Newsletter August 2023
The UiO Growth House – UiO’s innovation unit for life sciences, health, and technology
Meet us at Arendalsuka
16 August: Road map and value chains as important tools for realising the potential in the new Norwegian health industry
Norway aims to become leading in health industry. What does the government's road map for the health industry and the value chains we present at the meeting mean for the work going forward?
Organisers: The UiO Growth House, Aleap, LMI, The Life Science Cluster and the HelseOmsorg21 council
Time and place: 16 August at 10–11, followed by food and beverages and mingling, Thon hotel Arendal
17 August: The need for more research, development and innovation in industry. How can academia contribute?
Norway has a lower proportion of R&D than our Nordic neighbours and countries we like to compare ourselves to, measured as a percentage of GDP. The proportion of R&D carried out and financed by industry is particularly low. The government aims to do something about this, and the goal is for R&D investment in the industry to reach two per cent of GDP by 2030. A strategy to achieve the goal is underway. The goal corresponds to almost a doubling in eight years – how can this be achieved?
Organisers: University of Oslo, University of Agder, NTNU, University of Stavanger, Kristiania University College, OsloMet and UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Time and place: 17 August 15.00–15.50, UiA-teltet, Arendal
See other events at Arendalsuka hosted by the University of Oslo (in Norwegian)
Sign up for the innovation conference Science Impact 27 September!
The innovation conference Science Impact 2023 – tomorrow's solutions start today 27 September is a meeting place for academia, the institute sector, the public sector, start-ups and industry that are developing solutions within health and environment. Sessions on the brain, heartbeat, body, energy production, energy storage and planetary health with great speakers and networking opportunities. The conference is a part of Oslo Innovation Week 2023.
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How do we develop solutions to secure a sustainable health system that will have fewer resources in the future? How can we maintain a healthier population to start with? How do we develop solutions for a sustainable power system? How can technology contribute to new solutions?? How should academia and industry collaborate to increase the impact of science?
Call: The UiO innovation funds for researchers
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. Researchers from all academic fields with an idea that has a potential for value creation are welcome to apply. 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: 31 August 2023
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.
Call: Joint postdoctoral programme in molecular life science in Oslo
Public institutions and industry are among those that are eligible to apply with group leaders at the Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM) at UiO.
Application deadline: 31 October 2023
The call is no longer active.
Internship: From medical student to entrepreneur and student mentor
?ira is a VR simulation programme with the aim of reducing the gap between the reading room and the treatment room for medical students. Founder and CEO of ?ira, Mari Zimmermann, was the first who received support from the UiO Growth House when she was a medical student in 2021. The following year she received a STUD-ENT grant from Innovation Norway, and moved into the health incubator Aleap in Oslo Science Park in the fall. This summer, she opened the doors to two medical students through the internship programme run by the Student Association for Medical Innovation and the Student Association for Pharmaceutical Innovation with support from the UiO Growth House. The students assist with checking quality and developing the medical content of the simulation tool. In the picture: student Live Fosmark, Mari Zimmermann and student Marta Eklo, photo: Hanna Victoria Steen Davidescu, MedWatch.
- Read interview with Mari Zimmermann and the two students on medwatch.no (for subscribers in Norwegian).
- Read about ?ira as 1 of 10 start-ups selected to participate in Impact Startup's accelerator programme this fall on impactstartup.no (in Norwegian).
From internship to scientific publication
In 2021, medical student Gudrun Reitan had an internship at Roche. This resulted in further work and a scientific publication in collaboration with the The Norwegian Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted, Oslo University Hospital, the University of Oslo and Roche with her as first author.
Apply for the Aleap bootcamp for early-phase entrepreneurs
Do you have a great idea for a health solution? Do you have your own health start-up but you're not sure how to take it to the next level? Or do you want to learn and understand about what it takes? Apply for a place at the Aleap bootcamp this fall. The UiO Growth House and the UiO and OUS technology transfer office Inven2 are partners.
Application deadline: 30 September
Contact us if you have an early-phase innovation idea!
We offer tailored counselling 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.