HealthHACK 2025 – two days, one challenge, NOK 4000 prizes
Are you a student at NMBU? Join our HealthHACK to boost your academic confidence, meet the industry, network across universities, take part in a creative competition and explore the intersection between health and technology. Topic: heart health.
20 places per university – first come, first served!
- All NMBU are welcome to sign up.
- At the event you will work in interdisciplinary groups with students from OsloMet and UiO.
- HealthHACK 2025 challenges you to use technology to discover new solutions for heart health.
- Each member of the winning group will receive a gift card worth NOK 4000.
At HealthHACK, you’ll gain the skills to solve real work-related challenges. In two days, you and your group will work on challenges related to heart health.
This year's partners are the pharmaceutical company Novartis and the health technology company Medtronic. The companies are experts in the field and will provide relevant challenges that you will solve. Additionally, each group will have access to a mentor from one of the universities who provides guidance and facilitates the innovation process.
Have you heard of hackathons and think that they involve coding and programming? At HealthHACK, no programming knowledge is needed. The challenges are broad and socially relevant. They are solved without programming.
Programme
It's two days filled with collaboration, networking and free food! Race against the clock with one mission: Solve a real problem.
Day One 10 September
- 08:30 Registration and kick off HealthHACK with breakfast.
- 09:00 Get to know Medtronic and Novartis.
- 09:30 An introduction to design thinking – a valuable method for HealthHACK and your future career.
by Joseph Makokha, UiO Growth House - 10:00 Work in groups begins. Experts from Novartis and Medtronic are available for the first hour to answer questions and provide insight.
- 13:00 Lunch break.
- 13:30 Continue working on your challenge.
- 16:00 Group check-in.
- 16.30 Presentation with Terje Lindberg from Company Stories. He shares valuable tips on how your team can deliver a compelling pitch.
- 17:00 Dinner.
- 17:45 Meet with mentors for group check-ins.
Day Two 11 September
- 08:30 Breakfast will be served.
- 09:10 Continue working on your challenge.
- 12:00 Lunch break.
- 13:00 Continue working on your challenge.
- 15:00 Pitching presentation.
- 16:30 Jury meeting.
- 17:15 Award and closing ceremony.
Questions?
Please contact the StartUpSmia at NMBU eva.nagelhus@nmbu.no
Organizer
StartupSmia at Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), UiO Growth House at the University of Oslo, Intelligent Health at OsloMet, Novartis and Medtronic