Der Cross Innovation Hub wird mit Mitteln aus dem Europäischen Fonds für regionale Entwicklung (EFRE) co-finanziert.

Cross Innovation Lab

Students meet practice-based projects, and companies meet young talents. In the Cross Innovation Class students are given the opportunity to design innovative prototypes for companies over the course of one semester.

What is the Cross Innovation Class?

Every degree programme needs practical experience. In the Cross Innovation Class, students from different disciplines meet Hamburg-based companies. In mixed teams, you spend a semester developing innovative prototypes for the circular city of tomorrow. The benefit? Students get to know all phases of product development and take on different user perspectives. Companies receive external project management from us and work exclusively with young professionals. The methods used include design thinking.

Who is the format aimed at?

Companies and public institutions that would like to implement a project with young professionals. These are students of IT engineering, design, environmental sciences, urban planning, smart technology and computer science at the universities of Applied Sciences Wedel, Akademie Mode & Design (AMD), HafenCity University (HCU) and Leuphana University Lüneburg.

The Class at a glance

Deliverables

interdisciplinary project work ✓
Process innovation ✓
Service innovation ✓
Digital transformation ✓
Business model ✓
Product innovation ✓

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Innovation for organisations

Partner für die Class werden

Fit für den Berufseinstieg und die digitale Arbeitswelt. Die Cross Innovation Class bietet ein Semester Praxiserfahrung durch die Projektarbeit in Unternehmen.
Interessiert als Unternehmen für Nachwuchsförderung dabei zu sein?

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Contact

Patrick Scheckelhoff

Programmmanager Cross Innovation Hub

T040 2372435-86

The process in detail

Kick-off & Future Boost↓

In a two-day kick-off, the students from the different universities get to know each other and the companies. There is an introduction to the challenges of the companies. Expectations and organisational matters are clarified. On the following day, the students look into the future of the circular city with the help of strategic foresight. Through various impulse lectures and guided workshops, the topic of Circular City & Circular Economy will be approached.

Field research↓

In a half-day field research, the companies are visited on site to better understand the challenge and context.

Define & Ideation↓

After the field research, the final challenges are defined and transformed into initial idea approaches with the help of relevant design thinking methods.

Phase I↓

This is followed by a free working phase of several weeks, during which the students refine and further elaborate their ideas.

Feedback Session I↓

Students receive feedback on their idea concepts and learn methods for user testing.

Phase II↓

This is followed by a free working phase in which the students talk to potential user groups, refine the ideas with the help of feedback and translate them into concrete designs.

Feedback Session II↓

The intermediate status of the drafts is shared. The companies give feedback.

Phase III↓

The concrete, functional prototypes are worked out in the workshops of the universities.

Pitch training↓

The students receive pitch training for the final presentation of the ideas.

Public closing event↓

Finally, all ideas are presented to the public and awarded.

Cases from the Class