For students

WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY FOR THE INGENIOUS COURSE

In this course you are given the opportunity to collaborate with other LiU students, from various programs and faculties, in an interdisciplinary project group. All project groups in the course work with real-life challenges from the region's trade & industry as well as the public sector. The challenges are connected to the UN's sustainable development goals, which can result in sustainable solutions not only making a difference at the regional level but also nationally and globally.

Cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration form an essential part of the course and are practised in group work and through the "pitches", which are both parts of the course's examination and part of the presentation directed to the external parties.

We emphasize the importance of thinking sustainably and responsibly throughout the innovation process. As a student, you are also given the opportunity to create networks for your future and develop your personal and professional skills. The inGenious course, which aims to promote entrepreneurial ability, is in many ways practical. Here you can turn your theoretical knowledge into practice. Your competence in the project group is important. You may be the only one in the group who has knowledge and expertise in a particular area. In that way, you will learn a lot from each other.

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  • LiU's course inGenious - a cross-disciplinary project [8 credits, 25%] - is a different project course compared to others.
  • You must have at least 90 approved credits to be accepted. Charlotte Norrman (IEI) is the course coordinator and examiner.
  • If there are English-speaking students, the course is given entirely in English. Grading scales are U, G, VG but can be adapted to the ECTS grading system.
  • The pedagogy used is Challenge-based learning.
  • Current projects are announced on our web platform. After applying for the course, the students "wish" for three projects and write a "personal letter" about themself. Then we start creating project groups. After being assigned to a project, a student can be admitted to the course.
  • The course is given at Campus Valla, Campus Norrköping and in Almi East Sweden AB's premises in Industrilandskapet, near Campus Norrköping. Students that take the course have free access to our premises in Studenthuset, Campus Valla.
  • You find the syllabus and more information about the course on LiU's website: https://liu.se/en/education/course/799g52

UNIQUE COLLABORATION MAKES IT INGENIOUS

The course is a collaboration between LiU and Almi East Sweden AB, a subsidiary of Almi Företagspartner i Östergötland AB. LiU is responsible for the academic elements (seminars, workshops) and assessment. Almi East Sweden AB is in turn responsible for contacting companies in the region, designing challenges in consultation with the companies as well as providing the pitch training. The students have access to facilitators from Almi East Sweden AB during the whole course, which they can turn to. Our student groups own their solutions and it's not uncommon that the challenge provider offers to buy the project results. Almi East Sweden AB is an important legal party in case companies want to buy a student group's results. That's why it's inGenious!

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Our premises at Studenthuset, Campus Valla. 4th floor.

DON'T JUST TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT

Watch our video about the course and get the opinions and insights of participants, alumni and challenge providers.

inGenious Challenges

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Emergency Care Outside the Urban Core

Good health and well-being
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Sustainable cities and communities

Today, tests are being conducted around the country using drones to deliver defibrillators during cardiac arrest, where every minute counts. Drones could also be used to transport medical supplies to those in need in more remote areas. In addition, media transmission from an accident site using drones could improve decision-making before ambulance care arrives. Region Östergötland wants help to find out what's required to transport defibrillators or other medical supplies with drones outside urban areas? How can we enable surveillance and media transmission from an accident site?

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The Future of Medical Transport

Good health and well-being
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Sustainable cities and communities

How can drones enhance our transport methods? What is the economic viability of using drones compared to current transport modes? Can we create predetermined, approved flight routes for the drones? Welcome to a forward-thinking challenge where you explore the possibility of using drones for medical transport. Region Östergötland (RÖ) has identified a need to streamline and expedite transport between Primary Care units, vaccination clinics, and other health and medical services. Seize the opportunity to help Region Östergötland step into the future!

