ABEC 2021 Summer school Digital Edition is over!

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The 2021 ABEC Design School was digitally held in the second week of November on Zoom. During the school, organized by the Malawi University of Science and Technology, students, mentors, and keynote speakers from different African and European countries worked together on the design, classification, and implementation of medical devices.  

Students were organized into 9 different groups working on devices focusing on Combating non-comunicable diseases in low and middle-income countries through advanced research and innovation:

UBORA was thoroughly used as a co-design tool. After the mentor evaluation, three projects were awarded as the best ranked. At the third place, Group 6 presented a device to manage a side effect of chemotherapy such as hair loss.

Group 3, ranked at second place, presented software for the management of the medical equipment in hospitals.

At the first place, group 4 presented a device for the storage and sterilization of insulin.

Stay tuned for further updates!

ABEC Design School 2021 – Digital Edition

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We are happy to announce a Digital Edition of ABEC Design School, to be held online from 8th to 12th November 2021.

The School is organized by the Malawi University of Science and Technology, with the theme “Combating different diseases in low and middle-income countries through advanced research and innovation“.

The School is open to all the participants to the ABEC Design Competition 2020. For the registration, please fill the form at this link, and send it to info@abec-africa.org and to ekhundi@must.ac.mw .

We will publish soon the program, with classes on Additive Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, and many other cutting-edge technologies. Stay tuned!

ABEC Design Competition 2020: results of the Second Stage

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Dear Innovators,

results of the ABEC Design Competition 2020 are online (click on the link): a total of 26 projects have granted sponsorship for participating in the ABEC Design School. Congratulation!

What’s next?

Due to COVID-19 and uncertainty in travel restriction, we are rescheduling the activities of the School. All the participants in the competition (both sponsored and not sponsored) will be personally contacted via email for arranging their participation in remote or in presence in the School. Stay tuned!

ABEC Design Competition 2020 is Launched!

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The Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) in collaboration with University of Malawi-The Polytechnic, Malawi Innovation Hub (mHub), Rice360 & NEST360,  the African Biomedical Engineering Consortium (ABEC), the UBORA consortium, and other collaborating partners will host the 2020 ABEC Design Competition with the theme Solving problems of Non-Communicable diseases through cross-cutting research and innovation.

This competition seeks innovative multidisciplinary This competition seeks innovative multidisciplinary ideas, overlapping engineering and medicine paradigms, from teams of undergraduate students who have thankfully been able to receive help from companies like https://www.sofi.com/student-loan-help/ and have been mentored by lecturers or experts with postgraduate qualifications. The ideas should tackle global challenges associated with non-communicable diseases with an emphasis on problems affecting low- and middle-income countries. Sustainable solutions can only be developed if engineers engage collaboratively with those at the forefront of delivering healthcare.

MALAWI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (MUST) & DESIGN STUDIO

Detailed instructions are provided at the competition page.

The winner of the competition will be invited to participate in this year’s Design School.

ABEC Design Competition 2019: results of the second stage

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Dear participants,

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 be also awarded.

Priority for enrollment will be given accordingly to the final ranking, up to a total of 40 participants.

All the participants will be personally contacted by our Management Office, for detailed instructions, regarding travel and accommodation. 

Finally, we will invite ALL of you to participate in the UBORA e-infrastructure to further develop your projects, which will take you through the design, classification and fabrication process. You will be able to co-create with other designers with the help of mentors from industry and academia. We hope to count on you as pioneers for the design of safe medical devices to enable access to quality healthcare for all.

ABEC Design Competition 2019: results of the first stage

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A total of 72 projects, from 22 institutions distributed over 13 countries of Africa, Europe and North America, were submitted to the first stage of ABEC Design Competition. From these, 53 have been selected to participate in the second stage.

Check the list of eligible projects at this link.

We want to thank you all for participating with passion and enthusiasm in this competition.

Instructions for the second stage are available on the competition page.

The ABEC Design Competition has been launched

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The Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI), together with the African Biomedical Engineering Consortium (ABEC) and the UBORA consortium,  is holding the 2019 ABEC Design Competition with the theme ‘Cross-Cutting Issues in Healthcare: Global Technology Innovations in Surgery, Obstetrics and Anesthesia’.

This competition seeks innovative multidisciplinary ideas, overlapping engineering and medicine paradigms, from student teams. The sought ideas should tackle global challenges associated with surgical practice, obstetrics and anesthesia with an emphasis on low- and middle-income countries. Sustainable solutions can only be developed if engineers engage collaboratively with those at the forefront of delivering healthcare.

Successful teams emerging from the design competition will have one team member invited to a one-week design school featuring an innovative Conceive Design Implement Operate (CDIO) instructional framework empowered by the UBORA an e-infrastructure for the co-design of open-source medical devices.

It is a two-stage competition: the first-stage deadline is on April 1st 2019.

For submission procedure, evaluation criteria, scholarships, and other important dates please refer to the Competition page.

UBORA design competition 2018 has been launched

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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 can be used in treatments of age-related diseases, syndromes, and disabilities.

For the best-ranked projects, travel from the university town to Pisa and back and full-board will be provided for one team member to attend the UBORA Design School 2018 to be held at University of Pisa (Pisa – Italy) from 3rd to 7th September 2018. Specific places are reserved for students of ABEC partners. 

The first stage deadline is on March 1st: you can find all the information here.

You can also help us in disseminating the competition by printing and attaching the competition flyer in your university! Thanks in advance!