Innovation CRUNCH Time 2025
The flagship event of HEIG-VD returns for its 4th edition from March 17 to 21, 2025. Nearly 300 final-year students in engineering and business economics at HEIG-VD will meet for a week dedicated to innovation to take on between 50 and 60 challenges.
Innovation CRUNCH Time aims to create a unique collaborative learning experience, based on encounters and exchanges between HEIG-VD final-year engineering and business students and industry. Organized in partnership with the Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM), the CRUNCH focuses on innovation, collaboration and the development of students' soft skills.
The event will feature an Innovation Challenge and a Startup Challenge.
Looking for innovative solutions to your problems? Entrust an innovation challenge to students.
Development of new products or services, digital transformation, connected objects, process optimization, UX/UI (user experience)... working in multidisciplinary teams, students use their theoretical and practical knowledge (IT, energy, electrical engineering, mechanics, mobility, UI/UX or economics) to solve challenges put forward by partner organizations, using a design thinking approach.
They are supervised by some thirty coaches from the teaching and research staff, and have access to HEIG-VD resources for prototyping (FabLab, software, etc.). By participating, partner organizations offer students immersion in the world of work, while helping them to develop essential skills for their future professional careers.
Are you a student with an entrepreneurial idea to develop? Join an existing entrepreneurial team or bring an entrepreneurial idea you'd like to develop.
