• OUR PROJECT: 4 Green Innovation Camps and 5 Teachers meetings
• OUR METHODOLOGY: The Innovation Camp Concept
• OUR DIGITAL TOOL: Our own Innovation Camp App (from an earlier Erasmus+ project)
• PARTNER SCHOOLS: Foss School, Oslo, Norway and Lillerudsgymnasiet, Karlstad, Sweden.
• PARTICIPANTS: 100 entrepreneurship students and teachers.
• OTHER PARTNERS/SUPERVISORS/JURY: Junior Achievement, Oslo and Junior Achievement, Värmland. BI Oslo business School.
• TASKGIVERS/SUPERVISORS/JURY: ELVIA, electricity company, Norway. BWELL health app, Sweden. Q-MEIERIENE, dairy, Norway. LÖFBERGS KAFFE, coffee company, Sweden.

You will find more about the Innovation Camp Concept, the tasks and results/the student’s solutions and what we achieved in the project under the heading “Green Innovation Camps 2022-24”, placed to the right, up in the heading on the web page.

Her are the programs for our 4 Innovation Camps and 5 Teacher’s Meetings:

INNOVATION CAMP NO. 1 IN OSLO, 6. – 9. NOVEMBER 2022: PROGRAM:

SUNDAY 6. NOV

Arrival of Swedish students and teachers (by train) + they prepare the Camp / App

MONDAY 7. NOV

Phase 1: Green / The problem – AT THE COMPANY ELVIA

• 9 Eline: Welcome
• 9.15 Kim: The group division + Team building and creativity. The app + the process (5 groups of 4 people)
• 10.30 Per: Evaluation + Short break
• 11 The company: presents the assignment
• 12 LUNCH (with the Company)
• 13 Group work: The problem (+ Teacher meeting)
• 13.45 Kim: Supervisor meeting
• 14 pm Group work with supervisors available (UE, BI, teachers + the company)
• 16 pm Joint: summary of the day

TUESDAY 8. NOV

Phase 2: Blue / Ideas, Phase 3: Purple / Choose an idea – AT OSLO BUSINESS SCHOOL (OBS)

• 9 Eline: Welcome + Ulrika: Europass
• 10 Group work: Ideas / Choosing an idea
• 12 LUNCH
• 13 Group work: Ideas / The solution Learning meeting
• 14 Group work with supervisors available (UE, BI, the Company, teachers)
• 16 Joint Summary of the day

WEDNESDAY 9. NOV

Phase 4: Pink / The solution – AT THE OBS

• 9 Eline: Welcome + Kim: About Pitch
• 9.30 Group work: the solution – with tutors available
• 12:00 Submit solution proposals to the jury (UE, BI, the Company) + LUNCH
• 13 Practice the pitch + make a film
• 14.30 5 groups: 2 min pitch with PP + 1 min (max) commercial shown for jury and students
• 15 The jury works / Break / Per: Evaluation
• 15.30-16 The winners are announced by the jury/Diploma + Award ceremony
• 18:00 Shared dinner at Villa Paradiso, Grünerløkka

THURSDAY 10. NOV

8.15-9.45 Swedish pupils and teachers visit EB teaching at Foss. 9.45am-11am Tour of the school and meeting with management / teachers At 1.40 pm Swedish students and teachers return home

INNOVATION CAMP NO. 2 IN KARLSTAD 12. – 16 MARCH 2023, PROGRAM:

SUNDAY 12/3

Arriving and preparing for the Innovation Camp

MONDAY 13/3 Venue: Lillerudsgymnasiet, Hall H1

• 08.30-09.00 Lillerud walking tour
• 09.00-09.30 Coffee.
• 09.30-10.00 UE Kim Larsen
• 10.00-10.15 Break (self-evaluation)
• 10.15-10.45 Information BWELL (Anders & Acki)
• 11.00-12.00 Bwell tests in the sports hall
• 12.00-13.00 Lunch in the dining room
• 13.00-14.00 Coaching conversation Bwell (students receive their lifestyle plans)
• 14.00-14.15 Break
• 14.15-14.30 Global goals UH
• 14.30-16.00 Presentation of the task. Work on the task (understanding)

• TUESDAY 14/3 Location: UF Värmland, Inre hamn

• 09:00-09:30 Start-up and presentation: Young entrepreneurship Värmland.
• 09.30-09.45 Supervisor meeting. UF + Bwell
• 09:30-12:00 Work on the task. Teacher’s meeting.
• 12:00-13:00 Lunch at Olsson’s Bazar
• 13:00-16:00 Work on the task.
• Teacher’s meeting.

