Bioinnovation (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

F-5

Location and time

Course starts 26.2.2024 This is a fully online course given through the DigiCampus Moodle platform (https://digicampus.fi/course/view.php?id=5565; login with HAKA login and credentials from your home university). Please register to the course both in Peppi and in Digicampus! All details regarding the course schedule will be sent out over email. The course is available as cross-studies (ristiinopiskelu), please regiater for the course through Peppi at your home university. 1. Register for the course on Digicampus using you home university’s credentials 2. Use the Cross-institutional studies option (RIPA) to register for the course through your home university’s Peppi - If you are unable to register through RIPA, please use the e-form found here: https://www.abo.fi/en/about-abo-akademi-university/faculties/faculty-of-science-and-engineering/cross-institutional-studies-at-the-faculty-of-science-and-engineering/#jobitti 3. Credits are automatically transferred for students who have registered through RIPA - If you have registered using the e-form you can use OmaOpintopolku to transfer credits from ÅAU to your home university

Materials

The course is taught fully online and all the material is available in electronic form through DigiCampus Moodle learning platform (https://digicampus.fi/course/view.php?id=5565 ; login with HAKA login and credentials from your home university).

Teaching methods

Video lectures, other video material, self-correcting quizzes to each module, project work in groups to solve a life science-oriented challenge (own challenge that you want to work with or a provided challenge), written report, pitch videos prepared in groups, peer-review of pitches.

Employer connections

During the course, you will do project work in groups on a challenge that business clients from the bioscience, biomedicine, and pharmacy fields have faced. External experts from the industry will be invited to evaluate the students' pitch videos and final reports and provide them with feedback.

Completion alternatives

Online remote course

Student workload

Lectures (video material): 10 h Reading provided module material on your own time: 25 h Group work: 5 weeks * 5 h/week = 25 h Video production of the pitch = 2 h Peer-review of pitches: 3 h Quizzes + preparation: 5 weeks * 2 h/week= 10 h Report preparation + writing: 7 h * 4 weeks = 28 h Studies on your own time: 32 h