Tutor application for DWS 2021 open!

Join us as a tutor in the DWS 2021!

Do you want to help create digital services of the future for the health and wellbeing sector? We are looking for Master students (University of Applied Sciences) to tutor and facilitate this year’s Digital Wellbeing Sprint. The DWS is being organized 21-28 May 2021, mostly virtually but Covid-19 permitting also partly face to face in Helsinki.

Your tasks as a tutor will include:

Participating in the 3UAS Digital Wellbeing Sprint intensive course as a tutor. During the DWS, multidisciplinary teams of students from 3UAS (Haaga-Helia, Laurea and Metropolia) create development ideas for healthcare and wellbeing service providers from the public and private sectors. Your task as a tutor is to support the development process and the students´ work. You can choose your own perspective as a utor: supporting the service design process, external communication, improving the group dynamics etc. As a tutor you will participate in shaping and designing the sprint before the course, facilitate the groupwork during the sprint and support in the evaluation of students after the sprint.

Read some of the experiences from last year’s tutors here: Salla, Cecylia, Hanna and Michelle.

What we offer tutors:

  • Experience in organizing a Google Ventures Design Sprint
  • An exciting and fun course, where you will develop hands on service design skills
  • 5 ECTS credits
  • The possibility to network with professionals in the health and wellbeing sectors
  • One of the tutors will be offered the part time position of project manager for the DWS 2022 next year.

We expect that you are capable to collaborate with different people and that you have some experience in development work. We appreciate a positive attitude, innovative and curious mind-set and willingness to learn new skills and develop the sprint with other tutors.

Apply to be a tutor at the Digital Wellbeing Sprint by 27 January 2021 through this link!

More information: Päivi Mantere paivi.mantere@laurea.fi, 046 856 7465 or project manager Michelle Sahal Estimé michelle.sahal.estime@student.laurea.fi

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