation challenge selection.

Objective

In Demola projects, you will learn crucial skills that are relevant in working life, including interdisciplinary communication and project management skills. Participants will also get familiar with strategic foresight tools and design thinking methodologies.

After the course, the student can participate in a professional role in a development team that creates an innovation or a prototype of a product or service using agile development practices, design and research methods.

Students learn
- to identify meaningful information in the middle of the noise
- to think and act like a future designer

Students gain
- an interdisciplinary & international teamwork experience
- ownership of project execution

The student also understands through experience the challenges and benefits of multidisciplinary teams and begins to develop required team working skills as the course comprises an assignment carried out by a group of students with different backgrounds and skill sets.

The student learns how to use various innovation methods and understands how to develop an idea or concept further.

By writing a project report the student will learn to summarize, rationalize and explain the findings and ideas developed during the project.
Oral presentation skills will also be learned as the students present and explain their findings in a project presentation.

Execution methods

Every project begins with a kick-off meeting, where you will meet your team members and your co-creation expert for the first time. The 8-week process is divided into two different phases, present and future. You will begin in the present phase by conducting design research and understanding the current status of the project phenomenon. The latter part of the process focuses on the future aspects of the project phenomenon and you will design future states to describe alternative futures and the change forces behind them.

Accomplishment methods

Online participation in a Demola project, building a prototype/demo with a multidisciplinary co-creation team, and facilitated events for the team (e.g. agile development, concept development, presentation, service design, productization).

Content

For each project topic, we will select and build interdisciplinary and international student teams. The project platform enables cumulative knowledge building and teams will not start from an empty table but will utilize the data and insights the previous teams have created and Demola community already has. Every team has its own co-creation expert co-creating the results together with you. Projects last around 8 weeks and the results are brought back to the community for interpretations and discussions.

Join the Demola project if
- you have curiosity to understand and find out?
- you have optimism, believing that different possibilities exist but might not yet have been discovered?
- you have perseverance, not giving up when facing a dead end and forced to return to the drawing table.
- you have empathy, the ability to set aside your own assumptions and genuinely engage with others.