Join this afternoon event co-organized by The Kitchen and AIAS to discuss SOLUTIONS - how research and innovation can contribute to address and help solve pressing and emerging societal issues:

• How can we promote an interdisciplinarity that can match the complicated challenges we are confronted with?
• How can we create the spaces where radically different forms of knowledge meet and both challenge and fertilize each other?
• And what does this require of the people and institutions that have the deep professional insights?

PROGRAMME

ABOUT THE FILM

The documentary film SOLUTIONS follows a group of leading researchers, along with experts from business, policy and NGOs, who isolate themselves for 10 days at the renowned Santa Fe Institute in the New Mexico desert with a grand ambition: to develop concrete proposals for solutions to some of the most pressing challenges of our time. The researchers come from widely diverse fields and they attempt to create a new form of scientific conversation across disciplinary boundaries.

SOLUTIONS (111 min. DK/Documentary) is directed by Pernille Rose Grønkjær, Denmark, with support from the Danish Film Institute, the Lundbeck Foundation, Creative Europe and DR TV. It was previously screened at CPH:DOX.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Grønkjær had her breakthrough with 'The Monastery' (2006) that won the Joris Ivens top award at the IDFA Film Festival and 11 other international awards. Since then she has directed documentaries such as 'Love Addict – Stories of Dreams, Obsession and Longing' (2011), 'Genetic Me' (2014), selected for CPH:DOX, 'The Other Side' (2017) about Danish comedian Anders Matthesen and 'Hunting for Hedonia' (2019), which premiered at CPH:DOX. SOLUTIONS is Grønkjær's most recent film.

For further information: Filmdatabasen or IMDb.  

PARTICIPATION & REGISTRATION

The event is open to all interested by prior registration here.

• Deadline for registration: 2 November 2025.

VENUE

The event is held at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) at Aarhus University, buildings 1630-1632
Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 6B
8000  Aarhus C
Denmark

ORGANIZERS

The debate is organized by Aarhus University's start-up hub The Kitchen and Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), the interdisciplinary and international research community at Aarhus University.

CONTACTS

Lena Bering, Senior Consultant for Communications at AIAS
E-mail: lber@aias.au.dk

Lonni Klitgaard, Senior Consultant for Communications, Enterprise and Innovation, Aarhus University
E-mail: lokl@au.dk