1st Innovation Challenge Lausitz

1. What is the Innovation Challenge?

The Innovation Challenge is a 2.5-day event in which heterogeneous groups develop prototypical solutions for specific or self-chosen problems from companies, municipalities and associations in the Görlitz district. The teams are guided and supported by coaches and mentors.

2. Who should attend?

• Employees of regional institutions in all sectors who want to get to know new methods, solve current hurdles and escape from everyday thought patterns
• Developers and computer scientists who want to show what they can do and get in direct contact with potential clients.
• Students, pupils and young professionals

3. Why participate?

The participants develop solutions to actual, current problems or challenges outside of their normal structures. For this purpose, the companies, associations and municipalities send employees and volunteers to take part in the event. The participants receive an application-oriented, modern method input. The solution is found in heterogeneous teams and free from external specifications. Our coaches and mentors support the teams on their way.

The participants bring the problem solving and their experiences back into their organisation.

The participants become carriers of innovation culture in their sphere of activity. The mixing of the teams gives all participants new perspectives. The event serves, among other things, to retain, promote and motivate staff.

There is enough space for networking. In addition, the exchange on trends and challenges of the different industries is promoted.

Career starters, pupils and students come into direct contact with potential employers.

 

 4. How exactly does this work?

• Thursday, April 27th (Start 6 p.m. | open end)

Kick-off event with keynotes

Main goal: Commitment to the Innovation Challenge format and creative work in interdisciplinary teams, team building

• Friday, April 28th (Start 9:45 a.m. | open end)
  

working day

Focus: understanding of the problem, personas, possible solutions

• Saturday, April 29th (Start 9:45 a.m. | End 6 p.m.)
  

Main goal: prototyping, finalization, pitch training

jury pitch

 

5. Which challenges are processed:

• Weißwasser and Lausitzer Foxes: How can a long-term citizen participation process for the project of an international sports academy in Weißwasser look like so that the citizens of the municipality and neighboring communities see it as an opportunity. 
• Water rescue service Boxberg: How can the water rescue service Boxberg manage to get more adult people from the region around the Bärwalder See to volunteer as lifeguards in the association? 
• Village community Lodenau: How can a cross-generational and functional meeting place in Lodenau for the community and the village community in the already available building look like? 
• Junge Lausitz: How can you motivate young people to get involved in society and politics, for example in local and city councils? 
• UNU FLORES: How can you bring the innovative concept of vertical gardening in rural areas closer to the stereotype of the "bourgeois allotment gardener"? 
• ENO (SST Education): Nobody uses thick tomes like an atlas anymore, right? How can the offers of the INSIDER Atlas career orientation be prepared in such a way that generation ɑ likes to deal with them?
• Zukunftsagentur: What possibilities are there to use the villages that were abandoned in the course of coal mining, and which are now remaining, for the long-term development of the region? 

 

6. Summary - What can you expect from the Innovation Challenge

• coaching of startup methodologies,
• learning application-oriented innovation techniques,
• Exchange and networking on innovation topics, trends and challenges,
• networking
• Solution of real problems from companies, associations and municipalities,
• Abundant food and
• participant documents.