The Geospatial Challenge Camp is a new skills development and innovation service of Geoportti Research Infrastructure and Location Innovation Hub (LIH) , which is one of the European Digital Innovation Hubs. The Geospatial Challenge Camp is a 10-week long challenge-based course (5 ECTS) that aims to provide participants a chance to tackle relevant real-world challenges in cross-disciplinary teams. The course will be organized for the first time during fall 2023 at Aalto University. The participants are doctoral and post-doctoral researchers plus master students from Finnish universities and research organizations. They will work together in multidisciplinary teams and collaborate with mentors and stakeholders.
The course aims to identify and analyze complex location and time-related societal problems that requires the designing and building of digital impact-driven solutions, scientists from various disciplines will work together on real-world sustainable solutions. Participants will benefit their professional growth regarding the use of data, technology, and application innovations stemming from the Geoportti project.
The challenges will be posed by societal actors, data providers, companies, NGOs and innovation community actors and they will offer to Researchers the chance to expand their data science solutions into new operative solutions and make a broader societal impact in Finland and beyond.
