Collaboration for you & your students
Validated Topics, Inspiring Connections
As an educator, you know that company collaboration builds more than employability – it helps students genuinely grow as emerging experts. Demola can bring industry-driven innovation project topics into your teaching environment, enriching your courses and giving your students meaningful, real-world experience without adding to your administrative workload.
Industry-Relevancy Guaranteed
Why Collaborate with Demola?
Validated, Globally Relevant Topics
Forget abstract simulations. Our project portfolio is co-designed with direct input from industry partners and grounded in insights from previous Demola projects. This ensures your students work on topics that are not only engaging but also carry real, validated relevance.
Expert Sparring
Active students receive honest, high-quality guidance and constructive feedback throughout the project. With years of experience in innovation work, we are committed to strong outcomes and draw on the cumulative knowledge gained from earlier Demola projects.
Quality Industry Connections
Active teams with promising results gain opportunities to validate their solutions directly with company experts. These are experienced professionals and subject-matter specialists, offering meaningful feedback and contributing to the co-creation process.
Key Principles for Running Projects with Students
Smart Topic Selection
The project portfolio includes topics designed either for interdisciplinary innovation teams or for course-specific, targeted development work.
Adaptable Team Formation
Teams are formed either through an open call or according to the practices of the university’s project-based courses.
Administrative Support
We have extensive experience and dedicated tools for managing processes, including learning platforms, IPR agreements, and issuing certificates.
Expert-Led Facilitation
We prioritise meaningful content and active engagement. Our focus is on facilitation and providing expert feedback on both content and decision-making.
Pathways to Validation
Opportunities for validation with companies and other stakeholders are available to teams producing relevant and promising results.
Industry-Academia Ecosystem
We believe that the most impactful innovation happens at the intersection of academia, industry, and emerging talent. This collaboration, however, thrives on authentic personal connections, which we are dedicated to facilitating.
Motivation Meets Opportunity
Our innovation projects serve as a natural hub – like a honeypot – attracting the right kind of people. They draw in motivated students eager to apply their skills, engaged company experts looking for fresh perspectives, and active professors who are passionate about building bridges beyond the university walls.
Trust Through Collaboration
Because everyone participates with a mindset to contribute, trust is built organically, and new cross-domain relationships are formed. This creates an informal, dynamic network and a community built not on formal meetings, but on shared purpose and hands-on co-creation.
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Become Part of the Network
Join a network of like-minded educators, project opportunities, and industry collaboration – all supporting your teaching, research, and student engagement. Get in touch to discuss the possibilities, such as which students to involve, suitable schedules, goals, how to integrate the project into your teaching, the collaboration model, and more.