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Empowering Farmers with Sustainable Energy Solutions

Affordable and clean energy
Responsible consumption and production
Climate action

Lovang Lantbrukskonsult AB is an advisory service for farmers, primarily in Östergötland. The importance of energy has increased due to environmental challenges such as global warming and climate change. However, recent events such as the Russian aggression have also highlighted the vulnerability issues. This development affects society as a whole and Swedish agriculture in particular. The goal is to find different solutions to become energy independent at farm level. We are looking for a solution that can benefit our farmers and, at the same time, lead to new business opportunities. Ultimately, this challenge offers a chance to make a meaningful contribution towards a more sustainable future for the Swedish agricultural industry.  

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How to make empty premises visible

Decent work and economic growth
Sustainable cities and communities
Responsible consumption and production

Sankt Kors is a municipality-owned company that builds and develops properties in Linköping for new companies and companies in change. The company wants help to find new angles and suggestions on how the visualisation of empty premises can be done, both physically at the premises but also digitally. This challenge also involves getting the right stakeholders into the right environments. How can Sankt Kors highlight the USPs for their areas in a better way? How design the communication in a way that makes it clearer? And how create an area outside the middle of the city centre that still feel central?

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Developing VentMee - the future platform for bringing people together

Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Sustainable cities and communities

VentMee is a digital service developed by a student at Linköping University, designed to enable efficient ticket management in a social student environment. VentMee also strives to make social interactions easier and bring people closer together. How can VentMee be developed to become the platform everyone wants but does not yet exist? Within this challenge, you get the chance to work closely with a student-driven startup and with the opportunity to influence the development process of this product. “The sky is the limit.”

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How can we make companies more sustainable by using Tiklo?

Decent work and economic growth
Sustainable cities and communities

Tiklo is a (technological) tool for smart operations that businesses can use to improve their operational efficiency, but it can also be used in many other ways. Redapes, the StartUp company behind Tiklo, now wants to gain knowledge of how Tiklo can be used to further the sustainable impact for companies’ internal organizational purposes, but also for external perspectives (social, economic, and ecological). Redapes is also looking to expand the areas of use and adapt to already existing operations. Do you want to help?

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A tool that facilitates Reijmyre Glasworks' modernisation and digitisation

Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Reijmyre Glassworks, a company founded in 1810, produce high-quality crystal glassware. The products are still handmade in the same place in Rejmyre, Sweden. The company is modernising and digitising its operation to increase production efficiency while adapting to new market conditions and targeting new customers. At the same time, the company need to attract, educate and take care of the next generation of glassblowers to preserve the local traditional craft of glass manufacturing. Reijmyre Glassworks is now looking for a tool to connect its present business systems and operational routines to facilitate communication between different teams within the company.

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The city centre of the future

Sustainable cities and communities

Linköping City Samverkan AB shall strengthen Linköping city’s position against other cities, external shopping and be a united force to boost the appeal of the city centre and support commercial, social and cultural growth. As Linköping grows and conditions of the surrounding environment change, the city centre, with its density and identity, needs to continue to develop. Linköping City Samverkans’ face the challenge of creating a lively city centre based on an innovative citizen dialogue for gathering insights. How do they develop a more lively and attractive city centre where everyone feels included? 

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Use Staga’s machine park to find new markets and products

Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Responsible consumption and production

Staga Sweden is a company based in Linköping that works with product development and manufacturing. By using the existing machine park, Staga wants to find potential new markets and products that the company can grow within. You will get a "crash course" in Staga's existing material streams (e.g. non-woven, paper, plastic, rubber) as well as its various production techniques (e.g. extrusion, punching, sheeting). Help the company find an exciting solution to its challenge. Let the imagination flow.

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Prevent damage to properties due to climate change-related events

Good health and well-being
Sustainable cities and communities

How do we prevent damage from affecting properties as the temperature rises? How can we prevent floods from harming the foundation of the buildings? Länsförsäkringar Östgöta is an insurance company owned by its customers in Östergötland. The company wants help to find solutions that prevent damage to buildings and properties due to climate change-related events, such as floods and heat damage. By taking on this challenge, you will contribute to society and give individual property owners opportunities to meet the challenges ahead.

