How it works

AIMday is a process rather than a one-day event. The following five steps outline the process.

 

Step 1: Submission of questions from companies and health care organizations

Organizations are invited to submit diabetes-related challenges, formulated as one or more questions, to be discussed with a tailored multidisciplinary team of academic scientists. Background information related to the question should also be provided.

The AIMday team will give feedback on your question and can provide assistance with formulating your question in order to attract the widest academic audience to the workshop.

The question is submitted to the meeting in advance. The deadline for submission of questions is 29 April 2016.

 

Step 2: Academic scientists signing up for questions

The questions from companies and health care organizations are gathered and presented to academic scientists from different disciplines and universities. Subsequently, researchers announce the questions that they have a special interest in, and would like to take part in discussing.

Registration for researchers closes on 9 September 2016.

 

Step 3: Matchmaking and formation of groups

The AIMday team creates a schedule based on the interest and availability of academic scientists. The schedule optimizes participation and efficiency during the day for all attendees, and ensures a multidisciplinary constellation of each discussion group. If an insufficient number of academic scientists have registered for a specific question, the AIMday team actively tries to identify relevant researchers to tailor the discussion group.

 

Step 4: The Meeting Day

AIMday Diabetes will be hosted on 26 September 2016. Each question is discussed for one hour, no more – no less, and the group size is approximately 7-12 people. Time is also allocated in the program for participants to mingle with each other, or to follow up on the discussion in the groups.

 

Step 5: Follow-Up


About one month after the AIMday event, the AIMday team will follow up on the meetings and if necessary offer assistance to get projects or other forms of collaborations going.