Your pathway to entrepreneurship.
Join us and let’s do something great together.
I need
an idea.
So you have the right mindset and passion, but the next big thing just hasn’t hit you yet?
I need
a team.
You have a brilliant idea or a product, but maybe not the skills to take it further? Or maybe you just want to brainstorm with people?
About Us
Lutes is a student-driven entrepreneurship society based at Skinnarila Campus in LUT University.
We are on a mission to drive student entrepreneurship on the regional level with our events and programs. Together with other entrepreneurship societies and country level startup initiatives we aim to build a strong startup ecosystem in Finland.
Learn. Network. Build.
Learn. Lutes arranges various entrepreneurship events throughout the year. In events like Taste of Success and Takeoff, our biggest event of the year, you’ll learn from the most experienced entrepreneurs and get to participate in case workshops. Lutes also arranges a Startup Excursion, where you get to visit the offices of the hottest startups of Finland.
Network. Lutes is all about bringing talented individuals, startups and future founders together. This is why we are launching Team Building by Lutes, a concept to achieve just this. Meet new people, engage in a community of encouragement and showcase your skills to participate in promising startups of the area.
Build. During Forward, a free 7-week program, ideas are taken into action with the help of professional coaches and mentors along with the tools you need in order to build your new startup. Day1 mentoring program provides promising new student startups money grants and a valuable network of mentors and investors in order to take their business to the next level.
Get your business to speed with help of our network.
Day1 is the most valuable mentoring program for early stage startups in the Karelia area.
Forward is a completely free 7-week-long program for building new startups.
All it takes is fresh ideas and people willing to turn them into reality.
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Events
Takeoff
Our annual flagship event, takeoff, brings together entrepreneurs, industry professionals and startup enthusiasts during one day of speakers and real life case workshops.
Taste Of Success
Taste Of Success is an event concept in which expert entrepreneurs come and share stories of their success and failures.
Other events
during the year, lutes organizes various other events with different organizations and partners.
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Team
Each year, Lutes selects a new team of entrepreneurially minded individuals to run the organisation.
Here’s our amazing team for 2020.
Mikko Pajula
President
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Patrik Pyöriä
Community (VP)
Ilari Iso-Mustajärvi
Partnerships
Olli Mattila
Projects
Santeri Huujärvi
Events
Quang Hoang
Events
