Newsletter June 2025
The UiO Growth House – UiO's innovation unit for life sciences, health, and technology
Call: The UiO innovation funds for researchers
Are you a researcher with an innovative idea based on your research that can contribute to solving an important need in society, but need funding to develop the idea further? Check the UiO call for innovation funding within all academic fields and both commercial and non-commercial projects. UiO has dedicated NOK 5 million to this call, and there are two categories of funding:
- Funding of idea and concept phase of up to 50 000 NOK per project
- Funding of test and further development phase of up to 400 000 NOK per project
Application deadline: 1 September 2025
The UiO Growth House manages the application process on behalf of UiO. Please send an email to innovation@growthhouse.uio.no if you have any questions.
13 August: Meet us at Arendalsuka – Health industry – how to take action with speed and power?
Norway needs increased value creation and new green jobs. The health industry is part of the solution for Norway. At the same time, already early autumn 2024, it was stated that Europe must increase its competitiveness. What is it that prevents us from taking the right steps to accelerate innovation and value creation?
Venue: Thon Hotel Arendal
Time: 10–11
Organisers: The UiO Growth House, Aleap, Health2B, Melanor, HelseOmsorg21-r?det, Norway Health Tech, Oslo Science Park, Oslo Science City, Oslo Cancer Cluster, The Life Science Cluster, Inven2 and LMI
See all the UiO events at Arendalsuka. UiO Growth House director Hilde Nebb is also speaking at the event on medical research 12. august.
4 September: Sign up for innovation hangout for academia and industry
With this meeting place we want to inspire, give self-confidence and knowledge about innovation processes and facilitate collaboration that puts more research to use for the benefit of patients and society.
Venue: Oslo Science Park
Time: 17–20
Programme
- Inspirational talk: Karoline Schjetne, PhD, Director R&D, Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Role model talk: Marit Inngjerdingen, PhD, Founder & CEO and Miriam Aarsund Larsen, PhD, CSO, Cellmover
- Pitches from companies: Dehns, Norwegian Industrial Property Office (NIPO), baba, precision-health.ai, AbbVie and
Regenics - Networking where participants can talk to all the speakers and companies.
Collaborators: The Life Science Cluster and Nansen Neuroscience Network
10–11 September: Sign up for HealthHACK 2025 – two days, one challenge, NOK 4000 prizes
Are you a PhD candidate or postdoc at UiO? Join HealthHACK 2025 to boost your academic confidence, meet the industry, network across universities, take part in a creative competition and explore the intersection between health and technology. Topic: heart health.
Organisers: The UiO Growth House at the University of Oslo, Intelligent Health at OsloMet, StartUpSmia at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Novartis, Medtronic and Det Glutenfrie Verksted.
Read more about the HealthHACK and sign up
Registration deadline: 29 August
20 places per university, first come – first served!
22 October: Sign up for the innovation conference Science Impact 2025 – tomorrow's solutions start today
Spend a day with great science, innovation and networking opportunities at this meeting place for academia, the institute sector, the public sector, start-ups and industry.? Topics: antimicrobial resistance, cancer, neuroscience, materials science, social innovation, and women's health. The conference is a part of Oslo Innovation Week.
At this conference we focus on initiatives in academia and industry and the need for collaboration as well as framework conditions needed to put research to use for the benefit of patients and society.
Venue: Oslo Science Park
Time: 8–17
Sessions:
- Impact Breakfast: Antimicrobial resistance – a global challenge with urgent need for new solutions
- Parallel session:
- Cancer treatment – Oslo a world-leading hub for radiopharmacy
- Materials science advancing medical research and development
- Parallel sessions:
- Neuroscience – better diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis
- Social innovation
- Impact Afternoon: Women's health research and development
See the lineup of great speakers and sign up
Main organiser: The UiO Growth House
Internal partners at the University of Oslo (UiO): Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Centre for Global Sustainability, Department of Informatics, Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology and SPARK Social Innovation
External partners: Inven2, SINTEF, The Life Science Cluster, Nansen Neuroscience Network, Oslo Cancer Cluster, LMI, Oslo University Hospital (OUS), Oslo Science City and Oslo Science Park
Summer jobs for innovative students
8 projects have been chosen for the Co-Create Summer Programme
Out of 73 applications representing 34 teams, eight projects – ranging from measuring hormones to gamified history education – have been awarded stipends and support. Co-Create is a student innovation programme that connects students across Oslo’s universities through entrepreneurship. The summer programme is made possible with support from the Oslo Municipality's Innovation Programme Oslo 2025 and Innovation Norway as well as from the universities affiliated with the programme.
- Read more about the projects that have received support (in Norwegian)
- See also news article in Shifter 17 June (in Norwegian)
15 students get summer jobs through the UiO Momentum internship programme
15 students also have summer jobs in companies through the UiO Momentum student internship programme, which is run by the Student Association for Medical Innovation (SMI), the Student Association for Pharmaceutical Innovation (SFI), the Student Association for Educational Science Innovation (SUI) with support from the UiO Growth House.
Happy summer holidays from the UiO Growth House!
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 26 June