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WHAT IS DEMOLA?
Demola is an international organization that facilitates co-creation projects between
university students and companies, either locally or internationally. To be more
specific, Demola is

WHAT IS DEMOLA?
A networkthat consists of
various
partners
including
universities,
their
faculties,
researchers and students, as well as
companies, local agencies and a
growing number of Demola
Centers around the globe. Not only
are we international, we are
interdisciplinary.

WHAT IS DEMOLA?
A co-creation concept that is
geared to solve real challenges.
Every project has an outcome be
it a new concept, a demo, or a
prototype. If the partner company
finds the outcome useful, the
company can license or purchase
the outcome, and take it for further
development.

WHAT IS DEMOLA?
A processthat is formatted
and facilitated. The Demola
process ensures that the work
is systematic and runs on
schedule. This way, the work
itself can be as creative as
possible, but the process keeps
things under control both in
terms of time and deliverable.

WHAT IS DEMOLA?
A frameworkthat makes is
easy for partners to come in
and cooperate. Each partner
has a clear role, and the work
is
guided
by
simple
procedures.
Contracts,
intellectual property rights,
licensing models, and other
legal requirements are in place
and
meet
international
business
standards
and
practices.

ON DEMOLA
BUILDING

THE

WORLDS

STRONGEST

I N NOVATI ON

ECOSYSTEM

Companies cannot invest in all good ideas. Demola enables

companies to be able to investigate ideas with a lower cost
than if companies handled all ideas themselves. Furthermore,
Demola enables universities to add work based projects into
education programs, and students may receive real world
project practice, industry contacts, and increase their value of
being employable. A conclusion of this is that the win-win of
the title of this contribution actually may be extended to a winwin-win relationship.

DEMOLAS MISSION

ON DEMOLA
Students of a development team
have the complete IPR (intellectual
property
rights),
but

corresponding company has the

right to buy the license of the
project
result.
Universities
contribute with teachers that
supervise and examine projects,
where a Demola project typically is
about 7.5 credits (typically 1/4 of
full time studies over one whole
semester).

ON DEMOLA

Supervision and significant support is also provided by facilitators

from a Demola organization. An organization running Demola is not
owned either by a company or a university. Primarily, that
organizations interest is only in students and to increase innovation.

ON DEMOLA
Demola proposes an agile development style (Agile
development), where conceive, design, and implementation
evolve through iterative collaborative steps. Recurrent meetings
take place with company representatives, feedback is provided
by university teachers, and Demola facilitators are continuously
in the discussion and feedback loop, with supporting seminars
and workshops. Students should take at least their third year to
be able to apply required amount of disciplinary knowledge.

FACTS & FIGURES IN 2014

DEMOLA CENTERS AROUND THE
WORLD

PARTNER COMPANIES

140

TALENTED STUDENTS

1600

UNIVERSITIES

37

PROJECTS

350

DEMOLA LOCATIONS

3. Demola Budapest
budapest.demola.net

1. Demola Tampere
tampere.demola.net

Egry Jzsef street 18. (V1 annex C

-Innovation

Vin Linnan aukio 15, 3rd floor

Lab) H-1111 Budapest, Hungary

33210 Tampere, Finland

4. Demola South Sweden
2. Demola Vilnius

southweden.demola.net

vilnius.demola.net

Scheelevgen 15A, Alfa2

Mokslinink g. 2a

SE-221 00 Lund

LT-08412, Vilnius, Lithuania

5. Demola East Sweden

8. Demola Basque Country

eastsweden.demola.net

Polgono El rbol, 25-26

Laxholmstorget 3
602 21 Norrkping
6. Demola Slovenia
slovenia.demola.net

48980 Santurtzi (Bizkaia)

7. DEMOLA LATVIA
LATVIA.DEMOLA.NET
SPIKERI QUARTER,
MASKAVAS STREET 10,
2ND FLOOR
9. Demola Saint Petersburg
RIGA, LV-1050, LATVIA
spb.demola.net

RAZ:UM,

Aptekarskiy prospekt, 2,

Slomkov trg15

Saint Petersburg, Russia

2000 Maribor, Slovenia

PARTNERS (COMPANIES)