Gerontological Society of America highlights ISL and InnoVenture Weekend

The latest newsletter of the Gerontological Society of America mentions the Institute for Successful Longevity’s participation in InnoVenture Weekend, a student creative-challenge exercise here at Florida State University.

The society used the two-day team-building, innovation and business-pitch competition as an example of how an Age-Friendly University can bring older people into university learning and teaching.

For the 2018 event, the Institute for Successful Longevity asked older adults to offer problems they face in day-to-day life, then presented these problems to the 23 students participating in the InnoVenture challenge. The students formed teams and worked to develop solutions and marketing plans to bring their innovations to the marketplace.

The exercise was a partnership of the Institute for Successful Longevity, the FSU Innovation Hub, the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship and the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

You can read the Gerontological Society of America’s newsletter here (FSU’s InnoVenture Weekend is on page 11): https://www.geron.org/images/gsa/documents/WhatsHotAgeFriendly.pdf.

FSU is one of the first institutions in America to be designated an Age-Friendly University, thanks to the work of the Institute for Successful Longevity and its director, Neil Charness: FSU as an Age-Friendly University.

Learn more about the FSU Innovation Hub https://innovation.fsu.edu/, the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship https://jimmorancollege.fsu.edu/ and the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering https://www.eng.famu.fsu.edu/.