From 17-19 April 2018, the LISTO project met in Montevideo, Uruguay to start work package 2: university-company relations. We were hosted by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) at Universidad ORT Uruguay, the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Ithaka) at the Catholic University of Uruguay and the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII). Over the course of three days, the partner universities exchanged their experience and strategies for engaging with companies and took part in a training of the AIMday method. During 2018/19, the partners will host their own pilot AIMdays.
On the first day, the project discussed examples of successful/failed collaboration between universities and companies, strategies for managing different expectations as well as how to activate diverse stakeholders inside and outside of academia.
Video summary of the group sessions on workshop day 1:
Participaron: Universidad de Uppsala, Universidad de Groninga, Universidad Federal de Pernambuco, Universidad Federal de Río Grande del Sur, Universidad de San Pablo, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Universidad Católica del Uruguay y @ANIIuy pic.twitter.com/u8NmN67N0Y
— Universidad ORT Uruguay (@UniversidadORT) 17. April 2018
During the second day, Anette Persson-Stache and Ernesto Gutiérrez from Uppsala University Innovation introduced the AIMday methodology (www.aimday.se) as a way for academic scientists and organisations to make contacts and exchange knowledge. By matching organizations need for new knowledge with academic expertise, AIMday brings understanding and new perspectives to actual problems. The AIMday method is centered on small group discussions where a specific question is discussed during one hour by scientists and experts from several different disciplines.
The third workshop day was dedicated to the individual AIMday planning. Each of the seven Latin American partner universities has picked a topic for a pilot AIMday which they will plan and host in 2018/19. The topics range from water, material science, dairy production, biotechnology, production processes to food waste management. The LISTO project will evaluate the experience of organizing the pilot AIMdays and bring all partners together for a concluding conference in Uppsala in April/May 2019.
Video summary of the individual AIMday planning groups:
And it’s a wrap of the #montevideomeeting of the #LISTOProject. Hard work and a lot of fun to bring universities and companies closer together and strengthen collaboration pic.twitter.com/lON9Ds2vSO
— IthaKa (@CentroIthaKa) 19. April 2018
During the meeting, the participants used the Twitter hashtag #listoproject to spread the word about the project.
Several partner university websites and news outlets reported about the LISTO workshop:
- Uppsala University: New cooperation project with Latin America on innovation and entrepreneurship
- Universidad National de Córdoba: Proyecto LISTO, la Universidad junto a la innovación y el emprendedorismo
- Universidad Católica del Uruguay: #MontevideoMeeting en la UCU
- Universidad ORT Uruguay: Primera actividad del proyecto LISTO, cofinanciado por la Unión Europea, con la Universidad ORT Uruguay como anfitriona
- Online news portal www.180.com.uy: Nueve universidades del mundo se reunieron para mejorar el vínculo empresa-academia
- Montevideo Portal: Nueve universidades del mundo se reunieron en la ORT para mejorar el vínculo empresa-academia
- Interview with Ernesto Gutiérrez (UU) and Enrique Topolansky (ORT) on Radio Sarandí 690 (Audio Podcast)
(AHORA) En @Vivalatarde690 @ETopolansky Dtor. del Centro de Innovación @UniversidadORT y Ernesto Gutierrez de la Of. de Innovación de @uppsalauni. El proyecto LISTO es una actividad de cooperación en innovación, emprendedurismo y relación academia-industria pic.twitter.com/kXA3yVE0UB
— Sarandí 690 (@RadioSarandi690) 24. April 2018
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