En innovationsmiljö på Malmö universitet
Är du nyfiken på vad som händer på Storm och hur vi arbetar? Håll dig uppdaterad genom att prenumerera på vårt nyhetsbrev. Här får du information om vad som händer, vad som har hänt och vad som kommer att hända på Storm. Du får en inblick i vår dagliga verksamhet och hur vi arbetar för att kunna erbjuder dig – som arbetar eller studerar på Malmö universitet – ett öppet klimat och verktyg där du kan utforska, utvecklas, inspireras och bygga nätverk.
Storm is here for you who work or study at Malmö University. We offer an open environment and tools for exploring, experimenting and networking. We also offer you guidance and methods about how you can get a more creative workday, workshop, presentation or meeting.
But how does it work? How can you utilize our methods and ideas? We asked our Innovation host Julia to explain how it works.
When you are planning an activity – whether it’s a workshop, conference or seminar, at Storm or elsewhere – you can always contact us for help. In a planning meeting, we discuss the goals and aims of your activity and how to reach them.
It’s often easier to figure out the best way to do something while talking it through with someone. We can help your mind take a new route and ask questions you haven’t thought about before. Storm has a variety of digital tools, workshop methods and material that we can introduce you to during the meeting.
Make a room booking at storm.mau.se/bokning or email us to book a meeting with one of the Storm team members. Planning meetings usually take around 30 minutes. No preparation is necessary, but we recommend thinking these questions through: What do we want to achieve? How much time do we have? Who is my target group?
Are you intrigued? Please contact us, and we can arrange for a planning meeting right away!
Are you interested in innovation, entrepreneurship and how you best can share your knowledge and ideas with businesses and organizations?
On September 10, Storm invites you for an introduction about some of the support and services available to you at Malmö University. The aim is to open you up to new ways of thinking, talk about how you can take your ideas further and how Malmö University can help you share your knowledge and ideas with others.
The afternoon will begin with short presentations from Storm Innovation Hub, Drivhuset and Malmö University’s business developer. Thereafter, we will discuss further in smaller groups or in one to one conversations.
The introduction will be in English but questions and thoughts can be shared and answered in Swedish.
Please let us know if you are coming. Sign up here!
Where? Storm Innovation Hub at Malmö University, Gäddan, Citadellsvägen 7
When? September 10, 15.15 – 17.00
For any questions regarding the event, please contact: helena.ondrus@mau.se
Welcome to set up office at Storm! Bring your laptop and get started on that to-do-list in a distraction-free zone.
Inspired by the concept Hoffice, the day will be split into 45-minute silent working sessions with energizing breaks in-between. At the beginning of each session, everyone tells the group what they’re going to work on, and at the end of each session we check in with each other to see what we managed to get done.
We guarantee that you will end the day having accomplished even more than you planned for – without feeling drained of energy!
For Malmö University staff and students.
Upcoming Hoffice-days:
Thursday 29/8
Thursday 26/9
Thursday 24/10 (At Niagara! NIC0541 – K3 studio)
Thursday 14/11
Thursday 12/12
The first work session starts at 09:00
but feel free to arrive and leave whenever
during the day.
More information about our Hoffice-method here!
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Den 17 september bjuder Storm återigen in alla medarbetare vid Malmö universitet till en metodbuffé – denna gång med fokus på undervisning.
Metodbuffén består av fyra 20-minuterspass där vi går igenom metoder som hjälper till att skapa bra förutsättningar för projektarbeten i undervisningen. Vi går igenom tips för grupparbeten, hur man kan skapa inkluderande stämning i olika klasser, vikten av pauser och möjligheterna med Storms lokaler. Varje pass är 15 minuter långt, följt av en 5 minuters frågestund. Vi startar morgonen 08.00 med frukost och kör sedan igång metodbuffén 08.30.
Metodbuffén hålls på svenska.
Anmäl dig här senast den 10 september!
Var: Storm, Gäddan, Citadellsvägen 7
När: 17 september, 08.00-10.00
För frågor går det bra att höra av sig till helena.ondrus@mau.se
Rested and sunkissed we are opening up our creative minds and spaces for a new semester!
With a mission to promote cross-disciplinary collaboration, innovation, and creativity we are here as a resource for everyone who works or studies at Malmö University. If you need support in realizing your idea, are thinking about hosting a workshop or if you are curious about new ways to communicate your research, get in touch with us.
Interested in booking any of our spaces here at Storm? Fill in the booking form. You can find the availability of the two rooms in our calendars.
Keep track of our upcoming events and activities by following us on Facebook or Instagram.
We’re storming out! For the next five weeks, we’re gonna try out this super popular thing called summer vacation, that everybody is talking about. Meantime the booking of Storm will be closed and our mailboxes will send you an automated reply. But don’t sweat it, we’ll be back in August. See you then!!
