Helsinki Challenge science competition teams on stage 3.9.

The speaker of the evening will be, Mr Bruce Oreck, former United States Ambassador to Finland.

The evening will be our last major semifinal event, and your last chance to see all semifinalist teams before the finalist shortlist.

Each team has 5-7 minutes to present their solution to promote the world’s wellbeing. The evening will feature innovative ideas, fresh insights and future visionaries.

The teams have been solving very different challenges. Their goal is to solve a societal problem. One team investigates on how we could help child patients feel empowered and connected?

Another team is interested in how kids today spend more and more time online and on different kinds of devices. Parents often wonder if playing and learning in a digital environment instead of the real world could somehow be bad for their child’s development. Could digital interactions be as natural and rich as those in the physical world?

The competition prize of 375,000 euros will be presented at an international gala to take place in November 2015.

 Street address: Great Hall of the University of Helsinki, entrance Aleksanterinkatu 5.