Medical Innovation Day is a two-track event, where you can choose between two types of active participation; the Challenge track or the Innovative Ideas track.

Who can participate?

• All PhD, Master and Bachelor students enrolled at Aarhus University regardless of disciplines, who wish to
  1. contribute to solving a challenge or
  2. have ideas for application within the health sector
• All postgraduate research fellows/young researchers and senior researchers at Aarhus University with ideas for application within the health sector

Aim:

The aim of Medical Innovation Day is to:

• train students to work innovatively with real cases from relevant companies
• train students to pitch their ideas to and receive feedback from a panel of potential collaborators
• give students an insight to a career outside academia

Learning outcomes:

Case competition skills, methods for defining a relevant unmet need for innovation, methods for generating and validating good ideas, entrepreneurial methods, methods for presentation and pitching, network with people from the industry and interdisciplinary teams.

Content:

In the Challenge track (2 days), companies present relevant and real-life challenges to students who will work strategically and practice-oriented with the cases and come-up with innovative solutions.

In the Innovative Ideas track (1 day), students and (young and senior) researchers present their own medical innovative projects and receive advice from leading investors in Danish medical innovative projects. 

As part of the track programme, all participants will get access to inspiring talks from university and health sector representatives, and informal networking with company representatives, peers etc.

Language:

The event will be held in English

ECTS:

All students (PhD, Master, Bachelor) attending the Challenge track(2 days) are eligible for obtaining 0.6 ECTS credits. Common sessions, talks etc. for all participants at Medical Innovation Day will be included in the programme.

All PhD students attending the Innovative Ideas track (1 day) can include their presentation as either:
A) a disseminaiton activity to be registered in MyPhD (see Teaching experience (au.dk) for calculation model etc.) or
B) as a conference corresponding to 1 ECTS credit (see ECTS for other external activities (au.dk) for more info).

Instructors:

• Challenge track: Ida Grønborg, Cacta (external), Pernille Kølbæk (Dept. of Clinical Medicine), clinical experts (Roche etc.)
• Innovative Ideas track: Ulf Simonsen (Dept. of Biomedicine) and Simon T. Vistisen (Dept. of Clinical Medicine)
• Common sessions: Moderators

Number of participants:

Challenge track: 25 participants
Innovative Ideas track: 12 participants

Dates and times:

Challenge track: 24 (pre-event, 9:00-16:00) and 27 October 2022 (09:00-17:00)
Innovative Ideas track: 27 October 2022 (09:00-17:00)

Place:

Aarhus University Hospital, Palle Juul-Jensens Boulevard 99, entrance G6, DK-8200 Aarhus N

Course fee:

Participation is free of charge, and includes full board.

Application deadline:

3 October 2022

Application:

Sign up at Medical Innovation Day 2022 (au.dk) (open until 3 Oct 2022)