GMU Inaugurates 'Science4Business - Nauka dla Biznesu' Project
Innovation on the Waves – Creativity and Consortium Collaboration in Practice within the Development Incubator
At the beginning of July 2025, the kick-off meeting began for the 'Science4Business - Nauka dla Biznesu' Development Incubator project conducted by the GMU Technology Transfer Office as part of a five-member consortium also including Warmia and Mazury University in Olsztyn, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, the Institute of Horticulture – National Research Institute, and Security Technology Institute MORATEX.
The inauguration of the event was led by Professor Tomasz Tarasiuk – Deputy Rector for Internationalisation, Cooperation and Development, who from the outset placed particular emphasis on the strength of diversity and the unique character of each consortium partner. He also indicated that the partnership guarantees a great deal of potential and enables each of the partners to contribute their own competencies, experience, creating a significant synergy effect. Dr Magdalena Kukowska-Kaszuba, Director of the Technology Transfer Office, reminded those gathered of the aims and assumptions of the joint project, clearly highlighting the environmental aspects of the project and the need to look for environmental solutions within the consortium's technological profile. She also emphasised the need for a change in the direction of thinking about research processes at universities and institutes brought about by strengthening the idea of eco-innovation and taking into account green technologies and the principle of sustainable development in R&D work.
The meeting centred around the first design thinking workshops entitled 'Mapping the potential of research organisations', led by mentor Marta Wangin, Director of the Centre for Cooperation with the Social and Economic Environment of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. The workshops provided scope for the exchange of experiences and good practices. And involved a great deal of interaction and creative exercises focused on the search for research collaboration within the consortium. The key challenge became designing a research potential map as a tool and a guide for innovation brokers from individual units, enabling them to overcome the limitations associated with many non-market R&D outcomes and to include these in the technology offer.
The workshops held at GMU are only the start of initiatives as part of the 'Science4Business – Nauka dla biznesu' project, whose principal aim is to increase the effectiveness of cooperation with business in many areas of the consortium's activity. This objective will be achieved by developing and strengthening the research and innovation capacities of entities, as well as by applying the developed breakthrough technological solutions in the economy. In relation to this, Technology Transfer Centres at the partner institutions will soon launch a dedicated call for micro-grants aimed at their research teams, covering industrial research and experimental development work with commercialisation potential, known as pre-implementation work. These activities will contribute to strengthening cooperation with the economic environment through the commercialisation and implementation of university research results into the industrial sector, as well as generating a tangible impact on society at both regional and national levels.
The meeting of consortium partners' representatives at GMU ended with a tour of the navigation bridge simulator and a showing at the A. Ledóchowski Planetarium at the Faculty of Navigation.
Photos are taken from the S4B consortium's resources (GMU, Moratex, UWM)
For more information, see:
https://umg.edu.pl/inkubator-rozwoju-w-ramach-projektu-science4business-nauka-dla-biznesu
The initiative was carried out under the non-competitive project 'Science4Business - Science for Business', co-financed by the European Union under Measure 2.5 of the European Funds for the Modern Economy Programme for the years 2021-2027