WEDNESDAY 15/3 Location: UF Värmland, Inre hamn

• 09:00-11:45 UF Värmland, Work with the task
• Teachers meeting
• Evaluation
• 12:00-13:00 Lunch at Olsson’s Bazar
• 13:00-16:00 Pitch, jury award ceremony (evaluation 2)
• 18:00 Closing O´Learys
• EuroPass

THURSDAY 16/3

• Visiting lessons

INNOVATION CAMP NO. 3 IN OSLO 5. – 8. NOV 2023: PROGRAM:

SUNDAY 5. NOV

Arrival of Swedish pupils and teachers. They are preparing the Camp

MONDAY 6. NOV

PHASE 1: GREEN / THE PROBLEM

• 9.00 Eline: Welcome
• 9.15 Kim: Groups, team building and creativity. The process
• 10.00 Per: Evaluation + Short break
• 10.30 Q-dairies: presents the mission
• 11.30 LUNCH 12.30 Group work: PHASE 1: GREEN / THE PROBLEM
• 13.00 Eline: Teachers’ meeting
• 13.15 pm Kim: How to ask good questions at the press conference at 14
• 13.45 Kim: Supervisor meeting (UE, BI, teachers)
• 14.00 Q-dairies: Digital Press Conference
• 15.15 Joint: summary of the day

TUESDAY 7. NOV

PHASE 2: BLUE / IDEAS + PHASE 3: PURPLE / CHOOSE AN IDEA

• 9.00 Eline: Welcome + Ulrika: Information about Erasmus + Kim: creative warm-up
• 9.30 Group work: PHASE 2: BLUE / IDEAS
• 11.30 LUNCH
• 12.30 Group work: PHASE 3: PURPLE / SELECT IDEA
• 13 Eline: Teacher’s Meeting
• 13.15pm Kim: How to ask good questions to the supervisors
• 14 .00 Q-dairies: Digital guidance on Teams (in the classroom):
• Group 1) 14-14.15, Group 2) 14.15-14.30, Group 3) 14.30-14.45, Group 4) 14.45-15, Group 5) 15-15.15
• 15.15 Joint: summary of the day
• 19.00 Shared: dinner at Villa Paradiso Grünerløkka

WEDNESDAY 8. NOV

PHASE 4: PINK / THE SOLUTION

• 9.00 Eline: Welcome + Kim: About Pitch
• 9.30 Group work: PHASE 4: PINK / THE SOLUTION
• 11.30 The groups deliver proposed solutions. LUNCH
• 12.30 The groups practice their pitch + make a film
• 14.00 The groups perform: 2 min pitch (with PP) + 1 min (max) advertising film for jury and students
• 14.30 Per: Evaluation + Break
• 15.00 The jury: announces the winners. Award ceremony + diploma for all Common: Summary of the Camp.

INNOVATION CAMP NO. 4 IN KARLSTAD, 17 – 20. MARS 2024: PROGRAM

SUNDAY 17/3

Arriving and preparing for the Innovation Camp

MONDAY 18/3

• Location: Löfbergs (fm) and UF Värmland (em), Inner harbour 8.15-08.30 Welcome (outside Löfbergs)
• 08:30-12.00 Löfbergs has the floor. The company presents itself and its work with sustainability. The company presents the task. Q & A with Löfbergs (Löfbergs, UF Värmland, Lillerud and Foss)
• 12.00-13.00 Lunch at Olsson’s Bazar (buffet)
• 13.00-13.20 Film (EM), Self-evaluation (PM)
• 13.20-13.50 Start with UF (Klara and Albert)
• 13.50-14.20 Work on the task: Introduction (Eline, Per, and Emma)
• 14.20-14.30 Break
• 14:30-15:00 Erasmus+ and World Goals no. 12. (Ulrika)
• 15:00-16:15 Work on the task (understanding). (UF + teacher)

TUESDAY 19/3

Location: UF Värmland, Inner Harbour

• 09:00-12:00 Work on the task (idea hunting). UF + client + teacher. Work on the task (choose an idea). Filippa and Lena from Löfbergs are on site.
• 09.30-09.45 Supervisor meeting. (UF + teacher)
• 10:30 Break
• 11:00 Teacher meeting.
• 12:00-13:00 Lunch at Olsson’s Bazar
• 13:00-16:00 Work with the task (the solution) UF + teacher Group voting. 15 minutes per group. (Clara and Albert) Teacher’s meeting.

