Need for business contacts? Crazy Town offers a base and network from within the business community for higher education institutions and developer organizations.
The community membership is suitable not only for growth-oriented entrepreneurs and companies but also for higher education institutions, developer organizations, and project actors. It serves as both a physical base and a gateway directly into the world of Finnish growth and SME companies. It’s not just about a desk, but a community where trust, collaboration, and results are created.
A base in six locations and part of local networks
Crazy Town membership offers higher education institutions, developers, and project actors the opportunity to be present in multiple locations according to their needs. Designated teams and key personnel can work in the community’s spaces in different cities and leverage local connections and events.
Projects often benefit from a more flexible workspace solution than what their own organization’s standard facilities provide. If the work requires close collaboration with external actors, organizing events, or moving across city borders, Crazy Town membership is an agile and cost-effective solution.
Are you recruiting a project expert from a different city than where your organization is located? The everyday life of multi-location teams is also eased when remote workers can be offered a work community and base close to their home.
Kickstarting projects and bringing in external funding
Proximity makes collaboration straightforward. New contacts often arise at the lunch table or coffee machine.
Developer organizations can independently or with community support organize events at Crazy Town, such as hackathons, idea competitions, and workshops where experts, students, and companies meet. New ideas, collaboration opportunities, and projects emerge here.
Crazy Town’s growth and innovation services, or its in-house team, are available as needed. We carry out dozens of acceleration programs and new creative innovation and matchmaking events annually in Finland and Europe.
Getting to know new technologies and phenomena
Crazy Town members are growth-oriented. You will find hundreds of experts from various fields in the group who want to develop and test new solutions among the first. It’s easy to spread knowledge or create new things together with them. Events lower the threshold to get acquainted with new technologies and enable the transfer of information between different actors.
Interested? Below are a couple of case examples of how community membership has assisted projects and higher education institutions.
CASE: Lahti Sports Hub â from a sports network to a national phenomenon
Ladec utilizes Crazy Town’s membership to spread the activities of Lahti Sports Hub nationally and internationally. The network connects stakeholders in sports business and technology.
Results:
- National presence
- New members in the network
- Collaboration with higher education institutions and international partnerships
- Practical matchmaking and new projects
CASE: LUT University’s expertise in the daily lives of businesses and the student entrepreneurship community
LUT University’s Department of Production Economics uses Crazy Town Lahti as a platform to bring research and education directly to local businesses. Joint workshops will address topics such as the application of mechatronics and artificial intelligence in industry. Meanwhile, the student community LahtiES received a base and support from Crazy Town for organizing events such as hackathons.
Benefits:
- Direct connection to business needs
- New projects and collaboration opportunities
- Support for student-led entrepreneurship activities, mentoring for early-stage teams, support for community initiation
CASE: GPT-Lab and Crazy Town facilitate the adoption of artificial intelligence in all types of businesses
The GPT-Lab at the University of Tampere is a specialized unit focused on artificial intelligence, aiming to make AI technology easily accessible and provide concrete assistance to businesses of all sizes. The GPT-Lab, which joined the community in Tampere, and Crazy Town will organize various low-threshold events where companies can test AI solutions for their own needs, learn about the possibilities of AI, and find help for further development.
If you’re interested, check out memberships and get in touch with the Crazy Town team
