We are glad to announce the winners of the UBORA Design Competition 2020. We received a total of 28 applications from Europe, Africa and North America, involving more than 100 developers. The first 4 projects will be awarded in a special session during the BootCamp on COVID-19, organized by UNECA, UNESCO, and the South Africa… Read More »
Considering current global emergency with the COVID-19 pandemia and the increasing risk of infectious disease outbreaks in our globalized world, the UBORA 2020 International Design Competition concentrates on technological solutions aimed at providing an integral management for present pandemia and for eventual future outbreaks. These solutions, in the form of well-documented medical device projects and shared as… Read More »
The results of the second stage of ABEC Design competition 2019 are online! For the 40 best-ranked projects full-board will be provided for one team member to attend the ABEC Design School 2019 to be held at Uganda Industrial Research Center in Kampala, Uganda, from 7th to 11th October 2018. For the first 28 projects developed by teams from African Institutions, travel grant, from one team member, will… Read More »
The Design Competition 2019, the annual competition seeking innovative ideas in Biomedical Engineering, was officially launched on March 2nd. This year, the competition is organized by the Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI), together with the African Biomedical Engineering Consortium (ABEC) and the UBORA consortium, with the theme ‘Cross-Cutting Issues in Healthcare: Global Technology Innovations in… Read More »
UBORA is a truly worldwide community of medical device developers which includes engineers, clinicians and patients, for developing needs-based medical healthcare technologies. Recently (November 29th) we met, for example, the doctors of Zambrano Hellion Hospital in Monterrey (MX), one of the most advanced in Latin America. The discussion was focused both on high-tech medical devices… Read More »
The UBORA Design School 2018 was held in the first week of September at the Conference Center Le Benedettine of University of Pisa, in Italy. More than 90 students, mentors, teachers and keynote speakers of 22 different nationalities from 4 continents animated the 5-days school on the design of open source medical devices. The school, born… Read More »
Dear participants, the results of the second stage UBORA design competition 2018 are online! From a total of 79 submitted projects for the second stage, for the 28 best-ranked projects travel and full-board will be provided for one team member to attend the First Conference on Collaborative Biomedical Engineering for Open Source Medical Technologies and… Read More »
A total of 126 projects were submitted, and of these 87 were selected to go to the second stage. At this link, you can find the list of eligible projects. We want to thank all of you for participating with passion and enthusiasm in this competition. Instructions for participating to the second stage are available… Read More »
The UBORA consortium is pleased to announce that the UBORA managing group has been nominated. The group, as foreseen in the work plan for the development of the e-infrastructure, has the mission to supervise the activities on UBORA e-infrastructure, such as promoting the discussions on the forums, formalizing engineering problems starting from medical needs. The group is composed… Read More »
The UBORA design competition 2018, announced during the closing ceremony of the UBORA design school in Nairobi, officially started in the first days of January. The competition seeks innovative biomedical engineering solutions from students (individuals or teams) addressing healthcare problems faced by the ageing society promoting Healthy Ageing, enabling individuals to live both longer and healthier lives, or… Read More »