Practical experience
Prove What You Can Do
Landing a job takes more than talent, it takes action. Demola gives you the chance to tackle real challenges, collaborate with others, and build proof of what you can do even when things are uncertain. By actively participating in a Demola project, you can turn your skills into compentencies and concrete experience.
Partnered with Innovative Companies
Demola Project Model: Real Projects, Real Impact
Our platform, created together with leading companies and professors, connects you to real-world innovation projects. You’ll work as part of a team on an innovation and development project, guided by Demola’s expert facilitators. Participating in a project will give you practical experience and the confidence to deal with complexity in any job.
What to Expect?
At Demola, innovation projects are built around real-world project topics co-designed with companies and public-sector organisations. If selected, you'll join an innovation team working to develop meaningful solutions that respond to validated needs.
Work on Real Challenges
Our projects tackle complex, relevant problems grounded in industry and societal needs. You'll work in a team to design and demo solutions, benefiting from the insights and findings of previous Demola projects. Most Demola projects last around two months, but the exact duration depends on the programme they are part of.
Guided, Not Handheld
Each team benefits from expert guidance through coaching sessions and facilitated community events. Demola's facilitators bring years of experience in innovation and adapt their support to match your ambition and commitment. You are expected to take an active role, both individually and as a team.
Co-Create and Validate
You'll co-create with other teams and Demola's experts, and validate and test your solutions with real stakeholders to continuously refine your approach. High-performing teams gain access to a network of professionals from Demola's industry partners for further input and exposure.
Grow Professionally
You'll build in-demand, career-ready skills in creative problem-solving, AI-assisted innovation, project management, international collaboration, and resilience ' all while working in an environment that mirrors real innovation practices.
Own Your Impact
Your team owns the outcomes created during the project. Use them in job interviews, your portfolio, a Master's thesis, or even as the foundation of a startup. In some cases, your work may also earn you academic credit (ECTS) if you are a student.
The impact
Proven Skills Development
Ready to turn your skills into competence? Our claims are backed by feedback from our community of participants and alumni.
Great impact on the growth of working life capabilities
Strongly agree (49.3%)
Agree (43.6%)
Neither agree or disagree (5.3%)
Disagree (1.3%)
Strongly disagree (0.5%)
Perceived impact on skills development
2 272 people took part in the survey.
New skills
65.6%
Valuable work experience
63.9%
New friends
51.5%
Startup ideas
34.4%
International teamwork experience
30.5%
Industry contacts
23.9%
Self-esteem
23.9%
New motivation to study
22.8%
Confidence in career choices
20.3%
Researcher contacts
17.6%
Better position in the labor market
13.5%
Other
1.5%
Based on Q4/2022 survey
Who Can Participate?
University Students
If you’re currently studying at or near one of our Demola locations or partner universities, you’re welcome to join a Demola project.
Current Demola Locations:
Finland:Tampere, Oulu, Vaasa, Turku, Jyväskylä
Japan:Tokyo, Sapporo
Czechia:Prague, Ostrava
Hungary:Budapest
United Kingdom:GlasgowGraduates & Professionals
In our partner cities, the projects are also open to graduates and professionals who are exploring new career paths or interested in co-creating and launching startups in the future.
Current Partner Cities for these Opportunities:
Finland:Tampere, Oulu, Riihimäki
After a Demola Project
Many alumni have participated in more than one Demola project – the current record is seven. For active alumni, we facilitate further development in their academic studies or future careers:
Master’s Thesis
Explore or fine-tune your Master’s thesis topic through a Demola project and find a potential industry collaborator for your Master’s thesis after the project.
Verified Expert Profile & Industry Connections
Develop an expert profile that highlights your project contributions, as well as innovation and interpersonal skills. Top-performing participants will have their expert profiles shared and recommended within Demola’s partner network, verifying their skills and proactive mindset.
Startup Development
Build on your project results, connect with like-minded teammates, and use your entrepreneurial mindset to lay the groundwork for a startup.
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Approve
If you get selected, confirm your seat and start the teamwork.
Discover Your Demola Project
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Helsinki, Oulu, Tampere, Tokyo, Vaasa
Human Beings in the Modern World
Healthcare Superplatform
Currenty public healthcare service apps are very limited due to the lack of ability to utilize user’s personal data and 3rd party integrations. We are missing lots of efficiency and personalization due to the rigidness and basic digitalization of the healthcare services. There are lots of good but separated data hubs (like kanta.fi) where the information exists, but it is not used for our benefit. What if we could build a superplatform for public healthcare users, aka citizens? How might we aggregate personal, medical and lifestyle data from the public healthcare sector, 3rd party service providers and users themselves to build new kinds of value propositions for the citizens? Which would be the first simple use cases where the public healthcare sector and 3rd party service providers could offer extremely good service for the citizens? In this project we aim to build use cases and demonstrate those through simple apps and user interfaces. We are looking for people interested in software engineering, data sciences, healthcare, service design and UX.
Apply by 10 Aug
Helsinki, Oulu, Tampere, Tokyo, Vaasa
Human Beings in the Modern World
VIP Event Experience
Event experience is extremely standardized nowadays. Everyone who buys a ticket gets same experience during the event. 5G Advanced and 6G positioning paired with “superplatform” of personal information could be used to tailer event experience to another level. What if you don’t have to show your ticket to anyone, but the gates recognize you and you can just walk in? What if the bartender at the venue knows already what you would like to drink? The opportunities are limitless, and we are eager to explore them with you. How to build personalized VIP experience for every visitor by utilizing location data? How can we streamline the visitor experience to know what we have, what we want and what we would like? Let’s assume we have the exact location of the visitors at our disposal and visitor’s personal information and utilize that to personalize the experience for the users. Join the project to create the demonstration of next-generation personalized event experience. If you are interested in events, software, positioning tech, data analytics, UX or visual visual design, this is the project for you!
