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COCONF19
Creating novel ideas and solutions through new partnerships

We all play a central role in achieving UN’s Global Goals, so how exactly are we able to contribute to solving the current challenges? And how can businesses work strategically with the Global Goals to achieve both societal and business advantages?

COCONF is a process of innovation conceived to connect actors, public and private alike, who can create change in our society, our businesses, and processes, through new products as well as new business- and cooperative models.

Hence, for the third year in a row, COCONF is setting the stage to engage actors in social innovation, wherein challenges are qualified, viable ideas are developed, and solutions are tested and implemented.

Change starts locally in Roskilde, where larger organizations pose complex challenges that necessitate cocreation through new partnerships. Businesses, researchers, students, and other actors may contribute as innovators with sustainable solutions and partake in the competition for a potential collaboration surrounding testing and implementation with the business posing the challenge.

Join the COCONF course.On the final day, the jury announces the names of those who have succeeded in creating the best solutions to each of the challenges as winners as well as the champion solution, which constitutes the greatest contribution to the target of achieving the UN’s Global Goals.
Read about the COCONF19 below:

"COconference is the perfect place to test if our ideas will work in practice. We’re able to think outside the box and elevate our creativity in a course such as this. At the same time, it has been possible to make suggestions in conjunction with other innovators, for instance Damgaard Rådgivende Ingeniører, Danfoss, SC Nordic, isoplus and Racell in our solution for Fors A/S"

– Jesper Jøns Rømer, Damgaard Rådgivende Ingeniører

"The overarching theme concerning sustainability touches upon nearly all aspects of society. It is something with which we as academic institutions are forced to contend - both in our research and our other operations."

– Peter Kjær, Prorektor Roskilde Universitet

"Often innovators perceive each other to be competitors, but with COconference, a safe platform has been created which encourages cooperation and synergy between organizations."

– Ulrik Eggert Knuth-Winterfeldt, Boligselskabet Sjælland

''COconference is an amazing opportunity for the students to work with real challenges from the business- and public sector, and thereby engage themselves in practice in an entirely new way''

– Jan Nepper Bjerre, Adjunkt med speciale i udviklingen af fremtidens velfærdssamfund, Absalon Professionshøjskole

Challengers
Which challenges should we face together?

A challenger is a sizeable business or organization facing a current challenge which is so complex that it calls for new strengths, new cooperation, and new solutions.

This year, ROCKWOOL, Rambøll, Mangor & Nagel Arkitekter, ARGO, Dansk Retursystem, Boligselskabet Sjælland, Roskilde Kommune, and Roskilde Universitet are posing challenges within the areas of climate adaptation, nudging, construction, recycling, waste sorting, and social economic business models.

Keep yourself updated here, as the challenges will be presented continuously.

COchallenges

You can contribute to the solving of a challenge as an innovator, a professional, a researcher, or a student and develop a solution that supports the achievement of the UN’s Global Goals.

CONCONF19 ensures dialogue between innovators and challengers, as well as a network of potential partners.

Program for COCONF19

COconference brings together actors across interests and sectors in order to uncover new solutions. We facilitate new ways in which to explore social innovation and entrepreneurship, solve current challenges, and contribute to achieving the UN’s Global Goals. Let yourself be inspired by professional presentations combined with pitches and gain insight into complex challenges, cutting edge solutions, and the train of thought behind social innovation.

The program will be continuously updated here, so stay tuned.

10th of September, 2019