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Capstone is a learning environment where students and companies from different disciplines and fields combine efforts to work on joint innovation projects.

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About Capstone Capstone is a great opportunity for any company to meet future professionals. The innovative setting offers a platform for developing ideas or testing them in practice. Fresh viewpoints result in a concept, model, prototype or report, serving as a tool for the client company in their development work.

Capstone provides students with working life skills, prepares them for possible future entrepreneurship, and allows them to graduate with a better grasp of project work. It may also offer a practical testing environment for a concept, product or service.

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The students' active, developmentoriented approach even stimulated our

own actions. - Rauha Maarno, special needs library Celia

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Ways of working The students work in multidisciplinary and often international teams of 6 to 10 members. The projects run from 11/2018 to 5/2019. This brings each student 15 credits which equals 400 h of work per capita, so a 10-member group has about 2.5 person-years to be spent on the project.

Project progression:

1. The first six weeks are spent on ideation; the teams set out to find a variety of alternative solutions.

2. The subsequent 16 weeks are spent on implementing ideas in practice. During this time, the company and the team meet roughly every 2 to 3 weeks.

3. The last four weeks are reserved for presenting and evaluating project outcomes.

VISION

PROBLEM/ CHALLENGE

6 WEEKS

IMPLEMENTATION & PROTOTYPE

16 WEEKS

EVALUATION

4 WEEKS

What we offer The project groups seek to solve existing problems both by ideating and by doing concrete hands-on work. The many laboratory premises at TUAS are available for project groups, for example. A mere rough theme for a project is enough to get the students started. Forces are then combined to refine the theme into a project plan and subsequent practical implementation.

The participation fee for companies is 1000 â‚Ź.

Want to take part?

Contact us and we'll tell you more.

Kari Haajanen +358 50 5985 694 kari.haajanen@turkuamk.ďŹ

Projects from previous years are presented at capstone.dc.turkuamk.fi