Biobased Battle 2024
HAN is organizing the Biobased Battle from March 18 to 21. In multidisciplinary groups, students from Finland and the Netherlands work together (online) to find the best sustainable solution for a workfield challenge!
The battle helps students to become acquainted with the challenges and work processes that take place in the work field. Because they work on a challenge from the professional field and receive workshops on how to effectively go through the solution process, they are being prepared to step into the work field as a professional!
Students
- Each group of students will work four half days from defining the problem/challenge for creating a solution.
- The students will work (online) in a multidisciplinary group of +/- 8 international students from different locations in the Netherlands and Finland.
- The students will work on a challenge from the working field.
- The students will work under guidance of teachers from Finland and the Netherlands.
- The students will get the change to network, learn more about different work ethics and cultures in Finland and the Netherlands.
- The students will get different (online) workshops.
- Workshop topics: Working with different work ethics, effective brainstorm sessions for winning ideas, design a concept for your audience and create a killer pitch!
After signing up for the Battle, the student get assigned to a challenge and a group. This will be announced on this website in February 2024.
Time schedule
Monday 18 March
| Finland | Netherlands | Activity |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | 12:30 - 13:00 | Opening and explanation of the Biobased Battle |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | 13:00 - 13:15 | Break |
| 14:15 - 14:45 | 13:15 - 13:45 | Definition of the groups, meet & greet project group (including intercultural differences) |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | 13:45 - 14:30 | Introduction of each challenge |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | 14:30 - 15:00 | Workshop: How to brainstorm and prioritize |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | 15:00 - 15:30 | Discussing the assignment and brainstorming to form 20 ideas and short research moment and Q&A |
| 16:30 - 17:05 | 15:30 - 16:05 | Prioritizing ideas (from 20 to 3 ideas) discuss selection with tutor |
| 17:05 - 17:15 | 16:05 - 16:15 | Wrap up / Closing |
Tuesday 19 March
| Finland | Netherlands | Activity |
| 13:30 - 13:40 | 12:30 - 12:40 | Kick-off |
| 13:40 - 15:00 | 12:40 - 14:00 | Desk research on 3 ideas (technical, financial, marketing) |
| 15:00 - 15:10 | 14:00 - 14:10 | Break |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | 14:10 - 14:30 | Workshop: How to set up MCA |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | 14:30 - 15:00 | Set up MCA to score 3 ideas and discuss MCA |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | 15:00 - 15:30 | Score MCA and choose best idea based on outcome MCA |
| 16:30 - 16:40 | 15:30 - 15:40 | Wrap-up / Closing |
Wednesday 20 March
| Finland | Netherlands | Activity |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | 12:30 - 13:00 | Workshop: How to build a winning pitch |
| 14:00 - 14:10 | 13:00 - 13:10 | Kick-off |
| 14:10 - 15:00 | 13:10 - 14:00 | Detailing of best idea (technical, financial, marketing) |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | 14:00 - 14:20 | Break |
| 15:20 - 16:30 | 14:20 - 15:30 | Further detailing of best idea and start pitch presentation |
| 16:30 - 16:40 | 15:30 - 15:40 | Wrap-up / Closing |
Thursday 21 March
| Finland | Netherlands | Activity |
| 13:30 - 13:40 | 12:30 - 12:40 | Kick-off |
| 13:40 - 15:00 | 12:40 - 14:00 | Work on pitch presentations |
| 15:00 - 15:40 | 14:00 - 14:40 | Pitch of the groups before jury (every challenge individually) |
| 15:40 - 15:50 | 14:40 - 14:50 | Short break |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | 14:50 - 15:20 | Pitch of the groups, continued |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | 15:20 - 15:40 | Break and define results (all the jury) |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | 15:40 - 16:00 | Award ceremony (all groups together) |
Example challenges of previous years
- Innovative solutions for incorporating orange peel waste streams into a biobased economy’ - Partner company Peel pioneers
- Developing innovative ideas for reusing municipal and industrial residual waste streams