PhD Innovation Day

 

💡 You’re doing your doctorate at an EELISA university?

💡 Your research topic is too good to go, after your PhD will be finished?

💡 It might even be something for a start-up adventure?

💡 But you don’t know yet. You need some nudging, some support and some feedback?

We would love to help you! Application deadline is July 25, 2025, EOD. With the form below.

We welcome 30 people; ~50:50 FAU:EELISA;

Depending on applications, we will select up to two participants per EELISA partner on a “first come, first serve”-basis.

Please clarify BEFORE your application with your local EELISA-team, whether they can assist you with travel expenses.

 

Date and Location
💡 Monday, September 22, 2025

⛳ Nuremberg, exact location tbd

💡 Lunch and soft drinks will be provided, as well as a lot of fun, know-how and great people!

 

Agenda Still work in progress – but it will most likely look like this:

09:00– 9:30: Welcome from the graduate center & Key Note

09:30 – 10:30: Lego Serious Play (Business idea or research focus)

10:30 – 11:45: Discuss & Exchange your Lego models

11:45 – 12:30: Role Model – Startup talk

12:30 – 13:15: Lunch

13:15 – 14:15: Know-how transfer/ patents/ IP

14:15 – 15:00: Role Model – Startup talk

15:00: – 16:15: Ideation workshop

16:15: – 17:00: Networking  &  Zollhof tour

 

Contact
Melanie Viebahn – EELISA project manager @FAU – contact for organisational and technical issues

Iman Hamadi – founders support office @FAU

David Schkade – EELISA project manager @FAU

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    *The faculty/institute/chair where I am doing my doctorate

    *The subject in which I am doing my doctorate

    *The topic of my dissertation

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