INGENIUM Junior Winter School 2025: From Idea to Disruption - Transforming Visions into Innovations (3 cr)

Objective

- Recognise challenges and opportunities in working life and the business environment.
- Generate new solutions.
- Utilise information obtained from different sources and stakeholders.
- Employ various development methods.
- Explore full potential in creativity and problem-solving skills

Course material

Study material will be provided in the DISCORD community platform.

Study forms and methods

This course is mainly implemented as online teaching that is not time-bounded. The course includes voluntary guidance meetings online, where students can work together with the course facilitator and mentors from each INGENIUM partner country. The schedule of guidance meetings can be found in the course schedule. Guidance meetings are organized on the ZOOM platform.

In the course, studying takes place in the DISCORD environment. Studying is structured with independent learning tasks. The evaluated tasks of the course are done independently. Assignments must be returned within the given schedule.

RDI and work-related cooperation

You can apply the learning assignments of the course to working life, your own field of study, or the development of your own product or company in the future.

Timing of exams and assignments

The learning tasks of the course support the learning objectives and content of the course. The evaluation of the course is based on learning assignments, which are evaluated according to evaluation criteria. Learning assignments must be returned in accordance with the given instructions. There is no exam in the course.

International cooperation

The course is part of the INGENIUM European University "10 days of INGENIUM". In which each partner (10 partners in total) will organize student events. The Junior Schools relate to students enrolled in bachelor, studies from partner universities.

Student workload

The student's workload in the JWS 2025 will be approx. 81 hours (1ECTS = 27 hours)

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

The evaluation is done in relation to the competence goals and evaluation criteria of the course.

Further information

The multidisciplinary groups of INGENIUM BA students from 10 European countries have expanded their entrepreneurial skills, design thinking, multicultural teamwork, and communication skills by solving real-life stakeholders’ challenges and cases in Junior Winter School 2025.
The cases focused on:
-  Nature and Wellbeing
- Smart Cities
- Circular Economy
- Logistics and Security
- Digitalization and Tourism.
The Junior Winter School included three online sessions, individual work, and one week of physical mobility.