Calling All Entrepreneurial PhDs & Postdocs!
Date: 11 June 2025
Time: 17.00-20.00
Location: Lake Sides Auditorium
Food and drinks will be on us!
Are you curious about how your scientific expertise could be used to found a startup? Wondering what it takes to move from the lab to the business world?
Join us at our expertise-packed, interactive event where science meets entrepreneurship! Whether you are deep into your PhD or wrapping up your Postdoc, this is your chance to explore the exciting world of startups powered by science.
At the event, you will gain insights into the real-world challenges and triumphs of building a science-based company from our expert panel:
Vegar Lein Ausrød – Head of Toolbox at the Kitchen
Helle Neergaard – Professor of Entrepreneurship & Distinguished Senior Innovator 2025
Jens Vinge Nygaard – Associate Professor of Medical Biotechnology & Distinguished Senior Innovator 2025
Post-Event Social Activity: “Spin the Wheel”!
We will wrap up the day with a fun team-based quiz game covering different entrepreneurship-related topics. There will be prizes for the winning team. It is a great way to reinforce what you have learned, build connections and end the day on a high note!
The event is free. However, please sign up here: https://events.au.dk/theinnovationcatalystresearchmeetsstartups
We hope to see many of you there!
On 25-27 August 2025 PRIO, in collaboration with Nord University Business School, Center for Crisis Management and Collaboration, will host the course: Digitalizing public emergency communication: New technologies and Debates – Research School on Peace and Conflict
This course explores how digital tools enhance emergency communication among first responders and with the public, while also addressing challenges and opportunities presented by new communication technologies.
New digital tools for public emergency communication such as emergency apps for smartphones, location-based text messaging and cell broadcast emergency alerts offer advantages in terms of scale, reach and speed of communication, while also presenting new challenges to first responders, the general public and emergency planners. Key questions discussed in this course are: How can public emergency alerting systems warn citizens more quickly about threats like floods and fires? What are the opportunities and challenges of using social media to share information about emergencies? What is the best way to collect information form the public and how do people find the best and most reliable sources of information during emergencies? How do people use digital tools such as emergency mobile apps? What is helpful and what can go wrong with these tools?
The course is master-level 7,5 ECTS.
Apply here: https://fsweb.no/soknadsweb/login.jsf choose the option "Enkeltemner" and fill in the course code “ORG5017”.
The course is developed under the research collaboration DIGeMERGE: https://chanse.org/digemerge/
Application deadline: 1 July 2025.
Leading Innovation in Smart Health: Next-Generation Telehealth, Robotics, and Al in Healthcare
A Four-Day Applied Course for PhD Students focused on tech adoption, translation, and innovation within healthcare systems and research.
For further information please see this page.
AU Mentor PhD is an offer to PhD students from all four faculties at Aarhus University (Arts, Business and Social Sciences, Health and Science & Technology). The overall goal of the mentor programme is to bring you and the business community closer together in order to ease your prospective transition from university to a career outside of academia.
The mentors are primarily former PhDs from AU, who are now working outside academia.
From January 2016 the mentor programme will be running once a year with the following deadlines:
| Application deadline: | August 15th |
Kick-off: | October 15th |
For more information and registration, check out AU Career PhD's webpage on the mentor programme.
Are you more interested in a shorter engagement, AU Career PhD also offers Career Talks, which allows you to have a one-time meeting with a PhD profile now working outside academia. For more information, click here.