WEDNESDAY 20/3

Location: UF Värmland, Inner Harbour

• 08:30-09:00 Front pitch (Kim, UE Oslo)
• 09:00-11:45 Work on the task (the solution). Practice pitching and making commercials.
• 11:45 DEADLINE for submitting the assignment The solution is written on a computer! Use the support sheet “Løsningsforslag”.
• 12:00-13:00 Lunch at Olsson’s Bazar
• 13:00-13:30 Prepare pitch and film
• 13:30-14:15 Pitch and film – the jury group on site
• 14:15-15:15 Evaluation (Per). (jury work)
• 15.20 Prize distribution: Best solution and Best advertising film
• 18:00 Closing dinner at O´Learys (students/teachers)

TEACHER’S MEETING NO. 1, KARLSTAD 11. – 13. OCT 2022: PROGRAM

October 11

Arrival + preparing for the meeting

October 12

09:30 We begin with a shared coffee. Location: School canteen 10:00 am Review of the project’s structure and content. Planning of upcoming activities. Location: Classroom 1 12:15 p.m Lunch Location: School canteen 13:00 Continued review of the project and planning of future activities. Review of the Innovation Camp App. Location: Classroom 1 16:00 Planning day 1 ends.

October 13

09:30 We meet at Ung Företagsamhet Värmland (JA) premises in Karlstad 10:00 am Continued planning for future activities. Location: Ung Företagsamhet Värmland 12:30 p.m Lunch Location: Olsson’s Bazar 1:30 p.m Sofia Beckman and Rebecca Hansson from Ung Företagsamhet Värmland introduce themselves and their organization. Emma Maschel presents the organization Bwell, their method and activities. Time for questions Location: Ung Företagsamhet Värmland 16:00-16:30 Planning day 2 ends.

TEACHER’S MEETING NO. 2, OSLO 12. – 14. FEB 2023, PROGRAM:

February 12

Arrival and preparing for the meeting

February 13

Nedre Foss at Mathallen at 9 -15 10-10.30: Coffee break 12-13.00: Lunch break 14-16: We go through our Erasmus project: • The Project description • Planning of the Innovation Camp in Sweden in March • Cooperation Partners • Economy • Reports Evaluation: • Evaluate Oslo IC autumn 2022 • Evaluate our communication platforms • Evaluate the evaluation(!) We look at two new Platforms: • eTwinning: https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/nb/etwinning • School Education Gateway: https://www.schooleducationgateway.eu/en/pub/index.htm

February 14

At Sentralen: where UE Oslo is located: https://www.sentralen.no/ Adress: ØvreSlottsgate 3 SoCentral (at Sentralen): https://www.socentral.no/ Sentralen’s cafe: https://www.sentralenrestaurant.no/kafe. 9 – 10: Continued planning of our project 10 – 11: Tour of the Sentralen + meeting with Kim Østberg Larsen from UE Oslo 11-12: Lunch at Sentralen 12 – 13: Sofie Furu SoCentral gives a presentation on how SoCentral works with its unique model for sustainability Meeting room 5.1 13 – 15: Continued planning of our project

TEACHER’S MEETING NO. 3 IN KARLSTAD, 24. – 26. SEPT 2023, PROGRAM:

September 24

Arrival and preparing for the meeting

September 25

08:00-12:00 Planning for Green Innovation Camp 3, Oslo. Location: Brisen, UF Värmland, Inre hamn, Karlstad 11:45-12:30 Lunch at Olsson’s Bazar 13:00-16:00 Study visit to Finnbråten’s forest sheep. Loose clothes

September 26

08:00-09:30 Planning for GIC3 Oslo Location: Conference room, Lillerudsgymnasiet 09:30-10:00 Coffee 10:00-11:00 UF Värmland starts the Entrepreneurship course with year 3. We do a “study visit”. 11:00-15:00 Lunch + Continued planning.

