Draft Program®

Draft Program gives you a chance to make small-scale experiments and develop your business idea
without bureaucracy. The program is available for students and staff of Karelia UAS,
University of Eastern Finland, Riveria, Savonia UAS and Savo Consortium for Education.

APPLY FOR DRAFT PROGRAM IN KUOPIO BY SEPTEMBER 27th, 2021!

APPLY FOR DRAFT PROGRAM IN JOENSUU BY SEPTEMBER 27th, 2021!

Funding call: Photonics-related product and service ideas – apply by Nov 11th 2021

We are looking for students, researchers and alumni of photonics or engineering who have an idea for a new product... read more →

September 22, 2021

Yoosh and the use of digital tools

Andrei Potekhin from Team Yoosh uses a number of online digital tools that makes his life as a startup entrepreneur... read more →

September 9, 2021

Invested application has progressed to the testing phase

Invested is a mobile phone application to learn stock investing. With the app, users are able to train investing without... read more →

August 26, 2021

Coaches’ point of view when setting-up a business in Finland as foreigner

For a Draft entrepreneurship coach, an international team targeting international market is always a unique opportunity. In this article our... read more →

May 5, 2021

Water treatment solution for the Nigerian market – Case EnviroVesi

Two UEF PhD students embarked on a quest to solve some of the problems of getting access to clean water... read more →

May 5, 2021

‘Invested’ mobile app breaks prejudices against stock investing

Invested is a gamified mobile application for familiarizing oneself with the stock market. In the application, the user can gain... read more →

April 19, 2021

From DRAFT Program to business acquisition

Sakari Tolppanen’s story is a prime example of how one’s own idea can turn into a success story when you... read more →

March 9, 2021

Applicants’ expertise convinced in the Draft business idea competition in Kuopio

A total of 12 teams were interested in the 2021 first application of the Kuopio Draft business idea competition. All... read more →

February 12, 2021

Kuopio Draft program offered high-quality pitches

Participants pitched smoothly online for the second time in the Kuopio Draft program. The jury evaluated on October 1-2 a... read more →

October 9, 2020

Kuopio online Draft board rewarded particularly second round teams

Kuopio Draft presentation day for new business ideas in on May 14 was arranged as an online event. Totally eight teams... read more →

May 29, 2020

Team Big Lake: For all those boat rides gone bad

In all those boat rides where everything seems to go wrong, this guy started to think and got this idea...... read more →

April 22, 2020

Exercise: Problem definition, morphological table and decision-making matrix

by Heikki Immonen By doing this exercise you will get familiar at using three tools that make solving complex and... read more →

November 19, 2019

Draft program in Kuopio gathered ideas from augmented reality to coffee bar operations

Kuopio Draft Program in September 2019 gathered up eight new business ideas and two follow-up applicant teams. The range of... read more →

October 10, 2019

New Draft teams in Joensuu

New Draft teams elected This autumn five new teams were elected to take part in the Draft Program®. The teams... read more →

October 8, 2019

Team: Traveload

What does Traveload stand for? Our goal is to create a personalized travel plan, based on customer lifestyle, wishes, opportunities,... read more →

September 17, 2019

Team: Poppy

Team: Poppy – Online clothing store and Pop-up Store We are team Poppy from Karelia University of Applied Sciences. We... read more →

June 6, 2019

New Draft teams in Joensuu

This spring six new teams were elected to take part in the Draft Program®. The teams will test and develop... read more →

June 6, 2019

New Draft teams in January 2019

This spring eight new teams were elected to take part in the Draft Program®. The teams will test and develop... read more →

February 5, 2019

Funding call: How to increase the attraction of Joensuu, the city needs your ideas – apply by 3 Dec

How would you increase the attraction of Joensuu? The city is looking for teams to develop innovative product or service... read more →

October 23, 2018

New Draft teams / September 2018

This autumn three new teams were elected to take part in the Draft Program® in Joensuu. The teams will test... read more →

October 10, 2018

New Draft teams / May 2018

In May 2018, 8 new teams were elected to the Draft Program. This time the students and staff of Riveria... read more →

October 5, 2018

New Draft teams / January 2018

New Draft teams: Team NeuroTracking, team leader Pauli Turunen Team Kyvykäs, team leader Sakari Tolppanen Team Älylaatikko, team leader Tapio... read more →

October 5, 2018

CONNAX is looking for the best IoT startup idea

Internet of Things is the interconnection via the Internet of computing devices embedded in everyday objects, enabling them to send... read more →

October 5, 2018

New Draft teams / September 2017

The Martians: Automatically flying Ornithopter We are The Martians, a team from NASA’s Epic Challenge education program. Our idea is... read more →

October 5, 2018

New Draft teams / May 2017

AtomCloud 2600 We are working to develop cost effective industrial spectrometric solutions with focus for SMEs. In developing countries, many... read more →

October 5, 2018

New Draft teams / January 2017

Näyteikkuna Pohjois-Karjalaan (in the picture) Team: Maria Saastamoinen, p. 050 568 9242, maria.saastamoinen@karelia.fi Ekaterina Miettinen, p. 044 224 4557, ekaterina.miettinen@karelia.fi... read more →

October 5, 2018