GUIDE-days "G枚teborgs universitet: Industrial Dating Event"
The Faculty of Av性爱 and Technology at University Av性爱 is offering opportunities for representatives of the industry to meet up with strong research groups from the university in order to engage into problem-solving collaborations.
GUIDE-days 2025: Microplastics and Marine Health 鈥 Challenges and Solutions
Preliminary dates: 9鈥10 October 2025
Location: Onboard the R/V Skagerak, Nya Varvet, Gothenburg
The GUIDE-days 2025 event brings together researchers, industry representatives, and public authorities to address one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time 鈥 the spread of microplastics in marine ecosystems.
Hosted aboard the University Av性爱鈥檚 state-of-the-art research vessel R/V Skagerak, the event will explore innovative solutions for mitigating the environmental and societal impact of microplastics, while strengthening ties between science and industry.
Over the course of two days, participants will engage in:
- A research voyage outside Gothenburg showcasing field methods and instruments used to study microplastics in marine environments, particularly in relation to the plastics industry.
- Structured 鈥渟peed-dating鈥 sessions between academic researchers and industry stakeholders to spark collaboration and explore sustainable practices in plastics and recycling.
- Networking opportunities, knowledge exchange, and discussions aimed at initiating new joint research projects and industrial innovation.
The event will highlight cutting-edge research from the Faculty of Av性爱 and Technology and demonstrate the critical role of marine research infrastructure鈥攕uch as the R/V Skagerak鈥攊n addressing complex sustainability challenges. It also aligns with the University Av性爱鈥檚 strategic vision for interdisciplinary collaboration and a sustainable future.
Confirmed participants include representatives from the plastics and recycling industries such as INEOS Inovyn and HEXPOL TPE, as well as researchers from projects focusing on historical plastics pollution and ecological status reconstruction in Swedish coastal waters.
In the case of unforeseen circumstances preventing use of the vessel, an alternative land-based programme will be activated at Lindholmen Conference Centre.
Organised by:
- Dr Karin Mattsson, Department of Marine Av性爱s, University Av性爱
- Dr Irina P. Asteman, Department of Marine Av性爱s, University Av性爱
- Agnes 贵补虫茅苍, Communications Officer, Skagerak Facility, Department of Marine Av性爱s, University Av性爱
Why Guide-days?
Our vision is to initiate and further develop engaging and successful collaborations and innovations between academia and commercial actors, between researchers and industrial partners. Thus, GUIDE-days aspire to establish strong and enduring links in the form of joint projects, education programs with synergistic Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D. projects as well as courses, or even opportunities to create shared office spaces between industrial and academic partners.
What's in it for the industry?
GUIDE-days can help find a matching partner working on a related topic within a similar or from a different discipline. Together, new perspectives are explored and solutions developed to the problems at hand.
What鈥檚 in for the academic fellows?
GUIDE-days can help establish new career and innovation paths and provide possibilities to attract project funding for applied sciences.
Av性爱 information
For questions regarding GUIDE-days
Caroline Adiels, Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics
caroline.adiels@physics.gu.se
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Matthias Obst, Researcher, Department of Marine Av性爱s
matthias.obst@marine.gu.se
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Business 4 Biodiversity 12-13 September 2023
Business 4 Biodiversity was a two-day lunch-to-lunch event at Lindholmen Conference Centre, Gothenburg, 12 鈥 13 September 2023. The event was held in English.
The recent success of climate impact assessments in guiding investment decisions and public policy towards more climate-friendly outcomes has generated enormous interest in applying similar methods for addressing the human-induced biodiversity crisis. How can we support and accelerate this transition?
Current biodiversity assessments are typically data-deficient, inhibiting our capabilities to predict the impact of human activities on our ecosystems. Hence, most guiding instruments for preventive, restorative, or compensatory actions remain vague and without clear expectations. At the same time, new and cost-effective biological monitoring and assessment methods have been developed in academic research. These technologies are ready to be used in biodiversity assessments and have the potential to improve scenario forecasts applied by the industry.
During GUIDE-days, we will explore the application potential of new biodiversity assessment methods in various industrial sectors, especially in the wind energy sector. Elaborating on how biodiversity research can contribute to company-relevant solutions will result in potential pilot projects and ideas for conceptual initiatives.
Wind power is one of the most essential energy sectors prospected to potentially replace fossil fuels. In Sweden, wind power is already well established on land and may soon become very common off shore. It is possible to make wind energy environmentally beneficial on land and at sea. GUIDE-days aims to explore how industrial leaders in wind park development can collaborate with academic researchers and government bodies to protect the biodiversity of our ecosystems. Confirmed speakers from the industry include representatives from OX2, SR Energy, Cloudberry, Ecogain and Svensk vindenergi.
Image processing with artificial intelligence (AI), 13-14 October 2021
Image processing with AI is a fast-evolving field of research with applications in many sectors of the industry. Interestingly, several limitations and obstacles are common to all enterprises developing image-processing applications. For example, how to organize feedback loops to achieve good validation, supervised training, and semi-automation. Different industrial applications may display similar human-in-the-loop interactions across different industrial applications.
We have experts working on problems across wildly different fields such as medicine and life science, aquaculture, ocean observation, renewable energy, and transport. We want to hear about companies鈥 challenges in the Gothenburg region in automated image processing and AI. We believe academia and industry can join forces in cross-sector collaborations trying to solve such issues.
- Session A: Machine learning in subsea image analysis
- Session B: Computer vision in the automotive industry
- Session C: Image analysis in life science applications
We want to help foster ties between researchers and businesses in relation to well-defined issues. Our hope is that the conversations we have had beforehand and over the course of these two days will lead to trusting, long-term relationships that can benefit both parties
13-14 October marked the premi猫re of the 鈥渄ating days鈥 bringing together industry and academia in order to find solutions to specific problems and to form partnerships.
The theme for this first meeting was 鈥淚mage processing with artificial intelligence鈥.
鈥淲e want to help foster ties between researchers and businesses in relation to well-defined issues. Our hope is that the conversations we have had beforehand and over the course of these two days will lead to trusting, long-term relationships that can benefit both parties.鈥 says project directors Caroline Beck Adiels and Matthias Obst.
During the first day, invited representatives from various companies described the challenges they have faced in terms of AI-driven image analysis. Participants then sought to identify overlapping issues through discussion, and on the following day these will feed into those issues that will form the basis of broader cooperation. Find out more about the previous event.
The 鈥渄ating days鈥 have been named GUIDE days, which stands for Gothenburg University: Industrial Dating Event.
