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An inspiring journey into the foundations of innovation, teamwork, and future-oriented thinking. Dive into psychological safety and design thinking. The Metropolia Minno® online course is an inspiring journey into the foundations of innovation, teamwork, and future-oriented thinking. Through engaging content and reflective exercises, you’ll dive into themes such as psychological safety, foresight and futures literacy, design thinking, and the Inner Development Goals framework. Discover how innovators think, collaborate, and lead change — and prepare yourself for the next steps in your journey, wherever it may lead! The course is completed entirely independently on the Moodle online platform. It is free of charge and suitable for anyone interested in the subject. After completing the course, the student will be able to: Define the concept of innovation. Understand the concept of teamwork and the key themes related to its success. Understand the Internal Development Goals (IDGs) related to sustainable development (SDG) thinking. Understands the key stages of the design process in development work. Experiment with foresight methods to anticipate their own competence development. Develop skills in identifying and recognizing one’s own competences. Operate a bilingual online-learning platform. Write in text format their main reflections. Receive and give peer feedback. In this course you will learn about the following topics: The concept of innovation Basics of teamwork The concepts of sustainable development and personal development and their reflection exercises The progression of the design process and its testing against an everyday challenge identified by the student Recognition and identification of own competences through a skills bank Future-oriented development of own skills The online course work includes videos and written materials, learning tasks related to the videos, a test, a learning journal, and providing and receiving peer feedback. Assessment Pass: The course is passed when you can demonstrate that you have grasped the key principles of the course and achieve a passing grade on the exam. You are able to assess your own skills as well as give and receive peer feedback. You have completed the learning tasks on the Moodle platform. Fail: The course is failed if you have not clarified the basic principles of the course, do not pass the exam, and have not completed the learning tasks on the Moodle platform. The exam on the Metropolia Minno® 1 online course can be retaken three times.

Understand the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, develop your own entrepreneurial skills, and identify opportunities in a everyday life. This course is a solid start for anyone who is interested in developing their own entrepreneurial skills. The course consists of both Cisco course and Moodle Quizzes related to each module found in Cisco course “Discovering entrepreneurship”. After completing the course student understands the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, understands the entrepreneurial perspective and is able to identify opportunities in a everyday life. After completing the course student understands the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, understands the entrepreneurial perspective and is able to identify opportunities in a everyday life. Cisco: 15 modules in total. Every module has text parts, exercises, “your turn” questions and quizzes. Moodle: 15 modules which correspond to the one’s found in Cisco. Every module has a short quiz related to the Cisco material. All the answers are mentioned in text parts of Cisco material. Module 1: Quiz 1:Entrepreneurship today Module 2: Quiz 2: Entrepreneurial vision and goals Module 3: Quiz 3: The Entrepreneurial Mindset Module 4: Quiz 4: Overview of the Entrepreneurial Journey Module 5: Quiz 5: The process of Becoming an Entrepreneur Module 6: Quiz 6: Entrepreneurial Pathways Module 7: Quiz 7: Frameworks to Inform your Entrepreneurial Path Module 8: Quiz 8: Entrepreneurial Opportunity Module 9: Quiz 9: Researching Potential Business Opportunities Module 10: Quiz 10: Competitive Analysis Module 11: Quiz 11: Clarifying Your Vision, Mission and Goals Module 12: Quiz 12: Sharing your Entrepreneurial Story Module 13: Quiz 13: Developing Pitches for Various Audiences and Goals Module 14: Quiz 14: Protecting Your Idea and Polishing the Pitch though Feedback Module 15: Quiz 15: Reality Check: Contests and Competitions Final Exam In order to complete the course, student must complete both Cisco and Moodle materials successfully. The whole course itself is worth one credit. It is recommended that after completing one module in Cisco, one returns back to Moodle to complete the quiz related to the one completed in Cisco. After completing all the modules, quizzes, and final exams successfully the course is completed. This is a non-stop course and can be taken any time between August 2026 and December 2027. Please note that the registration is open until July 2027.