IndTech Brokerage Event 2025: Empowering Young Researchers to Secure EU Funding
On April 1st, the IndTech Graduate School hosted a brokerage event, bringing together PhD students, researchers, and industry professionals to explore new research collaborations for Horizon Europe funding proposals.
The event opened with a guest lecture by Malin Rosqvist (RISE) on “The Fine Art of Building a Project Consortium during a European Brokerage Event.” Malin delivered an insightful session on how to form strong partnerships during brokerage events, emphasizing the importance of strategic networking and effectively presenting project ideas to attract the right collaborators.
A key part of the event was the presentation of research proposals by IndTech PhD students. Each group introduced their innovative ideas, tackling major challenges in various fields:
- NextGenCEA – Advancing controlled environment agriculture
- ReIWES – Improving reliability in wind energy systems
- CEG-AI – Trustworthy AI in cloud, edge & IoT applications
- CL4-INDUSTRY – Cognitive augmentation in advanced manufacturing
The pitches led to engaging discussions and valuable feedback, paving the way for future collaborations.
Participants actively engaged in matchmaking and networking sessions, connecting with potential partners, discussing research synergies, and exploring funding opportunities. These sessions played a crucial role in strengthening ties between academia and industry.
The day concluded with an inspiring guest lecture by Professor Hans Hansson, “Get Funding or Die – The Secrets of Writing a Successful Funding Application.” His session provided practical insights into crafting strong proposals and maximizing the chances of securing European research funding.
This event was just the beginning! The next step is to transform these ideas into concrete research projects and funding applications. Stay tuned for updates on these exciting collaborations!
A huge thank you to all participants, speakers, and organizers for making this event a success.
This event is affiliated with the IndTech Graduate School course: Writing a Horizon European Project Proposal
Course information
The purpose of the course is for the doctoral students to get involved and gain experience in leading research applications to Horizon Europe.
The course includes:
Lectures on Horizon Europe and methods for coordinating and writing applications for collaborative, industry-research applications. Training to acquire skills for and experience of Horizon Europe and method for coordinating and writing applications. To get the PhD students to coordinate and lead an application, involve companies and researchers. To write an application that can be submitted to the course. Create an account on the portal, how to find a topic (Topic) through the “seek funding” function, reflect on how to create a consortium, actually do this, and in writing: how to meet the Section 1 criteria and SMART objectives, How to formulate outcomes and wider impact – vs results, how to write so that the evaluator can follow the thread in each direction, how to formulate work packages, familiarizing with the WBS.
IndTech Partner Volvo sponsors this course through Volvo APP funding.
Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is a world-leading manufacturer of construction machinery such as wheel loaders, articulated haulers, and excavators. Volvo CE has a long track record of collaboration with MDU.
