Biobased Battle 2024
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HAN is organizing the Biobased Battle from March 18 to 21. In multidisciplinary groups, students from Finland and the Netherlands work together (online) to find the best sustainable solution for a workfield challenge!
The battle helps students to become acquainted with the challenges and work processes that take place in the work field. Because they work on a challenge from the professional field and receive workshops on how to effectively go through the solution process, they are being prepared to step into the work field as a professional!
Students
- Each group of students will work four half days from defining the problem/challenge for creating a solution.
- The students will work (online) in a multidisciplinary group of +/- 8 international students from different locations in the Netherlands and Finland.
- The students will work on a challenge from the working field.
- The students will work under guidance of teachers from Finland and the Netherlands.
- The students will get the change to network, learn more about different work ethics and cultures in Finland and the Netherlands.
- The students will get different (online) workshops.
- Workshop topics: Working with different work ethics, effective brainstorm sessions for winning ideas, design a concept for your audience and create a killer pitch!
After signing up for the Battle, the student get assigned to a challenge and a group. This will be announced on this website in February 2024.
Time schedule
Monday 18 March
Finland | Netherlands | Activity |
13:30 - 14:00 | 12:30 - 13:00 | Opening and explanation of the Biobased Battle |
14:00 - 14:15 | 13:00 - 13:15 | Break |
14:15 - 14:45 | 13:15 - 13:45 | Definition of the groups, meet & greet project group (including intercultural differences) |
14:45 - 15:30 | 13:45 - 14:30 | Introduction of each challenge |
15:30 - 16:00 | 14:30 - 15:00 | Workshop: How to brainstorm and prioritize |
16:00 - 16:30 | 15:00 - 15:30 | Discussing the assignment and brainstorming to form 20 ideas and short research moment and Q&A |
16:30 - 17:05 | 15:30 - 16:05 | Prioritizing ideas (from 20 to 3 ideas) discuss selection with tutor |
17:05 - 17:15 | 16:05 - 16:15 | Wrap up / Closing |
Tuesday 19 March
Finland | Netherlands | Activity |
13:30 - 13:40 | 12:30 - 12:40 | Kick-off |
13:40 - 15:00 | 12:40 - 14:00 | Desk research on 3 ideas (technical, financial, marketing) |
15:00 - 15:10 | 14:00 - 14:10 | Break |
15:10 - 15:30 | 14:10 - 14:30 | Workshop: How to set up MCA |
15:30 - 16:00 | 14:30 - 15:00 | Set up MCA to score 3 ideas and discuss MCA |
16:00 - 16:30 | 15:00 - 15:30 | Score MCA and choose best idea based on outcome MCA |
16:30 - 16:40 | 15:30 - 15:40 | Wrap-up / Closing |
Wednesday 20 March
Finland | Netherlands | Activity |
13:30 - 14:00 | 12:30 - 13:00 | Workshop: How to build a winning pitch |
14:00 - 14:10 | 13:00 - 13:10 | Kick-off |
14:10 - 15:00 | 13:10 - 14:00 | Detailing of best idea (technical, financial, marketing) |
15:00 - 15:20 | 14:00 - 14:20 | Break |
15:20 - 16:30 | 14:20 - 15:30 | Further detailing of best idea and start pitch presentation |
16:30 - 16:40 | 15:30 - 15:40 | Wrap-up / Closing |
Thursday 21 March
Finland | Netherlands | Activity |
13:30 - 13:40 | 12:30 - 12:40 | Kick-off |
13:40 - 15:00 | 12:40 - 14:00 | Work on pitch presentations |
15:00 - 15:40 | 14:00 - 14:40 | Pitch of the groups before jury (every challenge individually) |
15:40 - 15:50 | 14:40 - 14:50 | Short break |
15:50 - 16:20 | 14:50 - 15:20 | Pitch of the groups, continued |
16:20 - 16:40 | 15:20 - 15:40 | Break and define results (all the jury) |
16:40 - 17:00 | 15:40 - 16:00 | Award ceremony (all groups together) |
Example challenges of previous years
- Innovative solutions for incorporating orange peel waste streams into a biobased economy’ - Partner company Peel pioneers
- Developing innovative ideas for reusing municipal and industrial residual waste streams