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Students can apply for up to NOK 25 000 for their innovation projects from the Students Entrepreneurship Fund in Oslo (SEFiO). The next application deadline is 7 May.

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UiO has several different support schemes for innovative researchers. In 2024, a total of about NOK 16 million will be announced from internal funds. The UiO Growth House has made an overview all UiO's innovation calls and application deadlines to make the application processes more predictable for researchers.

Read about how we have worked with our low-threshold innovation services in 2023 to support innovative researchers and strengthen the innovation culture at UiO, and meet researchers who have used our services.

Do you have an innovative idea based on your research for a new product or service, but need funding to develop your early-stage technology or service further? Apply for seed funding from the UiO Growth House! The application deadline was 4 April 2024. 

Co-Create is all about helping students turn big ideas into real solutions for real-world problems. Students in the Oslo region who are curious about startups and entrepreneurship or just love solving problems can now apply to attend the new student innovation programme Co-Create. Application deadline for the initial design thinking workshops in March is 7 March.

The Growth House at University of Oslo is managing a new collaborative project which will strengthen the student innovation culture in the Oslo region. The project has been granted support from Innovation Norway. The goal is to establish more start-ups and contribute to value creation. OsloMet, BI, Kristiania, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Startuplab are collaborators.

Learn how to commercialize research or ideas into business ventures and how to innovate services in a clinical setting. Apply for admission to the spring course in health innovation and entrepreneurship. The course is free of cost.

A record number of 63 applications were submitted when UiO advertised the innovation funds this year. 23 projects have been granted funding from the rector's office to develop solutions to meet societal needs. We congratulate all the research groups.

Students can apply for up to NOK 25 000 for their innovation projects from the new fund the Students Entrepreneurship Fund in Oslo (SEFiO). The University of Oslo is a member of SEFiO through the UiO Growth House.

Companies that want to offer summer jobs through the internship programme supported by the UiO Growth House, can now sign up to attend in 2024. We hope to offer as many students as possible a summer job through the programme. Companies with fewer than ten employees can apply for co-funding of positions.

The innovation conference Science Impact gathered researchers from academia, hospitals and the institute sector and representatives from start-ups and larger companies.? See pictures from the event.

A model of the value chain for the health industry will help shed light on bottlenecks on the way from research and ideas to pharmaceuticals, medical devices or digital therapies that are exported and sold globally. It will help us prioritise when we are to build a sustainable Norwegian health industry in line with the government's new road map for the health industry. The university is an important contributor in many parts of the value chain.

Are you a researcher with an innovative idea for a new product, service, solution or technology based on your research, but need funding to develop the idea further? Check the UiO call for innovation funding within all academic fields. The application deadline was 31 August. Now we are evaluating the applications.

Learn from experienced entrepreneurs, leaders and academics how to develop your own research idea into a company. Apply for admission to the fall course in entrepreneurship in healthcare. The School of Health Innovation covers all costs.

Congratulations to 16 research groups at the University of Oslo that have been granted seed funding! The researchers will use the funding to further develop their own innovation ideas with the aim to put the research to use. All who applied for seed funding, will now be offered follow-up from the UiO Growth House.

Do you have an innovative idea based on your research for a new product or service, but need funding to develop your early-stage technology or service further? Apply for seed funding from the UiO Growth House! Application deadline 14 March 2023. 

The UiO Growth House, dScience ¨C Centre for Computational and Data Science, UiO:Life Science and UiO:Energy and Environment are now co-located in Oslo Science Park. ¡®Now the units can work more closely together and draw on each other's expertise as well as extract synergies from each other. This gives UiO the opportunity to develop its strategic initiatives and strengthen the innovation thinking¡¯, says UiO's vice-rector for research and innovation Per Morten Sandset.

In 2022 the Life Science Growth House was established as UiO¡¯s innovation unit for life sciences, health and technology. In 2023 we change our name to UiO Growth House to show that we cover all departments and centres at the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

The Life Science Growth House is the innovation unit for life sciences, health and technology at the University of Oslo. We help researchers and students to mature early-stage ideas. Watch our 2022 summary.

We have put behind us a fantastically exciting year in the Life Science Growth House where the door with our low-threshold innovation services opened on 18 February 2022.

In the research group of Professor Alessandro Cataliotti at the University of Oslo, the School of Health Innovation plays a vital role in the training of young researchers. Both the professor and his PhD student Reza Parvan have found the innovation courses highly relevant to broaden the career opportunities for young researchers.

Learn how to commercialize research or ideas into business ventures and how to innovate services in a clinical setting. Apply for admission to the spring course in health innovation and entrepreneurship. The School of Health Innovation covers all costs.

The Student association for pharmaceutical innovation, ShareLab in Oslo Science Park and the Life Science Growth House at the University of Oslo have teamed up on a project that gives pharmacy students the opportunity to work on innovative projects and acquire skills that are requested by industry.

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