International project studies
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Demola offers university students the opportunity to do meaningful project studies as part of interdisciplinary team and international community.
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Why international project experience is valuable?
Gaining practical experience
By working on real-world projects, you can apply your theoretical knowledge in practical settings and develop valuable skills such as problem-solving, critical thinking, creativity and collaboration.
Expand Your Network
Collaborating with diverse peers broadens networks and establishes valuable connections across disciplines.
Enhancing Your Resume
International project experience is highly valued by employers, and can help you stand out in a competitive job market.
Exploring the Working Mechanism of Demola
Join co-creation process and tap into the collective intelligence of a diverse community. Collaborate remotely with other students worldwide, or meet your local team on campus. All teams have a designated Demola co-creation expert to support them.
Global distributed teams
Experience a truly international collaboration with diverse remote teams, backed by expert support and Demola online platform.
Hybrid teams in locations
In addition to platform, you can take advantage of local events and work with your team in-person as well.
Discover Your Demola Project
Student, do meaningful project studies as part of interdisciplinary team.
Tampere
Byte-powered Future
Gamifying Politics
Broadcasting any activity without interaction is a tradition of the past. It applies also to politics, which is not too easy to approach for general public in the first place. To bring politics closer to people, one identified approach is to gamify it, and that is exactly what we are doing in this project. Various sports have gained a major boost thanks to some gamified approaches that promote commitment in a long-lasting effort. Examples can be found from Finnish Ice hockey league and its gamified platform Liigapörssi, or american football league NFL and the game made for that: fantasy football. How should such gamified platform be like when adapted to the world of politics? This project gets its inspiration from various interaction mechanics from all walks of life and mashes them up for elevated experience when it comes to politics. Join the project to play around and create the true interest for the politics of tomorrow!
Apply by 04 May
Helsinki, Oulu, Tampere, Vaasa
Healing the Planet
Green Ticket Options
In this project we want to focus on sustainable consumer decision-making. As a context we are interested in cruise industry. On cruises, most of the sustainability burden comes from the fuel used by the ship. There are many options nowadays for different bio-based fuels, hydrogen or even ammonia, which are much less polluting than diesel. Still, cruise companies are not purchasing the new engines or the sustainable fuels for their existing engines. The main concern is that consumers are not willing to pay extra for the sustainable options. At the same time the companies are not even trying to communicate or offer these sustainable options. What would be the sustainable ticket type for Helsinki-Stockholm route cruise in the future? How should we visualize the information for the customer when they are buying the tickets? What kind of promises we should make and what kind of data could be useful for the customer? This project is for you, if you are interested in business models, sustainability, consumer behaviour, new technologies or online commerce!
Apply by 04 May
Helsinki, Tampere, Vaasa
Human Beings in the Modern World
Smart City as Your Servant
Smart cities are making people’s life easier around the world, even where we don’t see the value directly. With technology-enhanced humane sensory, it might be possible to see cities that are truly smart in a whole new way. Imagine that you have all the possible and relevant data available and delivered to you exactly as you like, when you need, and you are in the core of this project. Assuming situation where city dwellers are equipped with AR glasses, smart audio devices, wearable cameras and whatnot, how might open data and other available data be delivered with the intent of added value to everyday life? What are some troublesome, boring of difficult situations where being a “lightweight android” could help massively? How will going by our everyday lives be in the future with the constant enhancing of modern, wearable technologies? What are the features of a smart city providing the new ways of living that create the gold standard? This project takes you walking around in a city, identifying and innovating the superb, smart ways of everyday life of the future. As the result, various data sources will be combined for value-adding functionalities, visualized as realistically as possible.
