The UiO Growth House – UiO’s innovation unit for life sciences, health, and technology
Student innovation on the roll
Co-Create kicked off with Design Thinking workshops
Our new student innovation programme 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 participate. Mid-March we kicked off Co-Create with Design Thinking workshops on Calm Tech Futures and Medicine, AI and Dignity with Joseph Makokha and students in action. Oslo Science Park was present and interviewed participants and organisers.
The next Co-Create happening: Dark Horse Event 16 April
An event for students to revisit innovative ideas that seemed too wild. Explore these ideas with mentors and students from diverse technical and academic backgrounds. You may already have an idea, or can come up with during this event. Lack a team? Come join someone!
Apply for support from SEFIO for innovation project
Students may apply for up to NOK 25 000 from the Students Entrepreneurship Fund in Oslo (SEFiO). SEFiO is a collaboration between UiO, BI, OsloMet, NMBU and Kristiania. UiO is member through the UiO Growth House.
- Read more about how to apply on sefio.no. The next application deadline is 7 May.
Vacant positions in the UiO Growth House
- Section manager for operative innovation guidance activities, application deadline 8 April
- Next week advertisements for two innovation adviser positions are probably ready. Check our website and LinkedIn account.
Events
Warming up for Arendalsuka and event on health industry with drop-in input event
On 22 and 23 April, we are organizing a drop-in input event in Oslo Science Park as a warm-up for the event on the health industry during Arendalsuka. How can we individually and together contribute to realizing the road map for the healthcare industry? And what instruments and framework conditions need to be in place to create growth in the healthcare industry? Drop-in when it suits you in the time slot we have set aside: 22 and 23 April at 10–15. The UiO Growth House and Oslo Science Park are present and can answer questions. A range of actors in the innovation ecosystem are partners.
Health industry at Arendalsuka
On 14 August, we are organizing the meeting Health industry from A to Z – this is how we succeed in realizing the roadmap together with a number of partners the innovation ecosystem.
- See the event on arendalsuka.no and save the date.
The innovation conference Science Impact
On 25 September we are hosting the innovation conference Science Impact for the second time in collaboration with several internal and external partners. The topic this year is artificial intelligence in life sciences and energy. The conference is a part of Oslo Innovation Week.
- Visit the conference website and save the date.
Upcoming courses the School of Health Innovation
Course for professors and managers
How to combine being a scientist and a health innovator, and increase innovation in your lab.
12–13 June 2024 in Copenhagen
Registration opens 8 April. Check the course website and our LinkedIn account.
Course 2 Entrepreneurship in healthcare
Get the opportunity to access one of Scandinavia?s most advanced support systems for healthcare entrepreneurs.
3 modules à 2–3 days in September and October in Oslo and November in Stockholm.
Registration opens 7 May. Check the course webpage and our LinkedIn account.
New webpage for internal innovation funding at UiO
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. Now you will find an overview of UiO's innovation funds and the UiO Growth House seed funds as well as the calls from the innovation programmes SPARK Norway and SPARK Social Innovation gathered on one page.
The innovation award 2024
Take part in Inven2's innovation competition the Innovation Award 2024 (formerly known as the Idea Award). The competition is open to employees at the University of Oslo and the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority. The winner receives 500 000 NOK. Deadline 1 May.
New in the UiO Growth House
After a period as entrepreneur-in-residence at UiO's technology transfer office Inven2, Sander J. Tufte has moved on to the UiO Growth House. He will be part of the UiO Growth House team for the next six months. Sander has experience from both the Research Council of Norway, Innovation Norway and the health industry. In the UiO Growth House, he will work on the innovation mission of UiO with a particular focus on facilitating strategic collaboration with industry.
Reminder: Annual report 2023
In our March newsletter that we sent during Easter, you could read about how we in 2023 have worked with our low-threshold innovation services to support innovative researchers and strengthen the innovation culture at UiO. Our goal is that more knowledge from research at UiO will be put to use to benefit society.
In the annual report, you can also read interviews with researchers at our owner faculties who have used our services. They tell about their research and innovation projects and how our services have helped them. The report is available in Norwegian, but the interviews with the researchers are in English.
Contact us if you have an early-phase innovation idea!
We offer tailored guidance and support, including seed funding up to NOK 200,000. Contact us if you want to discuss how to proceed with your early-phase innovation idea.
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Published 5 April 2024