{"id":3453,"date":"2026-06-29T12:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2026-08-10T11:26:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T09:26:02","slug":"if-summer-school-2026-from-13-18-sep-2026-apply-by-31-july-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss\/2026\/06\/29\/if-summer-school-2026-from-13-18-sep-2026-apply-by-31-july-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"iF Summer School 2026 from 13-18 Sep 2026 (apply by 31 July 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impossible-founders.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Impossible Founders<\/a>, in collaboration with University of Hamburg, UKE, DESY, Stellenbosch University and the University of Groningen, is launching the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.impossible-founders.com\/programs\/if-summer-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>iFSummerSchool<\/strong><\/a> from <strong>13-18 September 2026<\/strong> in Hamburg \u2013 a selective 6-day program bringing together PhD students from physics, medicine, medtech, innovation and business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It addresses a structural gap in PhD education: breakthrough research in physics, medicine and Deep Tech often develops without early exposure to market contexts, application environments or venture perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>40 PhD students from physics, medicine, medtech, innovation and business work full-time on translating scientific ideas into structured opportunity spaces \u2013 combining scientific depth with market and application perspectives. A limited number of travel stipends are available for participants from outside the Hamburg area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across the week, the program includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>expert input sessions and lab exposure<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ecosystem visits and real-world context<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>interdisciplinary team formation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>structured market and application analysis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>mentoring and peer feedback<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>final opportunity pitch presentations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The focus is early-stage translation: Developing a first structured understanding of how scientific work can be evaluated through a venture and impact lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"605\" height=\"755\" src=\"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/06\/48F40A18-1E20-4B45-AFD9-A7164FD57938.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3457\" style=\"width:429px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/06\/48F40A18-1E20-4B45-AFD9-A7164FD57938.png 605w, https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/06\/48F40A18-1E20-4B45-AFD9-A7164FD57938-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/06\/48F40A18-1E20-4B45-AFD9-A7164FD57938-120x150.png 120w, https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/06\/48F40A18-1E20-4B45-AFD9-A7164FD57938-220x275.png 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impossible-founders.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Impossible Founders<\/a>, in collaboration with University of Hamburg, UKE, DESY, Stellenbosch University and the University of Groningen, is launching the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.impossible-founders.com\/programs\/if-summer-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>iFSummerSchool<\/strong><\/a> from <strong>13-18 September 2026<\/strong> in Hamburg \u2013 a selective 6-day program bringing together PhD students from physics, medicine, medtech, innovation and business.<\/p>\n<p>It addresses a structural gap in PhD education: breakthrough research in physics, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss\/2026\/06\/29\/if-summer-school-2026-from-13-18-sep-2026-apply-by-31-july-2026\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[358,356],"tags":[341,363],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3458,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions\/3458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}