Happy summer everyone!
Afraid your final project will be put on a shelf to collect dust? Do you wanna take advantage of the knowledge you collected and the result you’ve presented, but don’t know how?
On June 12, Storm Innovation Hub welcomes you – who finished your final project at Malmö University during Fall 2018 or Spring 2019 – to an afternoon about how you can take your final project further.
No matter which area you’ve been working in or which form your final project has taken, there are big potentials for it to grow. Maybe you want to come in contact with potential stakeholders, find your target group, build a prototype or try your ideas on new or potential users. Maybe you want to research it further through science or maybe you don’t know what you want but are interested to learn about your possibilities. We welcome all projects, commercial or non-commercial and at your service you’ll have Storm Innovation Hub, Karriärservice, Business Developers, Drivhuset and Forskarservice.
AGENDA:
14.00 – 15.00 Information from Karriärservice, Drivhuset/Business developers and Forskarservice about which resources and support they can offer.
15.00 – 16.00 Group discussions on how you can develop your project and what you need to get started
Sign up here before June 5! Limited amount of spots.
On the theme of Sustainable Development Goal, number 13 – Climate Action Storm invites you to this springs last Movie for Change and the screening of Cowspiracy – The Sustainable Secret.
Animal agriculture is one of the leading causes of deforestation, water consumption, pollution, and it is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the whole transportation industry. It’s a primary driver of rainforest destruction, species extinction, habitat loss, topsoil erosion, ocean “dead zones,” and virtually every other environmental ill. Yet it goes on, almost entirely unchallenged.
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a feature-length environmental documentary following intrepid filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today – and investigates why the world’s leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it.
Movie for Change is a free event, where we meet to watch, discuss and reflect upon the subject of positive change.
The last Thursday of every month, between 17-20, we welcome you to a movie night about sustainable development. With specially invited guests we will thereafter address and discuss problems and opportunities for sustainable development connected to the theme of the movies.
The events are co-produced with the Department of Urban Studies, the Leadership for Sustainability master’s programme and Fenix Miljöförening.
Last week, Stormathon was arranged for the first time here at Storm. During 12 intense hours, 38 students from 27 different programs and courses, divided into 9 groups, worked together to solve a case from the City of Malmö. With the help from innovation coaches and facilitators, the students got a chance to practice their innovation and problem-solving abilities, as well as collaborating with people outside of their field. At the end of the day, they pitched their results in front of a jury and three of the teams were awarded a special prize.
“Based on a real challenge, the students can understand and learn from each other’s different perspectives, competencies, and experiences, which strengthens them for future situations in the working life”, says Karolina Rosenqvist, one of the coordinators and part of the Storm team.
For the first Stormathon, Storm teamed up with the City of Malmö who provided the students with a challenge of how to improve the maintenance of the outdoor environment in Malmö.
“This was an exciting collaboration for us. It was a way for us to get valuable input from young adults about how we can limit damage and sabotage and make the city more sustainable”, says Jenny Aurell, change leader of the project Digital Malmö.
“Through Stormathon and similar events, we can encourage new ways of working that inspire more people within the institution to collaborate internally and externally”, says Anna Bogeskär Brandt, project coordinator at the University Executive Office.
The Stormathon innovation day was a great success thanks to a great commitment from the students, the City of Malmö and specially invited guest lecturers. The winning team will now get the chance to continue developing their idea – with the help from the City of Malmö and MINC. while the second runners-up will be able to dig deeper into the innovation-practice by attending Skåne Innovation Day and Urban Innovation day.
Storm is here for you who work or study at Malmö University. Our goal is to challenge and guide employees and students towards innovative thinking, make people meet and highlight research and innovation to build upon. By arranging this kind of events where collaboration is in focus we aim to stimulate networking and knowledge transfer as well as pave the way for transboundary meetings.
Our hope is to be able to arrange more events like this, where students, teachers, researchers, and other employees can collaborate multidisciplinary and with external actors. At Storm, we see great potential in the concept and think that a next step could be to collaborate across faculty and departmental boundaries where students in specially selected programs with contact points in professional life could be targeted.
“One of Storm’s strengths is that we have a broad network within the university, both on the education side and the research side. It is not certain that a research group that works with a particular issue knows what other research groups do in closely related areas. Storm could help with identifying collaborative opportunities and we can be used as a resource to establish collaboration between research groups and educational programs”, says Karolina Rosenqvist.
But it’s not just about networking and collaboration. It’s also about exploring new methods and tools for innovation and problem-solving.
At Storm, we believe in learning by doing. Compressing the innovation process to 12 hours is a challenge, but it also allows the students to get a taste of the different steps and try out several tools for ideation and presentation. We wanted to spark curiosity and give the participants confidence in their own creativity”, says Julia Micanovic, one of the Stormathon coaches and part of the Storm team.