Stay Relevant, Autumn 2024
STAY RELEVANT
Turn your academic skills into strategic business development and help companies to remain relevant to customers and business partners
- A collaboration between VIA University College, Herning Kommune, Erhvervsrådet Herning og Ikast-Brande & Aarhus Universitet (BSS Herning & Arts)
Using your academic expertise in practice
You can be one of the many students who will take part in Stay Relevant 2024. In partnership with fellow students, you will be using your academic expertise to find solutions to challenges facing companies.
Reasons for joining Stay Relevant 2024:
- It will give you the chance to develop and enhance skills in relation to working with design processes
- You’ll get the chance to pitch great ideas and show potential employers what you can do
- It’s a good platform for using your theoretical knowledge to solve practical problems
- You’ll learn more about how business works and gain insight into the thinking behind strategic design
- It will look good on your curriculum vitae
Programme
October 7th 2024
| 15.00-16.30 | Design Thinking | Auditorium 2, Tåsingegade |
October 8th 2024
| 7.30 | Departure by bus to Herning | From: To: | |
| 9.00-9.30 | Welcome Mayor Dorte West. Bread and coffee/tea, motivational speech and presentation of the cases / Lasse Chor | Atrium i INNO | |
| 9.30-10.00 | About Herning: Lajla Johansen, consultant, By, Erhverv og Kultur, Herning Municipality | Atrium i INNO | |
| 10.00-10.30 | Companies present cases. This takes place in six different rooms - Time for questions afterwards | 3042 - AU (Herningcenteret) 2002 - AU (Bubbles) 209 - AU (Suprejs) Utzon L21 - INNO (Midt ApS / The white box) Angligården L106 - INNO (Udd. by Herning) På Heden L32 - INNO (Vildbjerg Cup) | |
| 10.30-12.15 | Process regarding the methods behind Design Thinking | 3042 - AU 2002 - AU 209 - AU AU Kantine - AU Utzon L21 - INNO På Heden L32 - INNO Heart L25 - INNO Angligården L106 - INNO Siemens L143 - INNO Skulpturp. 1 L111 - INNO Skulpturp. 3 L113 - INNO Other rooms may be used as well | |
| 12.30-13.00 | Lunch | AU Kantine | |
| 13.00-16.00 | Case work - Including coffee and cake | 3032 - AU 3034 - AU 3038 - AU 2045 - AU 2047 - AU 2049 - AU 2056 - AU 2058 - AU 2123 - AU 2125 - AU 2127 - AU 2130 - AU 2132 - AU Business Factory mødelokale 1 - AU Business Factory mødelokale 2 - AU 209 - AU Skulpturp. 1 L111 - INNO Skulpturp. 3 L113 - INNO L13 - INNO Other rooms may be used as well | |
| 16.00-17.00 | Six simultaneous pitching rounds - There will be chosen a finalist from each round | 2053 - AU (Herningcenteret) 2002 - AU (Bubbles) 2131 - AU (Suprejs) Utzon L21 - INNO (Midt ApS / The white box) Angliagården L 106 INNO (Udd. by Herning) På Heden L32 - INNO (Vildbjerg Cup) | |
| 17.00-17.45 | Dinner and networking | AU Kantine | |
| 17.45-18.00 | Welcome back | AU Kantine | |
| 18.00-18.30 | The six finalists pitch in a plenary session - Each pitch lasts 4 minuttes | AU Kantine | |
| 18.30-19.00 | Voting by the audience and awards ceremony | AU Kantine | |
| 19.00 | The event is over and the bus drives back to Aarhus | From: Birk Centerpark 40, 7400 Birk To: | |
Cases
Each group will work with one of the following cases
The groups will be assigned a case before the case competition begins. Please see the group overview.
Groups
Note that you have both a group number and a family group number
Family group 1
Family group 2
Family group 3
Family group 4
Family group 5
Family group 6
Family group 7
Family group 8
Family group 9
Family group 10
Family group 11
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Design mentor
![[Translate to English:] Foto Designmentor Lasse Chor](/fileadmin/_processed_/a/0/csm_lc_e768217b70.png "[Translate to English:] Designmentor Lasse Chor")
Lasse Chor
Lasse Chor is a Danish entrepreneur who started his first company at the age of 13. Since he has been strongly involved in the Danish and global entrepreneurship ecosystem. Through his current company Happy42 Lasse is currently mentor for a number of startups around the world, and advisor to a handful of large corporations including some Fortune 500 companies. Lately Lasse has additionally turned his attention to investments and he is currently active as a private angel investor.
Bonus info: Lasse’s mom thinks he is the best son in the world
Judges
Jeanette Ejsing Møberg, Associate Professor, Institut for Forretningsudvikling og Teknologi
Morten Stamm Mikkelsen, Business and Education Manager, Herning Kommune
Lasse Chor, Happy 42
Learning objectives
Participation in the Stay Relevant Case Competition 2024 will enable students to:
Knowledge
- Demonstrate understanding of the ways in which theoretical knowledge from their individual degree programmes can be communicated and used in relation to a relevant labour market
Skills
- Give presentations thorough the method of pitching
- Independently communicate the relevance of academic theories and methods in relation to the labour market
- Use their own academic expertise to solve problems which are relevant to the labour market
Competences
- Independently adapt their academic skills for use in society as a whole
- Take part in development work in a constructive manner
Competition prizes
A winner of each of the six pitching rounds
A First Prize winner
A winner of the Audience Award
Rules
The companies taking part have the right of ownership of all rights, inventions, production methods and other technical advances arising in connection with the case competition. The transfer of rights to the companies taking part occurs automatically and continuously as these rights arise.
The students are entitled to use products and material deriving from the case competition in contexts relating to exams and teaching at Aarhus University. The students are entitled to present their results of the case competition (also when applying for jobs) to the extent that this does not lead to the subsequent use of such results in breach of the rights that have been transferred to the company concerned. Students may only use products and material arising from the case competition in other contexts subject to a separate written agreement with the company concerned.
Inspiration
Check out the websites below for inspiration for your project work.
You can e.g. read about different approaches and methods for project work as a whole and the individual elements of the case.
In addition, you can find tips and tricks for writing and executing a good pitch, which can help you to communicate your solutions to the judges in the most optimal way.
