Co-Creating Innovation

Co-Creating Innovation 9-13 September 2024 at Universität Hamburg

The European University Alliance for Global Health (EUGLOH) is arranging a co-creation week for Master and PhD students and R1 and R2 Early Career Researchers to co-design a project, product or concept based on a challenge related to Global Health together with representatives from one of our non-university partners, who will be present throughout the week:

1. Helmholtz Centers: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / HEREON / GEOMAR
2. Siemens Healthineers AG
3. Virchow Foundation for Global Health
4. Konrad Adenauer Foundation
5. Career & Qualification Center

Learning objectives

This activity focuses on the exchange and co-creation between an international, young academic generation and partners in society and industry. By jointly working on a challenge provided by our non-university partners to develop a prototype, the co-creation week aims to expand the European University Alliance beyond its academic nucleus. The different academic and non-academic perspectives on a given challenge from the three major fields of knowledge transfer identified through an extensive evaluation across all nine partners

1. Entrepreneurship and Innovation
2. Engagement and Co-Creation
3. Employability and Qualification

will contribute

• to the expansion of the pool of knowledge within academia,
• to the enhancement of cooperation between university and industry/society,
• to opening (career) pathways beyond academia,
• to establishing a trajectory towards a EUGLOH think tank,
• to making universities more transparent and approachable,
• to the best-practice exchange on how to foster collaboration between academia and society/industry,
• to highlighting Global Health as an interdisciplinary field.

Competences

• Knowledge into action
• Creativity & problem solving
• Communiation & collaboration

Requirements

The applications must provide and will be assessed by means of

• the field of study or scientific work in relation to the challenges and/or Global Health,
• a short letter of motivation (1-2 pages) with regard to the challenges and
• the indication of two preferred challenges from the list below (priority 1 and 2) to support the establishment of internationally diverse teams in each challenge.

List of challenges (please select and rank 2 when applying):

1. Atmo-Box Challenge: Start-up Call for Ocean Exploration, Helmholtz Centers: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / HEREON / GEOMAR (Entrepreneurship and Innovation)
2. Identification of Potential Markets and Business Opportunities for a 40 kW Average Power X-Ray Source, Siemens Healthineers AG (Entrepreneurship and Innovation)
3. SDG – Intersectoral and Interdisciplinary Cooperation in Global Health, Virchow Foundation for Global Health (Engagement and Co-Creation)
4. Digital Health and AI Solutions as Instruments for improving Global Health, Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Engagement and Co-Creation)
5. Academia and Beyond, Career and Qualification Center (Employability and Qualification)

Priority will be given to applicants with fewer opportunities.

• Number of participants: 40 (2 Master and PhD students as well as 2 R1 and R2 Early Career Researchers per partner institution may be financed through EUGLOH mobilities)
• Certificate/ECTS: Certificate of participation
• Language: English

This activity is part of Work Package 6.