The UiO Growth House – UiO’s innovation unit for life sciences, health, and technology
NOK 1.3 million to innovative researchers from the UiO Growth House
The result for this year's call is out. Researchers from our two owner faculties the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine as well as researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Educational Sciences can look forward to guidance and seed funding from the Growth House. They will use the support to develop their own innovative ideas further. Congratulations!
Events
6 June: Impact Breakfast on future food
To feed a growing population we need more sustainable food production, and we need to utilize existing resources better. This requires a transformation of the food system and the development of novel technologies and sources for food. How will this impact what we eat in the future?
Place: Oslo Science Park
Time: 08.00–10.00
14 August: Health industry at Arendalsuka
We are organizing the meeting Health industry from A to Z – this is how we succeed in realizing the roadmap where we showcase how actors in the innovation ecosystem can contribute to realize the roadmap.
Co-organisers: Aleap, Health2B, Melanor HelseOmsorg21-r?det, Oslo Science City, Norway Health Tech, Oslo Cancer Cluster, The Life Science Cluster, Inven2 and Oslo Science Park
- See the event on arendalsuka.no and save the date.
25 September: The innovation conference Science Impact
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.
10 October: 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. We will have inspirational talk, role model talk and networking.
Place: Oslo Science Park
Time: 17.00–20.00
Co-organisers: The open innovation arena Health2B in Oslo Science Park and The Intervention Centre at Oslo University Hospital.
The programme will be out on the event webpage in August. Save the date!
School of Health Innovation: Apply for admission to course 2 Entrepreneurship in healthcare fall 2024
Get the opportunity to access one of Scandinavia?s most advanced support systems for healthcare entrepreneurs. Bring your own project idea that you believe could be commercialized and use it as the basis for developing a business plan. The three best project pitches will receive a money award at the end of the course. The School of Health Innovation covers all costs.
Dates: 3 modules à 2–3 days each from September to November
Location: Oslo module 1 and 2 and Stockholm module 3
Who can apply?: PhDs, postdocs, young clinicians and young professors who already have an idea for a start-up (it can be early stage). In total 30 places for participants from Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
Application deadline: 14 June
Read more about the course, course dates and the application criteria and apply!
New Growth House projects graduated from Aleap bootcamp
This spring the UiO Growth House has, together with the technology transfer office of the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Inven2, been partners at the health incubator Aleap's bootcamp for innovation projects and start-up companies for the third time. Several of the projects in Growth House portfolio have participated in the bootcamp where they have learned more about the path from idea to market with topics within value proposition development, regulatory process and intellectual property strategy, fundraising, organizational governance and pitching.
The bootcamp finished with a pitching competition where the winners were awarded a prize of NOK 30,000 from the UiO Growth House and Inven2. In the picture on the left are all the participants at the graduation event. On the right is the winner Nora Digranes from NMBU and Ard Innovation, together with Beate Rygg Johnsen from the Growth House and Mohammed Amarzguioui from Inven2. Congratulations.
Vacant positions for students
In the Growth House
- Student assistant 20%, 1 year, application deadline 31 May
The student will be responsible for the internship program we run together with student innovation associations.
In the Students Entrepreneurship Fund in Oslo (SEFiO)
Responsible for guidance, economy, marketing and coordinator & events
SEFiO is a collaboration between UiO, BI, OsloMet NMBU and Kristiania. UiO is member through 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 16 May 2024