Diversity

Get inspired by cool and clever women, who join The Kitchen for a chat about everything from female entrepreneurship to networking, coding and STEM competencies.

Did you know that only 1.5 percent of all investments go to female founder teams?

Director of Enterprise and Innovation at Aarhus University, Lone Ryg Olsen, highlights the gender gap in a column in Omnibus.

Meet experience economist and founder of the digital creativity platform NIFTY, Camilla Struck, who believes that entrepreneurship is not about having the right competences, but about the will to create something.

Her Master’s thesis had the title “Everything But Jesper Buch” and aimed at motivating more women from the humanities to become entrepreneurs.

Meet postdoc at The Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center at Aarhus University, Noga Gal, who is co-founder of Betta Sensing that has developed a flavour recognition technology for food and beverages.

According to Noga, you shouldn’t be so afraid to ask for help: “No one can do everything on their own, and everyone knows the feeling of not being good enough. We need to normalize this feeling and make it okay to ask questions or reach out when you need help.”

A group of international students from Aarhus University, University of Southern Denmark and VIA University College are behind the sustainable startup Connecting Grounds that makes innovative food out of spent coffee grounds.

For co-founder, Giulia Francesca Marchetti, entrepreneurship is a path towards making a change in the world: “Entrepreneurship gives you the power and the opportunity to change things in the world that needs to be changed – and to really make a difference.”

Meet Julie Solvang who founded the tech startup Find din terapeut during her studies at Aarhus University. Julie is also part of a network for women about career, entrepreneurship, tech and coding.

Her best advice for people who want to become entrepreneurs themselves is to simply jump into it: “Don’t be afraid of potential challenges you might meet in the process. Things don’t just come your way unless you work for them.”

Meet postdoc Ella Paldam from the research project CollaboLearn, who has used entrepreneurial tools to sharpen her research project and funding strategy.

“I often say that my goal is to create a “humanistic science for society”. Entrepreneurship fits well into this mission because it is one of the ways in which research comes out and make a difference in our society.”