Apply by 10 Aug
Helsinki, Ostrava, Oulu, Prague, Tampere, Tokyo, Vaasa
Human Beings in the Modern World
Garage as a Service
Traditional car leasing models are growing in popularity. At the same time there have been many trials for different car sharing solutions. We are interested in concepting a service for high-end car brands that offer flexibility and luxury for the customers through a “Garage as a Service”. Instead of leasing one car for 4 years, you could have the flexibility to change the vehicle based on your current needs and change the car at a centralized garage periodically. Is your family growing? Go and change for a bigger car. Want to enjoy the summer in convertible? Go and get the coolest convertible available! How would you productize and design this kind of “garage” service? How could you leverage the trends of hyperpersonalization, sustainability and ease of maintenance in this kind of concept? How would the service be presented to the customers and what would be the “terms of service”? In this project we assume money is not the issue for the customers. Join this project if you are interested in car industry, new business models, service design, visual design or marketing!
Apply by 10 Aug
Helsinki, Ostrava, Oulu, Prague, Tampere, Tokyo, Vaasa
Human Beings in the Modern World
Journalism In Metaverse
In the never-ending fight against mis- and disinformation, reliable news and quality journalism are more important than ever. The problem for traditional news is the interface; whether digital articles or physical news papers, it is extremely hard to offer the reader enough context and sources to fully validate the authenticity and trustworthiness. This leaves lots of space for mis- and disinformation to look just as convincing as the real news. What if we could offer near limitless amounts of sources, background and context for the readers? We want to build demos in metaverse environment to see what kind of user experience would enable transparent journalism in the future. How would a news article in metaverse look like? How much can we utilize the limitless space and different dimensions to visualize the news for the readers? Can we mix different mediums (text, audio, video, etc…) together to create completely new kind of news reading experience? We are looking for students interested in software engineering, game design, journalism, metaverse or UX design.
Apply by 10 Aug
Glasgow, Helsinki, Oulu, Tampere, Tokyo, Vaasa
Byte-powered Future
Sports That Jump Out Of The Screen
Many sports broadcasts are produced with very high quality compared to times a few decades ago. Fans at home can enjoy their experience through advanced statistics, multi-camera feeds and other delicacies delivered real-time. Simultaneously, XR (extended reality) technologies and AI have taken a major leap, so could they be harnessed for even further immersive viewing experience? What if your living room was turned into a proper “war room” with XR? see example: https://demola.net/link/sportsxr. What kind of value-adding visualizations could be made for fans who want to take the viewing experience to the next level? This project continues from a concept by a previous Demola team, whose concept is illustrated in the picture above. Aim is to create tangible concepts for sports broadcasts and take the demonstration as far as the team’s ambition reaches. Join us to make the future of sports come alive!
Apply by 10 Aug
Helsinki, Ostrava, Oulu, Prague, Tampere, Tokyo, Vaasa
Human Beings in the Modern World
Smart Audio
Proper audial experiences have turned from luxury to anyone’s joy. High-quality sound is easily within reach and e.g., genius noise cancelling technology is a household feature in today’s headphones. However, novel technologies such as 3D-audio and AI-powered earbuds are on the market, and they might change the way we hear things in the future. How should the smartness be harnessed? What kind of concepts could be breaking the bank with precision audio direction detection, AI-processing and delivery to eardrums as intended? In which contexts audio is still underutilized and could provide a notable increase to consumer’s experience? Where might smart filtering of desired audio vs. noise be delivering added value? Are you passionate about the sounds you hear? If yes, join us in this project to create concepts that resonate!
Apply by 10 Aug
Student Success Stories
See how Demola has helped students around the world succeed in their careers and personal lives.
Ahiram Cruz Mártinez
Master’s Degree student in Research and Innovation in Higher Education
Excellent
20/04/2023
“I enjoy connecting with other people who are not from the same area and field, and creating new things. I think Demola is a very great platform and, since I’m interested in education, I think this is a great idea to help students and other people to learn in a different way and to be closer to the work life.”
Aleksandra Akmaikina
Master’s Student in Public and Global Health
Excellent
20/04/2023
“I joined Demola for the third time already, since I enjoy how my personal skills are developing here and I love the feeling of freedom of thoughts, to be able to think, feel and express anything.”
Sofia Kasari
Master’s Student in Sustainable Digitalisation
Excellent
20/04/2023
“I wanted more experience in interdisciplinary project work and real-life, tangible development of solutions with external stakeholders. I also wanted to practice what the design process is like in the real world and how to present novel ideas in an attractive, business- oriented way. And Demola delivered!”
Dário Santos
Master’s Degree Student in Engineering and Technology
Excellent
10/06/2022
“In Demola we focused on creating solutions that can and should be applicable and should happen in real life, concrete and implementable solutions that can have an impact. Those type of solutions that go way beyond than just making a new website or a nice social media page.”
Antti Hyytinen
Master of Business
Excellent
17/04/2023
“If you have successfully completed the Demola project, it is proof of your passion and that your mindset is inevitably customer-oriented. Demola is definitely an experience I can recommend to all students.”
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