Student teams
Student teams are the TalTech SPIN flagship – independent NGOs where students from different disciplines pick a meaningful societal challenge and build an innovative technological solution for it.
What is a student team?
A self-organising, interdisciplinary team working long-term on a real-world challenge.
An NGO made up of students from different disciplines.
Students pick a meaningful societal challenge.
They develop innovative technological solutions.
Through hands-on collaboration they grow their own skills.
Example
NEXUS
NEXUS brings students, state agencies and industry together around a single concrete national defence challenge – building a tool that finds a target and acts on it.
The challenge
NEXUS brings students, state agencies and industry together around a single concrete national defence challenge – building a tool that finds a target and acts on it.
Mission 2026/2027
A tool that finds a target and acts on it.
- Flight time 3-4 hours
- Range 100 km
- Payload 25 kg
Stakeholders
NEXUS works in close cooperation with state agencies, academia and industry.
PPA
Mission owner · feedback loops · testing & airspace permissions · mentoring
Estonian Academy of Security Sciences
Testing environment at Väike-Maarja · current technical baseline · operational outlook
Estonian Defence Forces
Mission owner · feedback loops · mentoring
Milrem Robotics
Interested party · mentoring · job perspectives
Student drone club
Solution owners and builders