For researchers and students at the University of Oslo, researchers at Oslo University Hospital (OUS) and Akershus University Hospital (Ahus), members of The Life Science Cluster, Health2B, Norway Health Tech, LMI, Oslo Cancer Cluster, Aleap, ShareLab, the Oslo Science Park community and Oslo Science City partners. Free of charge, but you have to sign up.
Registration opens at 4:30 PM, programme starts at 5:00 PM
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Programme
Inspirational talk
Tonje S?raas Birkenes, PhD, ??Principal Scientist, Laerdal Medical
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Tonje S?raas Birkenes is a Principal Scientist at Laerdal Medical, with a PhD from the University of Oslo and over 15 years of research experience in Telephone-CPR and emergency communication.?
She will share Laerdal’s remarkable journey from a small Stavanger toy company in 1940 to a global leader in lifesaving technology and simulation, a transformation built on strong partnerships with clinicians, researchers and academic institutions. Tonje will also highlight Laerdal’s deep commitment to the mission “helping save lives”. Through long-term collaborations with global partners, Laerdal has developed high-impact, low-cost solutions that strengthen care during childbirth and emergencies, contributing to major improvements in newborn and maternal survival in resource-limited settings.
Drawing on her own path from academia to industry, Tonje reflects on what it means to work as a scientific researcher in a mission-driven company—where evidence, technology and real-world collaboration come together to solve critical problems. She will share personal insights from leading innovation projects such as AI-supported emergency dispatch, illustrating how cross-sector partnerships accelerate progress and create solutions that truly meet the needs of patients, providers and society.
Role model talk
Emilie Nielsen Solheim, Value & Access Manager, Novartis Norge
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Emilie Nielsen Solheim is a trained nurse with a master's degree in health economics and management from UiO. In the summer 2023 she had an internship in Novartis through the Momentum UiO internship programme hosted by the UiO Growth House. She was offered at full-time job in Novartis spring 2024.?
Novartis is a global medicines company focusing on therapeutic areas with high unmet patient need: cardiovascular, renal and metabolic; immunology, neuroscience and oncology.
In her talk Emilie will share her experience from starting working in industry directly after graduation.
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Meet the companies: medtech and beyond
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More companies to come.
Networking with companies
Food and beverages, and mingling
About the innovation hangouts
This is an informal meeting place where students and researchers from the University of Oslo (UiO) can interact with actors from the public sector, hospitals, companies, mentors, business clusters and incubators within UiO's innovation ecosystem. We will provide inspirational talks, talks from role models, matchmaking, food and beverages, and mingling.
The overall goal of the UiO Growth House is to strengthen the innovation culture at UiO to put more knowledge from research to use. With this meeting place, we want to inspire researchers and students, give them self-confidence and knowledge about the innovation process, help them build networks, and facilitate collaboration between academia and industry.
The UiO Growth House established the innovation hangouts in collaboration with clusters in 2022. The events are arranged quarterly in the afternoon/evening.
Questions?
Please contact the UiO Growth House, Norunn K. Torheim, Head of communications and public and external relations, at?norunnt@uio.no
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