| Name of activity/title | Innovation challenges in education |
| Domain/action | Domain 4: Enhancing the quality of innovation and entrepreneurial education Actions: – Innovation and entrepreneurial curricula – Training programs and mentoring schemes |
| Goal of activity/short summary | Students work with an innovation project connected with a challenge stated by a food sector enterprise |
| Type of stakeholders involved | Students, enterprises, university |
| Description how conducted | An innovation project is integrated into specific courses. Enterprises are contacted to provide a reality-based innovation challenge for the students to work with in a larger project. The process includes supervision by a firm representative and comprises the whole innovation process from searching opportunities-selecting-implementing and capturing value. |
| Resources required (if relevant) | Contacts with enterprises that are willing to contribute their time, course time |
| Lessons learned/success factors | The enterprises need to give a challenge that is not too vague. Also, the representatives from the firms need to be available at least a couple of occassions to make the task possible to solve for the students. Both firms and students have appreciated the interaction and mutual learning that has evolved from the collaborations. The “real life” setting inspirers students to make a really good work. |
| Time period | From 2019 ongoing |
| Link (if relevant) | Podcast (only in Swedish): SLU Future Food 21. Om innovation och utbildning som game changer för hållbar livsmedelsproduktion |
| Partner who submitted the practice | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
| Key words | Teaching innovation and entrepreneurship, industry collaboration, problem based learning |
