Challenge Bank

Challenge Bank is a place where meets:

ENTREPRENEURS AND ORGANIZATIONS interested in innovation and willing to cooperate and

STUDENTS AND TEACHERS who are interested in real needs of organizations, ideas and challenges of companies and society.

Challenge Bank

Accumulates and collects creative, innovative and socially significant needs, ideas and challenges of companies and society, which are used in Innovation Co-Creation Laboratories, Business Laboratories, Hackathons, Study works, etc.;
Strengthens cooperation between the university, industry and society as a whole;
Encourages students to work on meaningful projects and research;
Strengthens the research capacity of Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences, promoting the connection with issues important to the region, industry and the whole society.

SUBMIT YOUR CHALLENGE or CHOOSE FROM SUBMITTED ONES

“We can already see the added value of cooperation between industry and students. It is a great opportunity to offer students to gain experience and understanding of the work for actual companies through the learning process and cooperation. We see that entrepreneurs can get an innovative point of view of their given challenges, they will be able to get to know their potential employees, and it is also a great opportunity to support and strengthen the higher education institution of the Vidzeme Region.”

- Entrepreneurs CSDD and SIA SunGIS

STEP BY STEP | How innovation is made?

Submit your own or select one of the given tasks in the Idea Bank

Students choose and apply for the most suitable assignment

Applications are being evaluated

Students work together with mentors and the task giver on the development of the task

Solutions, research, prototypes, etc. presentation of reports and results is available in the Idea Bank

The Challange Bank have been evaluated as effective tool for developing innovation and building cooperation, which has already been confirmed by more than 50 partners from Latvian companies and organizations with their involvement.

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partners