R & I Collaboration Universities and Business – Do’s and Don’ts, Possibilities and Impossibilities

In this event, experts with experience in university and business collaborations will debate about lessons learned and the skills needed to turn today's impossibilities into future possibilities.

In the quest for collaborative research and innovation projects and supportive EU rules, actions and funding, universities and business seek collaborations and team-up to form consortia. However, job and soft skills are needed to make such co-operations successful. Partners meet unexpected challenges and opportunities along the way. Relations between crucial people in the process are vital, and different expectations need to be brought in line. National contact points and innovation and grants offices play a match-making role, and funding programmes like Eureka (e.g. Eurostars), EIC, EIT or other Horizon Europe consortium grants bring support to innovative project partners.

In this event, experts with long-standing experience in university and business collaborations will debate with the audience the lessons learned and the skills needed to turn today's impossibilities into future possibilities.

Agenda:

15.45 walk-in and free self-registration
16.00 welcome (Niels Schreuder, entrepreneur & chair Holland House)
16.05 introduction (Pim de Boer, EU Liaison, VU Amsterdam & Aurora Universities)
16.10 keynote presentations followed by a discussion (moderator Pim de Boer). Speakers:

1. Davide Iannuzzi (Chief Impact officer, VU Amsterdam)
2. Barbara Buchenau (Vice-rector Education & Research, University Duisburg-Essen)
3. Anna Panagopoulou (Director Directorate A on ERA & Innovation, DG RTD)

17.20 discussion with a panel of keynote speakers and the audience (moderator Pedro Jose Marron, Vice-Rector Innovation, University Duisburg-Essen - TBC)

1. Two-three brief pitches on experiences related to collaboration:
   * Pieter Custers, Director of Business Development & Community Development, Brightlands NL
   * Christa Hooijer, Director R&I, TNO, Netherlands
2. Reflections by the panel and by the audience

17.50 wrap-up and take-home message (Davide Iannuzzi)

18.00 networking drinks

This event is organised by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Aurora Universities in collaboration with the Holland House, the University of Duisburg-Essen, and the University of Maastricht.

More information regarding registration and purchasing tickets is here.

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