FORTHEM Immersive Event: Deep Dive into Innovation Collaboration and Academic Research Transfer, Jyväskylä, 12 - 14 March 2025
University of Jyväskylä will be hosting a three-day hybrid event from the 12th to the 14th March 2025, to collaboratively discuss, investigate, debate, and develop the various themes and subjects of research and innovation collaboration and transfer as well as effective academic-industrial partnership models.
We invite not only university students and staff members, but also all interested external stakeholders who have university and/or international collaboration in their interests. As a FORTHEM Immersive Event, participation online or in person is free of charge. The registration to the event is already closed, but it is possible for JYU staff members and students to join on the spot. As a hybrid event some parts of the programme will be streamed and participation in sessions will be possible online remotely.
We are welcoming colleagues from various FORTHEM Alliance partner universities: 3 participants from the University of Valencia (Spain), 2 from the University of Opole (Poland), 2 from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany), 2 from the University of Latvia and one from the University of Agder (Norway).
The two-and-a-half-day programme will consist of a variety of sessions prepared and delivered by JYU colleagues and external partners to take a deep dive into the issues relating to effective and productive R&I collaboration. The event is based at JYU in Lähde, and will also be held at the Startup Factory where on Thursday afternoon we will join forces with the FORTHEM Startup Day, which is a startup-related event organized twice a year in different entrepreneurship-related locations in Jyväskylä. The Startup Day is always open for FORTHEM Alliance universities both online and on-site!
Mayor Timo Koivisto, and Nina Rautiainen from the City of Jyväskylä join us to introduce and discuss the issues and current actions in this field from the City’s and Local Authority’s perspective.
We have contributions from Jouni-Pekka Hynynen and Taneli Minkkinen from the Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment to look at the bigger picture, the governmental perspective, and introduce these themes from the wider and even European perspective.
We will hear from the Startup Factory about the current support and networks in place for research and innovation commercialisation, and research to business themes. And from the private sector viewpoint we will have valuable contributions from the Central Finnish Chamber of Commerce, and from Crazy Town to introduce and open up the discussion of what the private sector needs and wants from effective and productive Academic research and innovation partnership.
Alongside all of this we will of course be hearing from JYU colleagues from the Research and Innovation Services (Sami Sopanen and Jarno Mikkonen) talking about funding opportunities, processes, and consortiums. If any or all of this sounds interesting to you, click on the link to register, and we will see you in person or online on the 12th to 14th of March!
Programme details are available on the event website.
