The courses are free for UiO employees. Please contact training@growthhouse.uio.no, if you are interested in a course, but are outside the UiO system.
Foundation level courses
IDEA course?
How to identify a good innovation idea from your research data
Have you ever wondered if there is an idea for an innovation project or even a start-up buried in your piles of research data? Or, how to know if that idea is any good? Then this interactive and reflective workshop is for you!
Upcoming course
13 October, 9:00–12:30, registration opens 10 August?
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Step-up level courses
Idea to Innovation (I2I) course
How to turn your idea into a successful innovation project
This hands-on workshop introduces you to the tools you need to develop an academic research project into a successful innovation project. We’ll also cover funding opportunities and innovation grant writing as a potential next step for developing your project further.
Upcoming course?
24–26 November, 09:00–16:00, registration opens 10 August?
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Grant writing course
You perform excellent research and know the impact it can have on society. You already have solid data and a plan for mobilising your research into real-world products and services, but you need money to do just that. Join us for this ? day workshop, and we'll share the nuts and bolts of innovation grant writing with you. You will work on your own innovation project during this workshop.
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- Learning outcomes: You will learn how to build and tailor the story of your innovation project to different audiences, including funding agencies.
- Prerequisites: Non, but haven taken our Foundation level – IDEA course and Step-up level – Idea-to-Innovation (I2I) course described above gives a good basis before grant writing.
- Potential next steps from this course: Start working 1:1 with an innovation adviser at the UiO Growth House and apply for internal innovation funding from UiO and/or commercialisation funding from The Research Council of Norway. If you have already secured the first innovation funding and are eligible, you also could reach out to the UiO Growth House to discuss how your project might fit into one of the European Innovation Council (EIC) funding schemes.
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Other courses
We also have other courses such as the School of Health Innovation and Aleap bootcamp and hackathons in the pipeline.?
All courses will be announced on this webpage.