How to build successful business-academia cooperation?

We have the pleasure to invite you to our Workshop organised by Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research with the support of the European Commission and the EURAXESS European Network.

The European Commission supports building stronger linkages between business and academia through a series of initiatives.

Closer links between business and academia can:

• encourage the transfer and sharing knowledge;

• create long-term partnerships and opportunities;

• drive innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity.

EURAXESS, a European network supporting the mobility and career development of researchers, is implementing practical solutions that work towards realising the objectives above.

The present Workshop will present these practical solutions and will initiate dialogue for their further development. The Workshop is addressing representatives of businesses - managers and recruiters- especially with strong focus on research, development and innovation, as well as head-hunters and hiring managers looking for highly qualified, high profile candidates with specialized knowledge and research, development and innovation capacity beyond the national market.

As part of the event, we are going to showcase success stories of mutually beneficial business-academia cooperation and we will introduce you EURAXESS services - recruitment, advertising, and partner search- designed with the aim to improve inter-sectoral mobility.

Agenda

9:00 -9:30

Registration, Welcome Coffee and Tea

9.30-10.00

Opening– Business and Academia Cooperation – A Local Perspective

Presenter: Jason Weedon – Director of Philanthropy and Strategic Partnerships

Central European University

10:00 -10:30

Introduction – Strengthening  ties between business and academia

The need for intersectoral mobility

Presenter: TBC, Quantum Leap

10:30– 11:00

The EURAXIND Project – The European Perspective examining intersectoral mobility-

Presenter: Ylva Huber – Information officer EURAXESS

FFG- Austrian Research Promotion Agency

11:00 - 11.30

Academia – Industry Success Story  - Start-up

Case Study – Employer Perspective – WaterScope

Presenter: Keve Papp – International Development

WaterScope International

10.35 – 11:00

Academia – Industry Success Story - Large industrial player

Solving concrete innovation challenges together: the StarShip program

Presenter:  Judit Hegedüs - InnoSTARS Project Manager

EIT- Health

11:30 – 12:00

EURAXESS Services for employers

EURAXESS – Industry user interface (Employment Engagement Toolkit)

Presenter: Xavier Eekhout- International Projects

Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology

12:00 -12:30

Panel Discussion – How to build successful business-academia cooperation?

12:30

Business Lunch and Networking