Medical Innovation Day

Medical Innovation Day is an annual event, which brings together students, researchers and business representatives to exchange ideas and think up solutions for health challenges of the future.

In addition to inspiring talks and informal networking, the event is running in two separate tracks. The Challenge Track introduces students (PhD, Master, Bachelor) from all participating faculties to real-life challenges from companies and organisations, while the Innovative Ideas Track introduces companies to fresh new ideas from the scientific community (PhD, postdoc and senior researchers).

The winning team/presenter(s) will be rewarded - the winning prize will be announced in the days up to the next event!

Here's what Jacob Thyrsted, PhD student at Health and part of the challenge track winning team of 2020, thinks of being part of Medical Innovation Day:

Two tracks - Challenges and Innovative Ideas

Students and company representatives are invited to participate in two independent tracks:

Challenge Track (students eligible for ECTS)
PhD, Master and Bachelor students collaborate to come up with solutions to specific challenges presented by a participating company working within the health care sector in the broadest sense.
- More info about the two-day challenge track
Innovative Ideas Track (students eligible for ECTS)
Companies are presented with new findings and ideas from PhD students, post docs, and senior researchers alike, in order to spark collaboration on further development, financing or marketing of specific ideas.
- More info about the one-day Innovative Ideas Track

Lots of topics

We welcome cases and ideas with any relation to health in the broadest sense.

Be it directly related areas such as:

Drugs
Equipment for treatment/analysis
Medical devices and aids for patients and health care personnel
New services aimed at patients and health care personnel

Or more indirectly related areas such as:

New methods of production, treatment or evaluation
Development of new policies
New ways of organizing treatments and analysis
New methods of collaboration
Alternative methods of financing
New uses of big data

A collaborative event

Medical Innovation Day is hosted by the Graduate School of Health (GSH) and its three doctoral programmes:

ClinFO (clinical medicine, forensic medicine and dentistry and oral health)
Biomedicine
Public Health

The event is arranged by a large group including researchers and lecturers from Technical Sciences and Aarhus BSS (see members of the Organizing Committee in the right sidebar)

Who is invited?

Companies
All companies working within the health sector or faced with a health related challenge. Companies are invited to participate whether or not they have entered a case for Challenge Track.
Students
All PhD, Master and Bachelor students enrolled at Aarhus University regardless of disciplines, who wish to contribute to solving a challenge.
Researchers
All researchers with ideas for application within the health sector.