What is The Innovation Camp?
The Innovation Camp is a unique summer course experience taking place in a professional sound tech & design environment. Bang & Olufsen, Harman-Samsung and Sound Hub Denmark open their doors and invite students to participate in a live, real-world innovation process with AU, DTU, SDU and Struer Statsgymnasium in Struer - The City of Sound.
The course is designed as a multidisciplinary collaboration project between students recruited from universities across Denmark. Professors and sound tech professionals from Bang & Olufsen, Harman-Samsung and Sound Hub Denmark facilitate the course.
Uddannelsesinititativet i Struer - The Silicon Valley of Sound is coordinating the event, which, among other camps and courses, is part of the ambition to establish a Residential College for sound in Struer.
The course allows you to...
- Expand your professional network and competencies
- Try concept development in practice
- Work in small, multidisciplinary teams
All students bring different academic skill sets and methodologies to the table – all of which are crucial for the industry’s ability to create innovative and sustainable solutions for the future.
On the first day of the course, you and your team will be presented with this year’s brief, presenting you with an audio-themed design and development challenge. Over three weeks, the course will take you through all the steps of an intense innovation process, from the initial ideation and cross-disciplinary concept development over end-user and feasibility considerations, as well as sustainability and Life Cycle Assessment, to the final presentation of a working prototype, which must be presented to a board at the end of the course.
The course will teach you to...
- Cooperate in multidisciplinary team activities
- Propose and justify the value of new innovative technical solutions
- Conduct disciplinary analysis of a real-life industrial problem
- Present disciplinary research to stakeholders with different disciplinary backgrounds
The partners behind the Innovation Camp
The Innovation Camp is organised in collaboration between several Danish universities, and local companies and stakeholders in Struer.
