Why take openlab’s Master course?
Our Master’s course Innovations for Societal Challenges (15 or 7,5 Credits) is an interdisciplinary project course based on challenge driven innovation. You will learn and apply Design Thinking in order to develop solutions and innovations to a given societal challenge, on behalf of an external public sector client. You will work in teams with students from different universities, disciplines and backgrounds.
The course is provided by Openlab’s four partner universities Stockholm University, Karolinska Institutet, Södertörn University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, in collaboration, with challenges from the City of Stockholm and Region Stockholm. Openlab’s master’s course also goes by the name “Challenges for emerging cities”.
Former Master’s Course student
We provide a hands-on course that teaches design methods, project management and teamwork skills that will be valuable for your future work or academic studies. All this while you create solutions with the potential drive societal development in the fields of sustainable urban development, health, education and the ageing population.
Learning goals:
- Learn and apply design methods and tools (Design Thinking) to create innovative solutions to societal challenges
- Learn and apply project management methods and tools (SCRUM) to an innovation project
- Solve challenges on behalf of an external public sector client
- Analyse complex societal challenges from an interdisciplinary and needs-based perspective
- Develop skills for working in interdisciplinary, international teams
- Develop skills for presenting an innovation or concept, verbally, visually and in text, such as sketches, prototypes, pitches, presentations and reports
- Develop a creative, visual, problem-solving mindset towards approaching challenges
- Develop and evaluate ideas for innovations with the potential to create lasting benefits and value or a specific target group
Working with real life challenges
The challenges in the course are submitted by the City of Stockholm and Region Stockholm and origins from the four main areas: sustainable urban development, future healthcare, education and the ageing population.
Sustainable urban development
Ageing population
Health
Education
Application
Submit your application to one the the participating universities: KTH, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm University or Södertörn University (see application details). For general questions about the course contact Mats Danielson.
Schedule
Course days: Tuesdays and Thursdays
Important dates, autumn semester 2024:
- Course start, September 3rd
- Challenge presentations, September 12th
- Halftime presentations, October 31st
- Final presentations, January 16th
Course details
Start period: Period 1
Level: Master
Study pace: 50 %
Daytime: Tuesdays and Thursdays
Language: English
Qualifications: 180 credits
Location: Openlab, Stockholm (Valhallavägen 79, 3rd floor)
Karolinska Institutet
Course names: Innovations for Emerging Cities: Openlab Course Package (15 credits)
Innovations for Emerging Cities: Openlab Multidisciplinary Project Course (7,5 credits)
More information and course syllabus
Contact: Sofia Vikström, sofia.vikstrom@ki.se
Available as 7,5 credits (period 1 or 2) or 15 credits (both periods 1 and 2, course package)
Södertörn University
Course name: Challenges for Emerging Cities: Openlab Multidisciplinary Project Course
More information
Contact: Martin Jonsson, martin.jonsson@sh.se
Available as 15 credits.
KTH, ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Course names:
MF2065 Innovations for the Emerging City, Openlab Multidisciplinary Project Course 15.0 credits
MF2080 Challenges for the Emerging City, Interdiciplinary Project Course A:1 (OpenLab Project Course) 7.5 credits
Contact: Jens Hemphälä, hemphala@kth.se
Available as 7,5 or 15 credits.
KTH – Register via your study advisor
STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY
Course name: Innovations for Societal Challenges: Multidisciplinary Project Course
Course syllabus
SU study counsellors: Central / local
Contact: Mats Danielson, mats.danielson@su.se
Available as 15 credits.
