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Mapping Espoo's youth entrepreneurship ecosystem

The city wanted to know how well its existing support actually reaches young people. The work was commissioned under the Yritysten ja yrittäjyyden Espoo development programme.

I designed the research and ran it over one summer: stakeholder interviews along the path a young person might take, conversations with young people, a survey, and the synthesis into a report for the city.

The sample had to include the young people no programme had reached yet, so the youth interviews happened where young people actually are in summer: parks, malls, cafes and sports fields, in pairs and small groups.

Summer 2026City of EspooProject lead50+ interviews34 organizationsReport delivered

Delivered

• Final report with five experiment proposals and nine appendices
• Ecosystem map and an entrepreneurship-path diagram for the city
• Interview frameworks and a survey instrument the city can reuse
• Results workshop and a presentation to the steering group

A mentoring pilot built from zero

Young people who are interested in entrepreneurship need access to people as much as to information.

We built the pilot end to end: the concept, mentor recruitment and matching, onboarding, mentor training and support materials, and the three touchpoints that hold a term together. I introduced the programme to students in March, ran onboarding in June, and we did the kickoff with the Finnish SUP and Surf Federation.

Mar–Aug 2026LYKKI × tmrw.Program lead10 mentees6 mentors

Workshops for the next generation of founders and builders

Problem Day, Lauttasaaren yhteiskoulu. Six hours on finding and validating problems, run with Aveksana for 25 students in eight teams. One loop: expand, sharpen, test, kill. Teams took their problems out of the building and interviewed at least five people who were not classmates.

Activation workshop, Etu-Töölön lukio. Two sessions for 102 students on the NY Vuosi Yrittäjänä course. Students wrote a real request and guessed how many people would say yes, then counted the actual answers two days later.

What I measure on both days is the change in how students think. The output produced in the room is beside the point.

Since spring 2026Upper secondary schoolsDesigner and facilitator500+ young people

Delivered

• Facilitator scripts another person can run cold
• Slide sets, prompt cards and kill criteria
• Before-and-after measurement instrument and a teacher brief

A multidisciplinary design sprint on COPD care

A 48-hour sprint with teams from several disciplines, built around a challenge from AstraZeneca and Nordic Healthcare Group on care for people living with COPD.

I owned the partner relationship and the challenge development, working with AstraZeneca's medical scientific advisor and NHG to shape a problem statement that would hold for a full sprint, then coordinated stakeholders, mentors, participants, materials and the delivery itself.

Spring 2026DASHAccount manager48 hours6 teams24 participants