Are you finding it difficult to come up with a truly innovative idea for your next grant application? Do you ever feel stuck in an experiment, in familiar ways of thinking, even when you know there must be new angles to explore?
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\r\nScience progress moves between two complementary modes: Day Science, the rigorous testing of ideas, and Night Science, the creative process where those ideas first emerge. Indeed, what we call the scientific method tells us what to do once we have a hypothesis – but where do these hypotheses come from in the first place? François Jacob famously called this part the realm of ‘Night Science’.
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\r\nDrawing on the Night Science training framework developed by Profs Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher, this workshop will introduce thinking tools and exercises to help you foster exploratory thinking, interdisciplinarity and a general attitude of openness towards new ideas applied to your own research challenges. This course is provided by a certified Night Science trainer from the EPFL Research Office.
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The Future of Health Grant is a support program dedicated to accelerating early‑stage digital health startups developing solutions relevant to the Swiss healthcare system.
\r\nCreated by CSS and the EPFL Innovation Park, it combines equity‑free funding, expert guidance and access to healthcare stakeholders to help founders progress from prototype to real‑world validation.
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