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WHAT

Students Hack Folkemødet

Students Hack Folkemødet is a facilitated innovation process powered by DTU Skylab with The Confederation of Danish Industry, Foreningen Folkemødet, Globalt Fokus and partners.

University students of diverse disciplines drive the development of new solutions by working with concrete sustainability challenges and dedicated partners through their courses and during a facilitated acceleration program coupled to the annual Democracy Festival ‘Folkemødet’ each June.

In 2019 DTU Skylab, The Confederation of Danish Industry, Globalt Fokus and Foreningen Folkemødet, piloted the initiative with support from Tuborg Foundation.

HOW

The Process

During 5 month, defined challenges are translated into concrete prototypes and tested solutions targeting one or several of the SDGs – powered by university student groups.

Industry, public sector and civil society representatives are on-boarded annually to bring forward a sustainability challenge. Each challenge is matched with two students groups of diverse relevant academic disciplines, recruited to bring their ideas and perspectives during a course/bachelor project/thesis with sparring from partners and academic supervisors. Solutions are shared online and pitched during the Kick-off Event, preparing students and partners for the program during Folkemødet.

At Folkemødet, student groups test, explore and co-create to further adapt their solutions through a combination of facilitated and tailored sprint sessions, official events and individual activities. Festival participants and partners are invited to the Finals where all solutions are pitched to a panel of agenda-setting profiles with the opportunity to be awarded acceleration support. Partners encourage and offer support to accelerate and further incubate solutions through i.e. student entrepreneurship, research, mentoring or continued collaboration with the challenge partners.

WHY

The initiative's ambitions

Combining course collaboration across universities with a facilitated living laboratory at Folkemødet has proven impactful and a unique way to engage the festival, bring partners together, drive new innovation solutions beyond short case-competitions, and as a learning environment for students. Students Hack Folkemødet exist to:

Actively engage university students in Democracy Festivals, like Folkemødet
Bringing an international voice and perspective, and news ways of engagement, to Folkemødet
Contributing with sustainable ideas to the festivals
Catalyzing new ways for industry, public sector, civil society and academia to work together on sustainable solutions
Offer new types of learning environments for students, across disciplines, on innovation, industry collaboration and sustainability.
Take innovation and disruption outside the industry and public sector to tackle their challenges in new ways.

WHEN

Program

2020

2019

2020

COVID-19 have unfortunately lead to the cancellation of Folkemødet 2020. While 10 student groups are currently busy working on the 5 sustainability challenges, we unfortunately will not be accelerating and pitching their solutions in Bornholm this June.

Partners are therefore working towards alternative ways to showcase and support the projects from June onwards, as well as planning for an exciting and ambitious program for Folkemødet 2021!

2019

Thursday 13 June

13:00 – 14:00: Verdensmål 12 – hvad betyder dit kaffevalg.
Verdensmålene LiVE, Verdensmålenes Plads (A1)

Test of prototype at SDG12 live installation with visitors.
Meet Team #1 Kaffetræet

17:00 – 18:00: Verdensmålsminigolf. Sandvig Minigolf

Teams pitch their solutions at hole ‘SDG 12’ to politicians and leaders from NGO and industry who will play 17 holes of mini golf.
Meet Team #5 Another View & #7 The Data Hat

Friday 14 June

13:30 – 16:00: Pop-up station: Studerende Hacker Folkemødet – kom og samskab nye løsninger.

Engineer the future tent (Cirkuspladsen C21)

Visitors invited to give feedback and co-create their solutions
Meet Team #3 SHYNE, #5 Another View, #6 Green Dream Consulting, #8 United Colors

15:30 – 18:00: Pop-up: Student Hack om bæredygtighed og SDG.

DI’s Truck, Allinge Harbour (Fremstillingsindustrien J8)

Visitors invited to give feedback and co-create their solutions
Meet Team #1 Kaffetræet, #2 CBSxPeter Larsen Kaffe, #3 SHYNE, #4 Circulars

Saturday 15 June

11:30 – 13:00 Pop-up station: Studerende Hacker Folkemødet – kom og samskab nye løsninger.

Engineer the future tent (Cirkuspladsen C21)

Visitors invited to give feedback and co-create their solutions
Meet Team #1 Kaffetræet, #2 CBSxPeter Larsen Kaffe, #6 Green Dream Consulting, #8 United Colors

16:30 – 17:30: Students Hack Folkemødet – Final Pitch & Panel.

Verdensmålenes Telt (A40)

Teams pitch their sustainable solutions developed during Folkemødet to the panel:

Pelle Pedersen, Investor and member of the 2030-panel LinkedIn
Lars Jannick Johansen, Founder and Managing Partner, Den Sociale Kapitalfond LinkedIn
Thomas Bustrup, COO, The Confederation of Danish Industry (DI) LinkedIn
Karin Thuesen Pedersen, Urban Development Director, COWI LinkedIn

17:30 – 18:30: Solution exposition and feedback from visitors.
Verdensmålenes Plads (A1)

Interact and give feedback to the teams after their pitch on stage.
Experience how ARKEN has taken a whole new take on the 17 SDGs with the artist Kristoffer Ørum

WHO