Oxford to hold its first AIMday meeting

So far, more than 20 questions have been submitted to Oxford’s first AIMday event.

AIMday (Academic Industry Meeting day) is a simple but unique meeting format – one topic, one hour, one group of experts. This gives efficient meetings where businesses and organisations can bring up current and relevant issues in specific areas with researchers from different scientific fields. AIMday gives both businesses and universities opportunities to find new solutions, connections, expertise and collaborations.

For a while now, the University of Oxford has had its eyes on Uppsala University’s AIMday concept and two years ago they attended an AIMday meeting hosted by the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

This June, the University of Oxford will host its first AIMday meeting on the topic of Digital Health. The university wants to understand how its knowledge and research can contribute to solving different problems and challenges in e-healthcare and big data through collaboration with business and industry.

‘We look forward to introducing Uppsala University’s AIMday initiative in Oxford and expect equally impressive results’, says Chandra Ramanujan, Business Relationship Manager at Isis Innovation – Oxford’s organisation for commercialisation and technology transfer.

‘So far, more than 20 questions from ten or so companies have been submitted for the meeting on 20 June’, says Anette Persson Stache, project coordinator at Uppsala University Innovation, who has provided knowledge and advice towards the meeting.

AIMday has been developed by Uppsala University Innovation and is successfully being used, since several years back, both at Uppsala University and other higher education institutions, both in Sweden and abroad. In May this year, Uppsala University Innovation organized an AIMday event in Brazil where both Swedish and Brazilian researchers and businesses participated on the topic of Smart Industries.

At Uppsala University, AIMday events have been held since 2008 in areas such as welfare, cancer, materials, diagnostics, and ageing, resulting in several research collaborations.