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Students develop ideas on how to make Tampere the best student city in Europe in 2030

Published on 11.11.2021
Tampere Universities
Tuni-ratikka ja opiskelijoita 2021.
The City of Tampere and Tampere Universities will participate with a joint commission in the Sprint Innovation Festival for higher education students on 15-19 November. The objective is to create large visions and brave suggestions on how to make Tampere the most attractive student city in Europe in 2030.

More than 500 students from Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences will participate in the Sprint Innovation Festival. Multidisciplinary student teams will solve a total of 15 challenges given by large and small companies and public sector organisations.

During the week, student teams are supported by coaches and experts of different fields but students are in charge of the contents and their presentation for the commission makers. The joint theme of the year is sustainability – social, environmental and economic.

The City of Tampere and Tampere Universities now participate in the Sprint Innovation Festival with a joint commission for the first time. The commission was formulated to an objective ”Tampere – the most attractive student city in Europe 2030”.

The commission makers hope that higher education students will approach the challenge in an open-minded manner.

“The higher education institutions in Tampere have held top positions in Finnish application statistics year after year but we also want to make Tampere well-known in Europe. To be the best student city in Europe is the very least we can aim at,” tells Coordinator of Universities Cooperation Max Liikka from the City of Tampere.

The international scale of the challenge is well-founded.

“Internationality, student wellbeing and sustainable development are important objectives for both the universities community and the city. We wanted to combine them in our challenge and hear what the multidisciplinary student teams suggest,” tells Marketing Specialist Marika Nygård from Tampere University.

The challenge can be approached from several viewpoints, such as the city environment, wellbeing, work, housing or safety.

“We encourage student teams to develop ideas in a big way and bravely but at the same time concretely in such a way that we can work on the ideas in practice,” says Internal Communications Producer Leena Stenman from Tampere University of Applied Sciences.

The City of Tampere and Tampere Universities agreed on strategic cooperation with the aim of increasing the attraction of Tampere as an international city. Read more about the topic: City of Tampere and Tampere Universities sign strategic partnership agreement

The Sprint Innovation Festival 2021 week on 15-19 November will take place online, as last year. The winning proposals will be published in a grand closing ceremony on Friday afternoon on 19 November.


More information:

City of Tampere:
Max Liikka, Coordinator, Universities cooperation, tel. 041 730 8868, max.liikka [at] tampere.fi

Tampere University:
Marika Nygård, Marketing Specialist, tel. 050 384 4900, marika.nygard [at] tuni.fi

Tampere University of Applied Sciences:
Leena Stenman, Producer, Internal Communications, tel. 050 384 4900, leena.stenman [at] tuni.fi