TECHTRANSFER COMMUNICATION & EVENTS ‘Connecting Science and Society’ is the mission of VUB TechTransfer. To emphasise the fact that we can only do this together with the research groups, companies, other knowledge centers and all our stakeholders, we changed this tagline into ‘Together we connect science and society’ in 2020. This is also in line with the new ‘TheWorldNeedsYou’ campaign of the VUB. The TechTransfer Communication & Events cell informs the research community of all support and other aspects concerning the valorisation of their research and brings the university’s knowledge and expertise under the attention of companies, governmental organizations and society. We also take care of connecting parties through the organisation of (digital) events. With the final purpose to create a positive impact on society. Due to the COVID-19 crisis we had to go radically digital. MS Teams became a new daily tool. Events, info sessions and workshops were organised digitally. Recordings were often available afterwards.
Some of the realisations of 2020:
Communication site on WeAreVUB: on this new VUB intranet a communication site was launched for the Vice-rectorate Innovation & Industry Relations and for VUB TechTransfer. News items are posted regularly and are also available through the WeAreVUB-app.
vubtechtransfer.be: the website is the central point of all our information and is held up to date with news items, events, info on project calls and crisis communication on COVID-19.
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Info sessions on project calls: the communication cell supported 6 info sessions that were organised by our business developers for different project calls (VLAIO, FWO, Innoviris).
