Future Innovators Module 2 "Hightech Design Sprint"

It's our one-week boot camp at DLR in Cologne

The Hightech Design Sprint teaches a method to identify opportunities to transfer knowledge and technologies by letting teams free-dive into busy scenarios, shadow experts, and observe their work as a first step. Learning and practising Need Identification is the program's core, the foundation for efficient start-ups with high potential impact through a validated understanding of a problem! 

In the boot camp, we will pull you out of your daily work environment and throw you into unknown waters. Together with your multidisciplinary workshop team, hundreds of observations will be conducted. From these, a dozen need statements are developed and analysed for feasibility to filter out two promising approaches; this is the time to transfer your knowledge and rapidly brainstorm solutions. Finally, choose your champion idea and give it a pitch stress test. 

What to learn: 

• Identify Problems and Needs; don't waste resources on useless solutions
• Define measurable outcome; prevent losing the need during development 
• Analyse and filter ideas; are they worth brain power and money?
• Exploit inter-disciplinary teams and diverse professional perspectives
• Rapid development of Proof-of-Concepts, MVPs or Prototypes

             

Professor Jeroen Bergman, Professor at Oxford and Head of Department of Technology and Innovation at the University of Southern Denmark, a renowned figure in innovation development and Europe's leading expert in this field, will be guide us through the Future Innovators' need-led innovation boot camp. This is a unique opportunity to learn from his extensive experiences and gain insights that can transform your approach to innovation.

Our industry host for observations gets announced during the summer. It is better not to wait; we only have limited capacity!

This is your chance to join a multi-discipline team and try need-led innovation yourself for one week in our Future Innovators Academy.

Helmholtz funds our academy. Therefore, members of Helmholtz will receive preferential treatment in our open sign-up. If you and your origin institution are not part of Helmholtz, you will receive a final confirmation after the sign-up closed. Reach out to us for questions.

For PhDs and other students:

Our workshop counts for the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School Credit Point system. If you are part of another graduate school and want your workshop participation accounted for there, message us, and we will contact your organisation and figure out a rating.

Learn more about Future Innovators @ www.future-innovatos.de

^{Future Innovators in a Helmholtz Transfer Academy in collaboration between DLR and DESY, funded by the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association.}