TEACHER’S MEETING NO. 4 IN OSLO 4. – 5. MARCH 2024, PROGRAM:

March 3

Arrival and preparing for the meeting

March 4

Foss upper secondary school 9.00 – 15.00: Work with the Small Scale Project at Nedre Foss 10.00 – 10.30: Coffee break 12.00 – 13.00: Lunch break 14.00 – 16.00: We go through the Small Scale Project: • We go through the Project Description • Evaluation of the project so far • Planning the Innovation Camp in Sweden in March • Collaboration partners • Economy • Reporting

March 5

Foss upper secondary school 9.00 – 10.00: Continued work with the Small Scale Project at Nedre Foss 10.00 – 12.00: Visit to entrepreneurship class 12.00 – 13.00 Lunch break 13.00 – 15.00: Continued work with the Small Scale Project at Nedre Foss + Visit to entrepreneurship class preparing for the County Championship: • Pitch training • Stand preparations.

TEACHER’S MEETING NO. 5 IN OSLO, 2. – 3. SEPT 2024, PROGRAM:

September 2

9.00 – 15.00: Foss videregående skole, Nedre Foss: Work with Evaluation + Final Report from the Small-Scale Project 10.00 – 10.30: Coffee break 10.30 – 11.30: Exchange of experience / Visit to entrepreneurship class (3rd class) 12.00 – 13.00: Lunch break. We are working with the Final Report from the Small Scale Project: Context, Project Summary, Project Description, Implementation, Impact and Follow-up, Annexes + Checklist + Evaluation.

September 3 + September 4:

9 – 15: Foss upper secondary school, Nedre Foss 9.00 – 15.00: Continued work with Evaluation + Final Report from the Small-Scale Project 10.00 – 10.30: Coffee break 12.00 – 13.00 Lunch break. 14.00 – 15.00: Exchange of experiences + Visit entrepreneurship class (2nd class).

        

Monday 8. February

In the morning the Latvian students, teachers and headmaster arrived, and met the Norwegian students, teacher and headmaster for lunch at Foss school.

After lunch we had an entrepreneurship lesson with a presentation of all the seven mini companies that were present. From Latvia: Framed Lights and Bbag. From Norway: Minihagen, Matfatet, Usefood, eldre@nett and EnergYou. This lesson we also prepared the Oslo Trade Fair at Wednesday.

In the evening the Latvian group went to the Norwegian Opera to see the ballet “Giselle”. The Norwegians were very busy preparing the Trade Fair.

Thuesday 9. february

This day was also dedicated to Trade Fair preparations, and everybody met for lunch at Foss.

After lunch the Swdish group arrived and we had presentation at the entrepreneurship lesson. The Swedish mini companies were: Let’s be proud, Lact and Soda Speakers. The five more mini companies at Foss were: Libellus, Lucio, Dux, Tidsklemmen and Billisa.

In the evening we all had a Thai-dinner at school together.

 

Wednesday 10. February

This was the big Trade Fair day! Everybody arrived at Norges Varemesse at Lillestrøm at 8 o’clock ready to prepare the stand for two hours before the welcome ceremony.

The Latvian and Swedish mini companies participated in the following four competitions: Best pitch, Best stand, Best salesteam, Best seller. And the Latvian mini company Framed Lights won the 1st prize for the Best Salesteam!! One of the Swedish students were nominated among the best sellers and Bbag from Latvia was nominated among the best Pitches. Congratulations!!

 

8 of the 10 Norwegian mini companies won 11 prizes and had 11 nominations so our student group could not complain about the results:)

 

After the Trade Fair we had a dinner at one of Oslo’s best pizza restaurants, Villa Paradiso. We were tired, but happy!

Thursday 11. February

This day was our day for cooperation, inspiration and evaluation! We started in the morning with an Innovation Camp, arranged at Foss school by the company EVRY.

As one of the largest IT companies in the Nordics, EVRY provides very extensive deliveries to Nordic companies, financial institutions, national public sector entities, municipalities and health authorities. Thomas Hafstad (a former Foss entrepreneurship student) and Miriam Øyna from EVRY divided the students into international groups to work with this  task: “Future banking for young Europeans”.

