OULUHEALTH, FIN­LAND

Oys­ter Pre-incu­ba­tor

Apply with Your Busi­ness Idea to the AURA Pre-incu­ba­tor. OYS­TER is part of the AURA incu­ba­tor, a pro­gram for inno­v­a­tive health, ICT, and dual-use teams that have not yet estab­lished a com­pa­ny or obtained a busi­ness ID.

We are accept­ing new appli­ca­tions until 18th of Decem­ber 2026. The new pre-incu­ba­tor cohort will begin in mid-Jan­u­ary 2027.

Please sub­mit your appli­ca­tion using the link: https://www.lyyti.fi/reg/AURA_preincubator

Do you have a busi­ness idea relat­ed to the health or life sci­ence sec­tors? A 100-day pre-incu­ba­tion pro­gram is designed to val­i­date your busi­ness idea.

This pro­gram is specif­i­cal­ly intend­ed for emerg­ing researchers, stu­dents and pro­fes­sion­als who are address­ing chal­lenges in dig­i­tal health, health tech­nol­o­gy, and well­ness. Appli­cants are expect­ed to have already iden­ti­fied a busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ty with­in these fields that has the poten­tial to scale. Appli­ca­tions can be sub­mit­ted either indi­vid­u­al­ly or as a team. 

What Does Par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Pre-incu­ba­tor Entail? 

The AURA pre-incu­ba­tion pro­gram lasts for 100 days, run­ning from Jan­u­ary to May. Its pri­ma­ry objec­tive is to val­i­date your busi­ness idea. The train­ing pro­gram cov­ers key themes such as prod­uct and busi­ness devel­op­ment, cus­tomer iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, busi­ness mod­els, reg­u­la­tions, fund­ing, and pitch­ing. In addi­tion, par­tic­i­pants will have access to a vari­ety of net­work­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties. 

Par­tic­i­pa­tion requires that at least one team mem­ber can attend ses­sions in per­son at the AURA Incu­ba­tor premis­es in Oulu. Meet­ings will be held approx­i­mate­ly three times per month, each last­ing half a day dur­ing day­time hours. 

Each team par­tic­i­pat­ing in the pre-incu­ba­tor will be assigned a men­tor. To sup­port the learn­ing process, par­tic­i­pants will also have access to our com­mon How­space plat­form, where they can review the con­tent from the incu­ba­tion ses­sions. 

Please note that the pri­ma­ry lan­guage of the pre-incu­ba­tor is Eng­lish.

Sub­mit you appli­ca­tion here

OYS­TER Incu­ba­tor: Mak­ing the Future — Empow­er­ing health & life sci­ence star­tups

More infor­ma­tion

Min­na Komu
Net­work Direc­tor, Coor­di­na­tion of Health and Life Sci­ence ecosys­tem OuluHealth
minna.komu@businessoulu.com
tel. 050 591 7721