Welcome to

Innovation Day Upper Rhine

Inspiring plenary sessions, impactful workshops and targeted one-to-one meetings for technology and knowledge transfer.

For this 1st trinational event, 12 universities of the Upper Rhine and the 100 company partners of KTUR Project invite you in partnership with DeepTech Tour of Bpifrance for a whole day of exchanges, knowledge sharing and meetings on technology transfer in the Upper Rhine area.

During one full day, the event will bring together researchers, start-ups, companies and technology transfer offices from the Upper Rhine valley and beyond. It will focus on major drivers of knowledge and technological transfer, fundings and partnerships/collaborations with 3 dedicated tracks (researchers, start-ups, companies) around :

- 3 plenary sessions,
- More than 15 workshops,
- A "Walk of the Best" to highlight innovative start-ups from the Upper Rhine,
- More than 500 business meetings

Topics addressed?

• Deeptech
• Industrial transition
• Digital transition
• Sustainable development
• Health innovation
• Social innovation

Why participate?

• As a researcher:
  
  • enhance your research activities and bring your research results to a concrete conclusion
  • find potential partners and application to your technology during effective one-to one meetings
  • find funding and create new collaborations and synergies
• As a start-up:
  • find new business and markets for your cutting-edge technology
  • generate fresh leads and meet new contacts in a time and cost-efficient way
  • initiate and arrange promising pre-scheduled one-to-one meetings at the event
• As a company:
  • publish and showcase your products, projects, services, or business needs to event participants
    
  • stay ahead of your competitors by using innovations developed by university research units
  • initiate and arrange promising pre-scheduled one-to-one meetings at the event
• As a student:
  
  • use this unique time for networking
  • get inspired by innovative technologies & business opportunities and start-up success stories
• As a founder:
  • come and find the start-ups of tomorrow
  • initiate and arrange promising pre-scheduled one-to-one meetings at the event
  • find partners to discuss new technology and innovative solutions

The top 5 objectives to make your stay a success:

• Meet partners and potential customers
• Discover new products, services & cutting-edge technologies
• Prepare projects
• Meet new suppliers
• Get Information about latest trends and cutting-edge technologies from university research units

Costs : Participation is free of charge but registration is mandatory since the number of participants is limited.

An event organized within the framework of the KTUR project – Knowledge Transfer Upper Rhine

Co-funded by the European Union through the Interreg V Upper Rhine funding programme, the European Union has been providing financial and human resources for the KTUR project since October 2019 for a duration of 3 years. The aim of the project is to set up joint structures and activities in the field of Knowledge and Technology Transfer in the Rhine Valley region.

An event organised in the framework of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union