Geospatial Challenge Camp 2025 Info Session

Venue: Online/Teams Organizer: University of Aalto, University of Turku in collaboration with Geoportti and Location Innovation Hub Date: 15.01.2025 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Homepage: https://challenge-camp.geoportti.fi/en/latest/

The Geospatial Challenge Camp is a skills development and innovation service of Geoportti Research Infrastructure and Location Innovation Hub (LIH) which is one of the European Digital Innovation Hubs. The Geospatial Challenge Camp is a 12-week long challenge-based course (5 ECTS) that aims to provide participants a chance to tackle relevant real-world challenges in cross-disciplinary teams. The participants are doctoral and post-doctoral researchers plus master students from Finnish universities and research organizations. They will work together in multidisciplinary teams and collaborate with mentors and stakeholders.

The course aims to identify and analyze complex location and time-related societal problems that requires the designing and building of digital impact-driven solutions, scientists from various disciplines will work together on real-world sustainable solutions. Participants will benefit their professional growth regarding the use of data, technology, and application innovations stemming from the Geoportti project.

The challenges will be posed by societal actors, data providers, companies, NGOs and innovation community actors and they will offer to Researchers the chance to expand their data science solutions into new operative solutions and make a broader societal impact in Finland and beyond.

There is an Info Session on the 15th of January 2025, 13:00 – 14:00, to talk about the Challenge Camp and the benefits of participating for organisations.
Details for the Info Session are:
Meeting ID: 397 948 829 670
Passcode: ii6YR7Xd
About the Geospatial Challenge Camp
This unique innovation program brings together international, multidisciplinary teams from Finnish universities to address health and well-being challenges brought forward by companies, PSOs, and NGOs.
Why Participate?
Over the course of 12 weeks, participants will leverage geospatial data, cutting-edge technologies, and an HPC environment, sponsored by CSC, to develop demos and actionable solutions. These can be taken forward by your organization for further development.
Last year, the Challenge Camp yielded impressive results:
  • Four teams developed innovative solutions.
  • Two teams continued their development journey post-camp.
  • One of these, “Smart Cities for Sensitive Minds,” won the Built Environment Location Innovation Award last autumn!