Smart Campus Innovation Lab

Smart Campus Innovation Lab (SCIL) is a new idea to develop the brand new Tampere3 university consortium in Tampere area, Finland. In SCIL students work as experts in learning projects to develop operations, services and educational content of their own higher education institutions. This way SCIL produces a win-win situation, where both the students and the university consortium are clear winners. SCIL is based on projects, which combine students of many subject areas creating multidisciplinary project groups. As a result, the students learn great many things, e.g. project working, social skills, reporting and presentation skills, and Tampere3 has a vast amount of developers with which it can develop towards the future challenges both in education and in research. In this paper, we give an overview of SCIL concept and report first experiences on running SCIL projects.