22 October 08:15-09:00Umeå Biotech Incubator, Conference room "Skogen"

Welcome to a UBI House breakfast & seminar at Tvistevägen 48, in conference room "Skogen". UBI offers breakfast from 8.15, and the seminar starts at 8.30. 

Speaker: Martin Rosvall, IceLab Director. 
Seminar: ”How to build a strong multidisciplinary research environment"

About: How can life stay healthy when the world gets tough? How do bacteria beat antibiotics, crops endure drought, and ecosystems cope with climate change?
At IceLab at Umeå university, researchers from molecular biology, plant physiology, ecology, physics, mathematics, and computing science study these questions together. We combine experiments, network inference, and dynamical modeling to explore how living systems respond to stress.

In this talk, Martin Rosvall shares how IceLab grew from a small initiative in 2010 into a research environment with PhD and postdoc programs, new principal investigators, and national funding.
He focuses on what makes it work in practice: a clear shared question, a few simple formats that turn half-formed ideas into funded projects (lunch pitches, hackathons, postdoc and graduate programs), and a culture built on psychological safety and "Yes, and …”.


Registration deadline (for breakfast): October 16. 

Participation fee: This event is sponsored by Umeå Biotech Incubator (UBI) with support from the European Union. There is no actual fee for participating. For delegates from the industry, state-aid/de-minimis will be accounted for corresponding to 50 SEK per person.

State aid & de-minimis: Umeå Biotech Incubator is obliged to account for activities they arrange, and support they provide, that are directed to specific companies or a group of companies where the receiving companies do not pay market price for the participation. The value of this support is accounted for as state-aid. 
Small amounts of State aid (‘de minimis’ aid) are exempted from State aid control, as they are deemed to have no impact on competition and trade in the internal market of the European Union (EU). De minimis aid indeed refers to small amounts of State aid to undertakings (companies) that do not have to be notified to the European Commission by the EU Member States.
The maximum amount is € 300,000 for each undertaking over 3 years.
De minimis can also be granted to large companies that are not entitled to larger sums of state-aid under Article 22. 

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