Amongst the team at CONNECT North East, there is a quiet determination and sincerity to help our local high-growth technology sectors – by matching them up with funding.
There’s much beavering away in the background, so it’s good to get some feedback about the power of our growing network.
CurictusBy way of explanation, we are fortunate indeed to have in our wider team Gun-Marie Östedt-Axelsson: “since August 1, 2007 I’m the Swedish representative for the Regional Development Agency One NorthEast in NorthEast of England”
Gun-Marie recently reported:
As a result of the activities in the SEAGULL project the Swedish company Curictus – www.curictus.se – has now […] been brought into several concrete contacts at the universities in the North East. […] they have also received an additional contact at Sunderland University, where they run a stroke management course in collaboration with the NHS trust.
The background is that the inventor Martin Rydmark from Gothenburg University visited Newcastle in connection to the first Connect Northeast conference on April 23-25, 2008, where he was one of the 3 Swedish speakers. Martin and a colleague have also met Kenny Lang, Barry McLeer and Martin Cox from CELS in Gothenburg on October 2, 2008.
Curictus has now a new CEO, called Pehr-Johan Fager, who has started on August 1. Pehr-Johan has before worked as the deputy CEO for the Swedish company Reachin – www.reachin.se – which has been cooperating with the northeast company UK Haptics – www.ukhaptics.co.uk in the development of their product Virtual Veins and Clinical Skills Trainer. It means that Pehr-Johan knows the CEO and founder Gary Todd, who also was one of the speakers at the Connect conference in Newcastle in April 2008. Pehr Johan has also been to Northumbria University before and he had now also seen that one of the interesting university contacts had worked for UK Haptics before.
Curictus is just now developing their stroke rehabilitation product, which is called VRS Virtual Rehabilitation System, in different ways among other it will be CE-marked in the autumn. They are also just now discussing to go abroad with the product with the UK as the first country.
Pehr Johan has now taken contacts with all the five universities in the northeast and we are also discussing a visit in Newcastle in the beginning of December.
The Curictus website helpfully has a link to this video below:
Video explaining how Curictus works Info about the Seagull Project View this document on Scribdbtw, Caroline Theobald tells me that the SEAGULL Project has supported the recent “Digital Minds-The Nordic Light!” event in the historic city of Gävle, held at the end of October. This post by Georgia Rakusen gives more info.
What we thinks this showsArguably, Gun-Marie’s feedback speaks for itself, but to us, we think that
- CONNECT North East is increasingly becoming a powerful network
- It has an international dimension
- Networking takes time, but is worth the wait – i.e. the contacts were made in the Spring of last year
- It’s an interesting lead but we will keep our eye on this one and see where it goes!
Let us know what you think in the comments; if you want to get involved, contact us through the main website.
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