Managing the University of Helsinki, Helsinki Incubators, Sustainability and Nature Tech Incubator Programmes during 2026 – 2027

The University of Helsinki’s Incubator and Entrepreneurship Services offer easily accessible programmes, courses, and services to support the development, launch, and growth of business ideas. The services are open to all members of the university community and citizens living in the Helsinki region who are interested in entrepreneurship. We organise multidisciplinary and generic pre-incubator programmes and sector specific incubator programmes. Incubator programmes offer in-depth support when there is already a business idea or solution crystallised and readiness to take the next steps towards becoming an entrepreneur. Through these programmes, we offer mentoring from carefully selected national and international mentors, workshops and help with launching products or services, applying for funding and getting ideas off the ground. Procurement description University of Helsinki, Helsinki Incubators is looking for a supplier for its coming four incubator programmes in the domain of Sustainability and Nature Tech during 2026 and 2027. There are two programmes organized within a year with a length of four months plus four months. The plus four months is a continuation programme for the most active and selected teams only. Programme starting times: February 2026 August 2026 February 2027 August 2027 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INCUBATOR PROGRAMME, Sustainability and Nature track in collaboration with other tracks (AI & Deep Tech and Social Impact) • Participate in the ‘call for applications’ and teams’ selection activities; preparations, interviews, analysis etc. • Get to know the participating teams and their needs; regular meetings • Provide feedback in a constructive and professional manner to the teams, 1-on-1 once or twice a month • Organise weekly workshops, secure the workshop speakers and sessions according to the Journeys incubator schedule and structure,in case there are cancellations from speakers side then finding a replacement or organise the workshop by yourself • Organise product/solution development workshops • Remind teams about the deliverables and when they are submitted, go through those and provide written feedback • Foster a spirit of cooperation. Share knowledge, feedback, and resources in a helpful manner • Host a session with mentors about your company and the programme, assign teams to mentors and coordinate the mentors’ and teams’ matching process • Make sure teams meet with mentors as agreed: Keep reminding the teams about the importance of meeting with mentors • Share workshop documentation (presentations and session recordings) through the chosen means (program's drive) with the participants • Do periodic followups with the teams and mentors • Plan, coordinate and host demo days – it might be a Demo Day for all the programmes, if so, coordinate with other programme managers and agree on tasks • In overall coordinate, share and discuss with other PMs and the marketing SUPPORT ACTIVITIES TO ENSURE SMOOTH RUNNING OF THE PROGRAMME • Participate Incubator team meetings • Make sure there is something to eat (snacks & drinks) for each session/workshop during the programme (provided by the programme) • Prepare the workshop space and leave the workshop space in the condition it was when arriving: neat and tidy