Nordic Independent Living Challenge competition launch

2015-01-30 13:00:00 2015-01-30 16:00:00 Europe/Helsinki Nordic Independent Living Challenge competition launch Join the Nordic Independent Living Challenge Competition launch event. http://old.eea.aalto.fi/en/midcom-permalink-1e4a2f785f3ae48a2f711e4ab7ed7df3d6979f779f7 Betonimiehenkuja 5 C, 02150, Espoo

Join the Nordic Independent Living Challenge Competition launch event.

30.01.2015 / 13:00 - 16:00
Design Factory, Betonimiehenkuja 5 C, 02150, Espoo, FI

Do you have solutions, prototypes, concepts or ideas that could increase the quality of life for the frail elderly and people with disabilities, and make it possible for them to live independently in their own home?

The Nordic Independent Living Challenge competition is a great opportunity to introduce your ideas for the real challenge, to pilot your idea in Nordic capitals, and to build strong Nordic partnerships. During the competition process, you will get monetary and mentoring support to develop your idea. The first prize is ~120 000 € (1 million NOK). Additionally, there is a cross-Nordic collaboration award (~24 000€ / 200.000 NOK) and a student award (~12 000 € / 100.000 NOK).

If your are interested in taking on a big challenge, and introducing innovative and sustainable solutions, join the Nordic Independent Living Challenge competition launching event at Aalto and learn more about the opportunity.

Registration by Wednesday 28 January: tiny.cc/Registration_Aalto_NILC

Competition sitehttp://realchallenge.info/

Program

13:00 Welcoming words, Katja Soini, Aalto Service Factory

13:10 Introduction of the Nordic Independent Living Challenge competition, Kaisa Spilling, Forum Virium Helsinki

13:20 Meet the end-users, Juha Kronqvist, Diagonal

13:40 Customer perspective – What city would need? Arja Peiponen, City of Helsinki

13:50 From idea to innovation – Examples from health technologies, Matti Linnavuo, Aalto Health Factory

14:00 Questions & answers

14:15 Food for thought – Collection of existing solutions, prototypes, concepts and ideas created by researchers and students at Aalto University

14:30 Networking around themes – Pitch ideas and co-create proposals for the competition

15:30–16:00 Next steps in the challenge competition

The event is organised by Aalto Service Factory, Aalto Health Factory and Forum Virium Helsinki in collaboration with Nordic Innovation, City of Helsinki, Encore, Sotera and Urban Academy.