Featuring a design challenge for a digital product for advancing physical health, this Short Advanced Programme (SAP) brings together engineering and design students to improve people’s lives. The programme invites students to explore the possibilities of digital technology to advance physical health.
The participating students learn how to apply design thinking in digital product development and how to run an innovation process in an international multidisciplinary team. The students gain knowledge of the specific technology to be used in the design challenge and learn critical elements in the nexus of technology and design.
The students work in teams coached by teachers specialized in digital technologies, design, and health application. The teams are built on students’ strengths and complementary skills sets.
The programme nudges students to move beyond their comfort zones, find a common language with others looking at the issue from a different perspective, and work together to build a solution to the design challenge.
In 2022, the SAP will tackle the challenge to advance the physical health of students. In the coming years, the SAP will feature different design challenges for a digital product. The exact challenge topic will be published at the beginning of the first mobility week.
The programme consists of two mobility weeks (Finland, Portugal) and an online period with teamwork.