Apply by 04 May
Helsinki, Tampere, Vaasa
Byte-powered Future
Construction in Metaverse
One of the longest lasting problems in construction industry is the lack of communication between the design and building phases of the projects. Architects have great visions for the buildings but many of the visions are toned down or changed dramatically because of lack of communication. The builders don’t do this intentionally, but they might lack the understanding of compounding small details resulting in dramatic accessibility or usability issues in buildings. Building Information Modeling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_information_modeling) is adapted nowadays for big construction projects. It is basically a detailed 3D model for the building and is used mainly for the construction and maintenance purposes. What if we would transform the BIM models from static 3D representations of the property to fully dynamic metaverse environment where they would act as living and breathing digital twins for the property? Considering the models would be perfect, we would know exactly what is hidden behind the walls and ceiling. How might the metaverse environment enable us to create completely new kind of maintenance, design and renovation services with BIMs? How would the metaverse BIM look like and what would be the best interfaces for it now and in the future (smart phone, computers, VR goggles, etc…)? In this project we aim to build a metaverse environment where the user can play around with simple models and design different use cases for renovation, design and construction purposes.
Apply by 04 May
Glasgow, Tampere
Byte-powered Future
Modernized Healthcare Intake
Public healthcare systems around the world share a common problem: rising costs and traditional services make it difficult for nations to maintain the quality and affordability of these services at a reasonable level. In many places, parts of the services have been digitised (e.g., paper forms converted to PDFs), but there are still very few examples of fully digitalised service experiences. The goal of this project is to design a service that implements low-threshold, highly digitalized care for patients. The aim is to free up more time for healthcare professionals to focus on their patients rather than paperwork or false positives (people who really don’t need to see a healthcare professional). Assuming that we had access to all the data about an individual’s life, health, and habits, how would we design the early steps of healthcare with the technology available and coming up? What aspects and situations might create the biggest impact when digitalized? How would the service look and feel from the patient’s perspective? Join us in creating meaningful digitalisation in the public healthcare sector!
Apply by 04 May
Glasgow, Tampere
Healing the Planet
Towards Net-zero in Software
Sustainability is advancing rapidly through different industries and consumers are increasingly aware of its importance. In software industry manufacturing (developing) and logistics (distribution) are not the main concerns. Most of the emissions in software come from the use of the services. On the other hand, consumers are not necessarily thinking their smart phone apps or computer software has any impact on the climate change or reaching the net-zero goals. Currently the studies show that ICT sector contributes to 3,9 % of the global greenhouse gases, but it is projected to rise to 14 % by 2040. The regulations regarding sustainability of software will keep on getting stricter towards the future, so the right time to prepare is now. A three-party model has been identified as a potential approach, where software buyers would be able to define the sustainability metrics, software providers to certify their sustainability concretely and developers to keep up with the metrics. How should such system work in practice? What are the factors that are meaningful in the process and how would products and certificates look and feel like to have an impact. Join the project to create concrete demos of greener, certified software model!
Apply by 04 May
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Tampere
Milestone Event
08/05/2025
Spring Showcase: Innovation + Startups
Prague
Milestone Event
15/05/2025
Demola Czechia National Finals
Oulu
Milestone Event
29/04/2025
Demola Oulu Finals Spring 2025
Helsinki
Milestone Event
12/12/2024
National Demola Finals 2024
Vaasa
Milestone Event
10/12/2024
Local Demola Finals in Vaasa
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Tampere
Milestone Event
15/11/2024
National Demola Mid-event 2024
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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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Demola is already building the future through its Autumn 2024 Innovation Portfolio . This season’s projects tackle some of the most pressing global issues, focusing on sustainability, emerging technologies, and the future of work.
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In today’s rapidly evolving world, businesses need fresh ideas and innovative thinking more than ever. Demola , a global co-creation platform, brings together companies and talented university students to tackle the challenges of tomorrow. By collaborating with young innovators, companies gain unique insights into emerging trends and strategies to stay ahead of the curve.
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01/02/2024
Kuka? Mikä Demola? Missä?
(ENG: As our hubs in Finland are growing in numbers, we thought it would be nice to give a brief introduction to Demola’s innovation projects also in Finnish. Please click "In English" for the English translation.) Demola-projekteja on tehty Suomessa jo vuodesta 2008, ja kansainvälisen osallistujajoukkomme ansiosta työkielemme on aina ollut englanti. Vaikka työkieleemme ei ole tullut muutosta, Suomessa olevien hubiemme eli paikallisten toimipisteidemme kasvaessa ajattelimme, että pieni paketti Demolasta suomeksi olisi paikallaan. Tässä siis lyhyt katsaus Demola-projekteista toisella kotimaisella kielellämme.
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