Newsletter May 2025
The UiO Growth House – UiO's innovation unit for life sciences, health, and technology
Sign up for HealthHACK 2025 – two days, one challenge, NOK 4000 prizes
Are you a PhD candidate or postdoc at UiO? Join our HealthHACK 10–11 September 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 and Medtronic.
Read more about the HealthHACK and sign up
Registration deadline: 29 August
20 places per university, first come – first served!
Student innovation: Get funding to kickstart your idea!
Are you a bachelor’s or master’s student at the University of Oslo with a good idea? The student incubator Insj and the UiO Growth House are offering up to NOK 25 000 NOK in funding to help you get started!
Read more about the funding and apply
Application deadline: 30 May
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
The programme with inspirational talk, role model talk and companies that are attending the networking will be out beginning of June.
Collaborators: The Life Science Cluster and Nansen Neuroscience Network
Save the dates for meeting places for academia and industry
13 August 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
22 October: The innovation conference Science Impact
We are hosting UiO's innovation conference Science Impact for the third time in collaboration with several internal and external partners. Topics: neuroscience, antimicrobial resistance, cancer, materials science, social innovation, and women's health. The conference is a part of Oslo Innovation Week.
Venue: Oslo Science Park
Time: 8–17
Collaborators: Inven2, SINTEF, The Life Science Cluster, Nansen Neuroscience Network, Centre for Global Sustainability, Department of informatics, Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology and SPARK Social Innovation.
NEW COLUMN: News from projects that have received support
Digital learning resource on fossils and evolution
Follow researchers to Svalbard where they map fossils that can tell how life evolved after the great mass extinction 252 million years ago. The learning resource has been developed by The Norwegian Centre for Science Education and the Natural History Museum at UiO and NRK.
The UiO Growth House and UiO support both commercial and non-commercial projects. This is an example of the latter. The UiO Growth House evaluates applications together with representatives from the innovation ecosystem.
– The evaluation committee believed that this project could have societal impact and get young people interested in science. The project can make science exciting for students and teach students to do research, says senior innovation adviser at the UiO Growth House, Ivar Bergland.
He says that in this project, the UiO Growth House has given some advice on how to write a good innovation application and invited project manager Wenche Erlien to a workshop for digital solutions where she was very active and contributed by sharing challenges.
– We are very happy that the UiO Growth House has believed in our project. The financial support made it possible to go to Svalbard to film fieldwork, which was important to be able to convey how researchers work and think in the field, show what fossils they find and how they interpret this into a story about the development of life, says Erlien.
– We have also benefited greatly from participating in the workshop on digital solutions organised by the UiO Growth House, where we have received guidance on various tools and how we can focus our project on the target group.
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Published 26 May