Innovation opportunities: Shaping Your Research Career in Agroecology
In collaboration between AU AGRO and Kitchen, we invite researchers who wish to take a proactive and strategic approach to shaping their access to innovation and entrepreneurship.
Participants will gain insights into how to scan and navigate different types of innovation funding relevant to agroecology, from national public and private funding schemes to international opportunities. The day will also address how to position your research for funding that supports collaborative, applied and impact-driven solutions, and will focus on building a broad and adaptable skill set, supporting you to engage with a variety of opportunities across the research and innovation ecosystem.
Programme of the day
| 10:00- 10:30: | Arrivaland Networking Coffee and Bread |
| 10:30 – 10:40: | Welcome & Introduction to the day |
| 10:40 – 11.00: | Introduction to Kitchen |
| 11:00 – 11:45: | Why Innovation is Important by TECH’s Distinguished Senior Innovator Associate professors Jens Vinge & Christoffer Karoff |
| 11:45 – 12:30: | Lunch Break and network |
| 12:30 - 13:30: | A practical approach – innovation exercise |
| 13:30 – 14:00: | Alexa Peterson, Deep Green Innovator – personal experience |
| 14:00 – 14:30: | Wrap-up/ Tour inKitchen, Aarhus University |
| 14:30–15:00: | 1:1s with KITCHEN – sign-up via the registration link |
When & Where
November 12, 2026, 10:00 – 15:00
Aarhus University, Building 1860, Universitetsbyen 76, 8000 Aarhus C
Organisers
Isabella Marie Leong, Funding coordinator, Department of Agroecology
Anne Krog Ingerslev, Funding coordinator, Department of Agroecology
Lisa Mejlvang Lindgaard, Business Developer, Kitchen, Aarhus University
Conny Lund Tegtmeier, Kitchen, Aarhus University