Tag Archives: Design School
ABEC Design Competition has been launched
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 Design School 2018
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 »
Results of the Second stage of the UBORA Design Competition are on line!
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 »
Design Competition 2018: results of the first stage
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 »
UBORA Design School 2017
The First design school, one of the cornerstone of UBORA, was held the second week of December 2017. Students, with the help of mentors, spent an intense week at Kenyatta University, in Nairobi (Kenya), learning how to design affordable and safe medical devices. The school is one of the instruments that the UBORA project has… Read More »
UBORA 1st Design Competition: the second stage results are online
Dear students, the results of the second stage UBORA design competition are on-line. From a total of 57 submitted design projects, for the 24 best-ranked projects travel and full-board will be provided for one team member to attend the UBORA Design School to be held in Kenyatta University (Nairobi – Kenya) from 23rd to 27th October 2017. Because of some joint… Read More »
UBORA 1st Design Competition: the first stage results are online
Dear students, A total of 113 design projects were submitted, and of these 60 were selected to go to the second stage. At this link you can find the list of selected project. We want to thank all of you for participating with passion and enthusiasm in this competition. We will invite ALL of you… Read More »
UBORA at the ABEC Innovators Summer School in Cairo
The Innovator Summer School organized by the African Biomedical Engineering Consortium has represented one of the pillars on which the UBORA project was conceived. The fifth edition hosted by Cairo University, in Egypt, focused on “Big Data for Improved Healthcare Outcomes in Africa” was the right occasion for presenting the UBORA project to the African Biomedical… Read More »