Eight Inspiring Weeks with Students
What kind of experience is Demola from a partner organization's perspective? Laura Kukkonen worked together with university students to solve a challenge concerning youth unemployment in Kuopio last spring. After the experience, Kukkonen sees Demola as a tool to bring together people from different backgrounds in a completely new way.
The Demola team for employment services was supported throughout the journey by Erik Nyroos, a Co-Creation Expert of Demola. Erik was responsible for ensuring that the project progressed as planned.
“Erik was a really good leader who created a positive atmosphere for our team. Erik was responsible for ensuring that the work progresses by the Demola process,” says Kukkonen.
The concept is well designed and clearly generates innovative ideas. Sometimes Demola challenges you and hard, but everything that is done has a good basis.
Kukkonen was positively surprised by the systematic and punctual nature of Demola.
“Demola brings together students and organizations in a concrete way. The concept is well designed and clearly generates innovative ideas. Sometimes Demola challenges you and hard, but everything that is done has a good basis. In difficult times, both partners and students should trust the good outcomes,” Kukkonen encourages.
The Employment Services project involved students from the University of Eastern Finland and the Savonia University of Applied Sciences from fields such as technology, economics and social sciences. According to Kukkonen, this was one of the reasons why the work was so productive.
“Demola showed that people from all kind of backgrounds are capable of having courageous and open discussions. After participating in Demola, the idea that things should be developed with atypical groups is just strengthened in my mind. We should boldly bring together people from different backgrounds to brainstorm. This is certainly the key to generate more and more innovations in this country.”
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Date of publication
31/10/2019
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Riikka Kämppi
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