Via ChallengeEU, the FHNW provides businesses and organisations access to research partnerships across Europe.
Innovation starts with dialogue
ChallengeEU aims to implement a cooperative innovation model at its schools that involve all partners in research and innovation. The FHNW therefore plans to build physical sites for exchange. They foster networking and innovation in the key specialisation areas health and well-being, smart digitalization, and sustainable futures.
Do you have a topic or challenge and want to profit from a collaboration with the FHNW? Contact us to talk about your project.
Cooperation formats in depth
ChallengeEU brings together actors from research, business, civil society and administration to develop solutions in the key specialisation areas health and well-being, smart digitalization, and sustainable futures by using the M.A.R.K.E.T. (Multi-Actor Research & Knowledge Exchange Team) approach.
We address NGOs, businesses, public institutions, interest groups, external researches and the general public.
In the context of ChallengeEU, the FHNW provides a co-creation and co-working offer. It aims to develop research and innovation projects in the specialisation fields. At the core is the offer for you to bring in your ideas and projects and develop them through an open multi-actor-approach.
The FHNW gradually builds a network of physical co-creation and co-working spaces. It comprises existing infrastructure such as labs, workshops and classrooms as well as spaces provided by partners. They provide space for exchange and collaboration. Including multiple actors at all stages – from problem definition to solution development – creates an impactful innovation process.
About our M.A.R.K.E.T.s
More specifically, M.A.R.K.E.T.s consist of teams und their physical infrastructure at the FHNW (labs, workshops or classrooms) and spaces provided by local partners (innovation spaces, libraries, town halls or museums). The following M.A.R.K.E.T.s already exist:
FHNW strategic action fields
The strategic action fields are defined in the FHNW strategy. By concentrating its forces in the fields New Work, Future Health and Zero Emission, the FHNW aims to provide answers to the most urgent issues of society and economy.
FHNW Strategic Action FieldsdesignXsciences: healthy longevity lab
Together with stakeholders we work at community and local level to address the societal challenge of a rapidly ageing society – with a focus on infrastructure that works for all generations.
ODEI
We connect people from different disciplines and with multiple needs to shape human-machine interactions.
MobiLab
MobiLab is a mobile experimentation space which brings research education directly to primary schools.
MobiLab - mobiles LernlaborHealthC
HealthC informs about health topics in a relatable manner. It aims to connect science, health practitioners, administration and the public. HealthC wants to be a nodal point in social and public health innovation.
Passt Ihre aktuelle Fragestellung zu einem unserer M.A.R.K.E.T.s? Zögern Sie nicht, Ihr Anliegen direkt in einen M.A.R.K.E.T. einzubringen und den bereits stattfindenden Multi-Actor-Austausch für Ihre Fragestellung zu nutzen.
Does your topic fit one of our M.A.R.K.E.T.s? Don’t hesitate and contact the M.A.R.K.E.T. directly and feed your questions into the existing multi-actor-exchange.
Please contact the corresponding M.A.R.K.E.T. directly via its website. If no contact is provided you can contact the FHNW research support.
About our pop-up M.A.R.K.E.T.s
Pop-ups are temporary meeting spaces in the region. They provide space for discussing specific topics and strengthen the cooperation with existing partners.
Pop-ups are held at several occasions throughout the region.
The coming pop-up events will be posted on the German site.
Information about events in the regions of our partner universities are available in the ChallengeEU event calendar.
Contact

Dr. Roberto Vadrucci
- Phone
- +41 56 202 72 49
- roberto.vadrucci@fhnw.ch