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An ethical, safe and simple way for animal breeding

Life on land

We often read about illegally imported animals with diseases and defects, and about puppy factories. The owner of Vegas skafferi wants to create a safe way for animal owners to find their pets (or other animals) a partner. Today it can be difficult to know if an animal has a chip number or any other identification paper that can secure that the animal and owner belong to each other. How can you create one safe, ethical and simple breeding system/place/way for people to find and choose partners for their animals and - at the same time - make sure it has economic viability?

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Which applications can be used with Ligna's sustainable energy storage?

Affordable and clean energy
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Sustainable cities and communities

Ligna Energy is a green tech startup company which is developing groundbreaking energy storage technology and products. This in order to meet the need for a shift toward sustainable and fossil-free energy sources. Ligna's technology is made from forest residues, carbon and organic polymers in combination with a water-based electrolyte. The company is currently focusing on their S-power product and wants help to explore applications and develop an interesting solution for its sustainable energy storage. 

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Smart ways of onboarding consultants

Decent work and economic growth
Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Coming as a new contractor to a relatively large workplace is a challenge. There is a lot of information to absorb and relate to, not least with a bearing on security but also to understand organization, interfaces etc. Siemens wants to find tools that make it easier for both new employees and new consultants to quickly and easily understand the business; how the company works organizationally, its departments, its security routines etc.

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Designing Green Electronics for a Better Planet

Affordable and clean energy
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Sustainable cities and communities
Responsible consumption and production
Climate action

Norrköping Science Park needs help to produce some demonstrators that will initially be used as part of an exhibition during the first quarter of 2023 at Arbetets Museum. The theme is green electronics with a focus on energy and climate. The challenge is multifaceted and includes various forms of design (e.g., graphical, physical, interaction and electronics), societal aspects, physical construction, electronic parts and more.

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What does the future of projects look like?

Good health and well-being
Gender equality
Decent work and economic growth
Responsible consumption and production

Digitization is a growing area with a great demand for skills and a high tempo, with parallel projects and cross-functional teams. Many new people are being recruited to this area, and although there is often a goal of gender equality in companies, the majority of them are male-dominated. The consulting business often means working in several projects at the same time, with several parameters determining how successful a project is, both regarding workload, cost and from an environmental perspective. As part of Combitech's work, the company want to improve how to plan their projects, to ensure that what they do follows the Combitech vision for sustainability.

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Enable private forest owners to increase their profitability

Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Climate action
Life on land

Södra is Sweden’s largest forest-owner association with 52,000 forest owners as its members. Södra's mission is to promote the profitability of their forest estates and to secure markets for their forest raw material. This mission also includes promoting high-yield and valuable forest production combined with nature conservation and cultural considerations and monitoring and promoting its members’ business policy interests, particularly regarding property ownership rights. This challenge will focus on the core of Södra's mission; to help the private forester owners in southern Sweden to expand their profitability.

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A sustainable healthcare centre on Costa del Sol

Good health and well-being
Sustainable cities and communities

The temporary employment agency Idoc, based in Norrköping, was founded and run by their healthcare staff. The company wants to start a healthcare business on the Costa del Sol in Spain, to meet the growing need for healthcare among tourists and senior Scandinavian citizens who live in the country for the whole or part of the year. Idoc has a strong customer focus. Idoc also focuses on environmental issues, which must be integrated into the business. What does a sustainable healthcare centre of the future look like? 

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Ideas and solutions for security, equality and community

No poverty
Quality education
Gender equality
Reduced inequalities

Sibship has - together with several other actors - implemented various projects that improve women's living conditions and that create a more sustainable world. What the projects have in common is to raise taboo subjects in different ways and generate innovative solutions that make a big difference - for the individual as well as for society as a whole. Sibship is currently facing several exciting challenges, which all raise taboo topics and create value. What challenge would you like to take on? Help the company find solutions that promote security, equality and community for people in Sweden and worldwide. The sky is the limit.

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