Piia Nurmi, Inka Mäkiö, Maarit Jaakola
Available at Digicampus platform
Students work in multi-disciplinary teams, each team dedicated to one sustainability project. They get to experience how it feels like to use their knowledge to make a positive impact on the world. Additionally, there are articles to read, videos to watch etc. online. There will be online meetings with the teachers during the study weeks as well as online meetings with the team.
Self and peer assessment 30%
Teacher assessment 40%
Client assessment 30%
English
13.03.2023 - 04.05.2023
01.12.2022 - 07.01.2023
20 - 70
Engineering and Business
Main responsible teacher at TUAS: Piia Nurmi
Teachers: Inka Mäkiö
Other teachers from
1. University of Helsinki
2. LAB
3. Metropolia
Avoimen opiskelijoille varattu 5 paikkaa. (not translated)
Degree Programme in Energy and Environmental Technology
Location-independent
5 credits
H-5
No alternative ways to do the course.
No exam.
As this is an online course based on tasks:
- You don't have the possibility to raise your final grade or a grade for an individual task.
Innovation pedagogy. This means that the learning takes place in a variety of ways: by self-study but also by learning from peers. This is a flexible model for learning that does not offer straightforward answers but motivates the students to work towards goals and take responsibility of their work and learning.
Tasks informed on the Digicampus platform
The course is of 5 ECTS so the workload is 135 hours all together.
Solutions.now is an e-course (online study course). Course starts on Monday 13.3.2022. The course lasts for 8 weeks so it finalized by 2.5.2022.
There will be online lectures and course work on Mondays and Thursdays during that 8 week period (93 hours).
Other work (42 hours) on the course will also be online but you can do those in your own time.
Study days are Mondays and Thursdays. Mondays are lecturing and seminar days, except 1.5.203 is transferred to Tuesday 2.5. Thursdays are for mentoring sessions.
Dates, Online sessions
Monday, 13.3., 9-11 kick-off and introduction of challenges
Thursday, 16.3., 9-12 mentoring
Thursday, 23.3., 9-12 mentoring
Monday, 27.3., 9-11 workshop with companies
Thursday, 30.3., 9-12 mentoring
Thursday, 7.4., 9-12 mentoring
Monday, 3.4. 9.11 mid-seminar
Easter holidays 8.-11.4.2023
Thursday, 13.4., 9-12 mentoring
Thursday, 20.4., 9-12 mentoring
Thursday, 27.4., 9-12 mentoring
Tuesday, 2.5., 9-13 final seminar
Thursday, 4.5., 9-11 feedback session
Not taking part or not taking part actively enough
1.Creativity competence:
Not really able to combine knowledge from different fields to come up with novel solutions to sustainability problems.
Poorly familiar with different creative problem-solving tools.
2. Initiative competence:
Not really able to work towards goals and to take responsibility of own work and learning.
3. Systems thinking competence:
Not really able to understand structure and dynamics of complex systems related to solving sustainability challenges in a real-life project.
Not really able to describe given sustainability challenges from multiple perspectives.
No so good in critical thinking.
4. Strategic competence:
Not able to create transition and intervention strategies to enact change.
Does not really understands the basic principles of project management and cannot plan and lead a project from beginning to end.
Student feels uncomfortable using different project management tools and does not understand the basics of working with companies and other stakeholders.
Student is not able to reflect on, and deal with, possible risks.
Student is not able to manage expectations and anticipated results of projects.
5. Interpersonal competence:
Poor communicative and collaborative skills.
Student is not so able to organize and manage working in a multi-disciplinary team of individuals.
Student does not really understand the basics of projects’ internal and external communications.
Student cannot really apply collaborative working methods in his/her work.
1.Creativity competence:
Able to combine knowledge from different fields to come up with novel solutions to sustainability problems.
Familiar with different creative problem-solving tools.
2. Initiative competence:
Able to work towards goals and to take responsibility of own work and learning.
3. Systems thinking competence:
Able to understand structure and dynamics of complex systems related to solving sustainability challenges in a real-life project.
Able to describe given sustainability challenges from multiple perspectives.
Good in critical thinking.
4. Strategic competence:
Able to create transition and intervention strategies to enact change.
Does understands the basic principles of project management and can plan and lead a project from beginning to end.
Student feels comfortable using different project management tools and does understand the basics of working with companies and other stakeholders.
Student is able to reflect on, and deal with, possible risks.
Student is able to manage expectations and anticipated results of projects.
5. Interpersonal competence:
Good communicative and collaborative skills.
Student is able to organize and manage working in a multi-disciplinary team of individuals.
Student does understand the basics of projects’ internal and external communications.
Student can apply collaborative working methods in his/her work.
1.Creativity competence:
Able to combine really well knowledge from different fields to come up with novel solutions to sustainability problems.
Very familiar with different creative problem-solving tools and is able to use them well.
2. Initiative competence:
Excellent in working towards goals and taking responsibility of own work and learning.
3. Systems thinking competence:
Able to understand very well the structure and dynamics of complex systems related to solving sustainability challenges in a real-life project.
Able to solve given sustainability challenges from multiple perspectives.
Excellent in critical thinking.
4. Strategic competence:
Very good in creating transition and intervention strategies to enact change.
Does understands the principles of project management very well and can plan and lead a project from beginning to end.
Student feels very comfortable using different project management tools and does understand the basics of working with companies and other stakeholders.
Student is very capable to reflect on, and deal with, possible risks.
Student is very capable to manage expectations and anticipated results of projects.
5. Interpersonal competence:
Very good communicative and collaborative skills.
Student is very capable to organize and manage working in a multi-disciplinary team of individuals.
Student is very good in projects’ internal and external communications.
Student can very well apply collaborative working methods in his/her work.