Industry and Research

Some of the most valuable collaborations begin with a conversation. 

Whether you are exploring new research opportunities or looking for fresh perspectives on industry challenges, Nordic Fintech Center helps you connect with the right people. Researchers contribute new knowledge and emerging technologies. Industry professionals contribute practical challenges, market insight and opportunities for real-world application. 

Together, these conversations can grow into projects, partnerships and new solutions that create lasting impact. 

Pathways to collaboration. The right connections, made early.

Bring real industry challenges into the classroom

Discover what you can achieve together. Give student teams practical challenges to work on through hackathons, courses and educational programmes.

Explore your opportunities

Join a research project

Bring financial industry challenges together with academic expertise through collaborative research and innovation projects. Ideal for industry challenges that are specific, complex, and need specialised scientific insight.

Explore partnership options

Meet and collaborate with early-stage ventures

Connect with student entrepreneurs and research-based spinouts to explore opportunities. Get involved as a mentor, pilot customer or partner.

Connect with university entrepreneurs

Collaboration across sector professionals, students and professors

Start small. Go deeper when there is value in it.

Working together doesn’t have to start with a big commitment. It can begin with contributing with an industry challenge or as a case for a student project, as a knowledge provider for an event or simply starting a first conversation.

For companies, it’s a chance to look at current challenges from a new angle, explore ideas and meet talented potential future colleagues.

For students, it’s an opportunity to work on real-world challenges, understand what businesses need and look for and build relationships that can help shape future careers.

Courses and hackathons

Entrepreneurship programs

Student theses

Internships and talent recruitment

Bring expertise together to tackle complex challenges

Some challenges need more than a quick fix. As technology evolves, finding the right answers takes deeper research and different perspectives. The more complex the challenge, the more we can gain by bringing different expertise, methods and perspectives together

We help you find the right partners and shape a project that creates value for everyone involved.

For companies, it’s a way to work with specialists, explore emerging technologies and access expertise, facilities, labs and data that may be difficult to develop in-house.

For researchers, it’s an opportunity to put your research into practice. Work with financial industry experts to explore how your research can address real-world challenges, test ideas and validate assumptions. Build connections with potential partners to take promising findings further.

Financial sector data and insights for research projects

Project consortia and joint fundraising applications

PhD collaborations

Innovation projects

Turn new ideas into new opportunities

Discover promising university startups and explore what you can achieve together.

Whether they are students or researchers, university entrepreneurs bring fresh thinking, specialised knowledge and the drive to challenge existing ways of doing things.

We help match relevant startups and corporates to explore how you can create value together.

For companies, it’s an opportunity to explore potential new partners, discover emerging technologies and insights, and test new approaches to industry challenges.

For university entrepreneurs, it’s a chance to explore real industry needs, work with new data, test ideas in a business context and build relationships that can move you forward.

Mentorship

Pilot test and early validation

Partnerships and investment

Fintech Ambassadors

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Fintech Ambassador

Technical University of Denmark

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