After three hours intense work, the students presented impressive solutions for future banking! The winners were Group 4 with “Budget Bracelet“, well done!

After lunch at school together we had a lecture by a Norwegian gründer, Arne Kollandsrud from Tide Tec. TideTec is a Norwegian tidal company focused on developing the most efficient and flexible turbine technology for tidal barrage/lagoon and flood protection systems. TideTec holds several patents for state of the art tidal turbines and construction of tidal power plants.

Arne focused on innovation and how to get an idea into a real product and how to start up a company.

 

In the end of this day, the students wrote their CV’s, using the Europass web site, that helps you to fill in five documents to make your skills and qualifications clearly and easily understood in Europe.

The farewell dinner was at the restaurant at PS hotels, close to school, which is a hotel that is a innovative place that “works as a tool for people who need advice, knowledge and experience on their way to full employment, in an inclusive workplace”.

  

Friday 12. February

Tha next day the Swedes left early for Strömstad in their cars, and the Latvians had planned some sightseeing. We started out with a small concert in Oslos’s oldest church, Gamle Aker kirke.

Then we had a (cold!) stroll in The Vigeland Park and headed for Holmenkollen. We went by lift all the way to the top of the skijump and also visited the Ski museum. After this visit it was time for some refreshments and later on dinner at Grünerløkka and in the evening the plane to Latvia:)

THANK YOU, EVERYBODY FOR AN INSPIRING WEEK TOGETHER!

 

These days in Strömstad with one day at Koster, were very refreshing and inspiring for us from Riga and Oslo. It was really an experience to visit Koster, and everybody wants to return already!

It was interesting and challenging to be involved in solving a task from “real businesslife”, as we understand that also Strömstads authorities and tourist offices are working with.

Thank you Ola, Irene and Gunilla for a impressive and wonderful planned event!! See you in Oslo in february.

The jury was very impressed and a lot of brave and creative solutions for Koster Islands in winter were presented, among these:

• Glass tunnels under water
  
• A lobster and music festival
• A sustainable resort
• A hotel with underwater rooms
• Base camp activities
• A restaurant with seafood you have caught yourself and cooking classes before you eat the food

Most of Wednesday the international groups worked hard with the task. We also went to Daftö Camping to get inspiration and information.

The groups had to prepare a buiness plan, a marketing campaign, a commercial and a vision: What will Kosterhavet National Park and the surrounding environment look like in 10 years?

Hard work, all in English while learning about each other’s different ways to solve tasks.

Everyone has to adapt and work concentrated to get a good result for the group.

Assignment 1  Business concept / Business plan / Marketing campaign
CREATE A BUSINESS CONCEPT WITH EMPHASIS ON SUSTAINABLE TOURIST ACTIVITIES IN KOSTERHAVET NATIONAL PARK AND THE SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT.

Your target group is European youths age 20 to 30 years. The business idea should be based on sustainable activities which should meet the certification criteria of Nature’s Best (a Swedish national quality label for nature tours).

Asssignment 2 Create a Vision
CREATE A VISION ABOUT KOSTERHAVET NATIONAL PARK AND ABOUT THE SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT WITH A TEN YEAR PERSEPCTIVE. WHAT WILL IT LOOK LIKE TEN YEARS FROM NOW?

 

At Koster we visited Koster Sea National Park Center and saw a film and then divided into two groups: one group  had a guided tour in the Center and the other group had a crab fishing competition outside.

Later on we all rented bikes and had a guided tour around Koster, we looked at the sorroundings and had a very nice lunch at charming Koster Gardens: carrot soup and apple cake.

After lunch we climbed the island’s highest point to see the view.

Impressed to have been watching this island’s many charming places we went back to Naturum to get the task for Innovation Camp.

In September we met again, 9 students from Latvia, 10 students from Sweden and 12 students from Norway. And 3 Latvian teachers, 3 Swedish teachers and 1 Norwegian teacher. Everybody excited about getting to know the other entrepreneurs. The first evening  we had dinner together and then went to school to present our countries and mini companies.

We are very grateful to our kind and hospitable hosts, both students, teachers and Headmaster. They have all been working very hard to plan and conduct these eventful days for us in the beautiful city Riga! We went home with a lot of new exciting experiences and interesting knowledge.

We look forward to meet again in Strømstad this autumn.