After the successful Business Camp
May 2014, "Young Innovative Entrepreneurs" project continued its
cross-border cooperation with Business Camp II. The event was organized and
taken place from 03/12 to 09/12/2014 in Murmansk, Russia.
With the participation of YIE members
from Lapland University of Applied Sciences, InnoBarentsLab, Jo- Jo the dog
films and Urbanid companies, we looked forward to having a productive week.
Thursday (04/12/2014) was full of meetings.
Anzelika Krastina, the leader of InnoBarentsLab in Rovaniemi and MIBO partners Larisa
Bilous, Elena Skiotis, Elena Zubrickaya had a discussion about planning future cooperation
that resulted in signed cooperation agreement. Among few activities agreed for
the future is organisation of a winter school also in the form of a business
camp, creating joint publications and exchange of expertise through on-line or
on-campus lectures.
Jo- Jo the dog films visited their
Russian partners: Mr. Pink and Roxy. Joonas and his team planned to film “The
100 Hour Film Race 2014” in Murmansk and they were looking for great location
as well as support from local film producers.
Zoltan and Duong had a meeting with IT- centre “Fu2rama” in the afternoon.
It went well and promises cooperation in the future.
Next day, on Friday, we had a successful
Innovation and InnoBarents – 3DLab training at MIBO. In total there were about
40 participants that were very excited and active during the training and
SCAMPER workshop. All feedbacks were very positive from both Russian students
as well as MIBO partners.
Later
in the evening, we all participated in a networking event organized by Finnish
Consulate General in Murmansk to celebrate Finnish Independence Day.
On Saturday, the
filming crew continued its work on the film, while Anzelika has a meeting and
presentation at Murmansk International Lyceum. Also Russian media was very
interested to hear about the cooperation possibilities within the region and
with Lapland UAS in the future.
After shooting, Sunday was a chance for me to
see and have a better view about Murmansk as this is my first time visiting.
The city is undoubtedly great! People here are pretty kind and friendly and I
had an awesome enjoyable time with my new friends.
We continued working on Monday with a visit to Star Dome. It was exciting to
watch 3D movies in “Dome” and see Mariya explaining sciences in simplest way.
We had discussion and planned about future cooperation.
We left
Murmansk that afternoon in order to attend Kolarctic final seminar next day in
Rovaniemi while the filming group stayed for another day as planned.
I would definitely come back to this lovely city again. Спасибо! See you soon
Murmansk!
Text and photos: Duong Nguyen
