BioTechMed-Graz is the strategy and development platform of the three partner universities whose aim is to link up researchers in the medium term in different research areas and disciplines in the field of “Research for Health”. This is to be pursued in such a way as to promote top-level innovative interdisciplinary research and to develop scientific topics through which unique selling propositions can be achieved.
BioTechMed-Graz wants to create an interdisciplinary atmosphere of innovation and cooperation and aims to bring about medium-term location effects.
BioTechMed-Graz “FutureSpace” is one of the main formats to produce this networking and to create a shared “knowledge space” in the medium term for all the researchers involved.
BioTechMed-Graz “Future Space” is the initiative’s innovation workshop in which researchers from different research areas and disciplines come together in the framework of a one-and-a-half-day creative event to exchange information about the most important findings and trends in their research areas, and to experiment together with innovative project ideas and develop them in interdisciplinary groups.
In a new and creative event format, Future Space enables researchers to:
- Present research focuses and the challenges and trends of the next few years to a broad BioTechMed-Graz Community;
- Make new contacts to research groups in the Graz location;
- Work in interdisciplinary teams on complex problems in the “Research for Health” subject area;
- Be granted access to diverse know-how and specific methods and infrastructures that transcend the boundaries of individual disciplines;
- Present new project ideas directly to university executive management;
- Receive specific seed funding for project applications.
To supplement the usual working processes carried out at universities, in Future Space a freer format of information exchange will be created in which ideas for innovative, future-oriented projects can be experimented with and concrete cooperation projects developed without restrictions. The boundaries between individual universities, disciplines and research areas are no longer an issue, and the common research projects can stand alone at centre stage in the Research for Health field.
In addition to the abundance of project ideas which can emerge and be pursued by researchers autonomously, the most promising projects will be chosen together in the community and presented to the rectorates of the three universities.
Each of the best three projects will be awarded 10,000 euros in seed funding to enable an application to be submitted. Additionally, a further grant of 10,000 euros is planned for the first project to be developed in the framework of Future Space which secures third-party funding.
Event details
6th May 2015, 11:30am to approx. 8pm
(The event will conclude with a buffet.)
7th May 2015, 9am to 6pm.
Seifenfabrik Veranstaltungszentrum
Angergasse 41-43
8010 Graz
Conditions of Participation
- Membership of one of the three partner universities in the framework of BioTechMed-Graz.
- Research in one of the four research areas with the focus on “Research for Health”.
Places are limited per university and research area, and allocations will be made on a first-come, first-served basis. For this reason, we would like to ask you to register as soon as possible.
