Teklab from the Infomedia department in UiB invites to its yearly MIX Innovation Days. Happening in Media City Bergen on Friday May 9th at 11 o’clock, the final year students in media and interaction design (MIX) will pitch their design prototypes and value propositions at a lively event with co-students, university colleagues and industry partners.

The MIX Innovation Day has been held for several years, and is a vibrant arena where bachelor and master students in MIX present their design solutions and prototypes. A jury evaluates the prototypes and hands out the MVP Award – the Minimum Viable Proptotype Award.

At the MIX Innovation Day 2025 you can learn more about seventeen different designs created to tackle real-world challenges across a range of industries, including computer games, apps and  web sites for partners as diverse as the Media Cluster Norway, Bergen Bysykkel and Parkinsonforbundet.

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Program

The event takes place in the Atrium at Media City Bergen, Lars Hilles gate 30, next to the Bergen Light Rail station Nygård.

11:00 – 11.05. Welcome.

Our master of ceremony Joao Ribeiro will introduce the event.

11.05 – 12:00: Bachelor webdesign projects.

The five bachelor projects will be presented in a series of pitches with comments from the jury. Read all about the projects below.

12:00 – 13:30: Master safari and lunch.

The twelve master projects will be presented simultaneously at a “safari” where the audience walk from stand to stand and talk with the students and discuss the projects’ merits. Read all about the projects below.

You will also be able to enjoy your free lunch during this session.

13:30 – 13.40. Launch of “Håndbok i innovasjon for studenter”.

TekLab recently published the free online book “Håndbok i innovasjon for studenter” and today it will be officially launched. The TekLab project has spent several years writing it, and a large numer of students and teachers have been involved in the project.

13.40 – 14:00: Awards ceremony.

The jury will announce the winners of the MVP Award for the bachelor and master projects.

The MVP Award

A jury of professional designers will evaluate the projects and give the students valuable  feedback. The jury will hand out the MVP award to the project that has the best chance of becoming a real product in the media industry, hence the name “minimum viable product” (MVP). There are separate prizes for the bachelor and master programs. The prize has been awarded for several years in a row, and you can read about the winners from 2024 and the winner from 2023.

The jury is:

• Precilia Isaksen is a UX consultant at Bouvet. She was named Designer of the Week by UX Norway in 2024. Precilia is a former MIX student and has previously worked at TV 2.
• Sofija Ivanova is a service designer at Youwell, a patient and health technology company. She is a board member of IxDA Bergen and has worked at several design agencies.
• Iselin Kornli holds an MSc in innovation and entrepreneurship and has spent the past nine years leading innovation projects, coaching cross-functional teams, and helping to establish innovation environments in several major companies.

We are really grateful that Precilia, Sofija and Iselin will join us as jury members.

Organization

The event is organized by The department of information science and media studies at UiB in collaboration with Agenda Vestlandet. Agenda Vestlandet was established by Sparebanken Vest to drive the green transition in Vestlandet, and it supports research, innovation, and dialogue around regional challenges and opportunities.

The event is prepared and managed by MIX master students Anine Glenne Arnesen and Julie Teilstad Østby  in collaboration with Joao Ribeiro, lead open innovation manager at GALP and a teacher at UiB, and professor Lars Nyre.