The African Biomedical Engineering Consortium (ABEC)

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Operations & administration

  • Regulatory compliance and set-up
  • Dedicated Human resource.
  • Registry of country & institutional representatives

  • Coordination Offices in different African regions
  • Sustainable financial strategy (membership, research grants, trainings, services, consultancies, donations, collaborations)
  • Develop policies
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance of publicity platforms (websites, social media, newsletters)
  • Grants management
  • ABEC Membership and Alumni Association

  • Expand the ABEC membership
  • Distribution of members to different working groups under the ABEC Directorates
  • Register and Coordinate the ABEC/ABEM Alumni Association
  • Creating platform for networking among ABEC/ABEM Alumni
  • Engagement of ABEC Alumni in the different ABEC Working groups
  • Engagement of ABEC Alumni in the different ABEC Working groups
  • Research & Dissemination

  • Publicize grant opportunities for research funding and collaborations
  • Supplemental research trainings
  • Research dissemination platforms
  • Research repositories
  • African biomedical engineers’ registry
  • Research design & implementation
  • Build strategic collaborations
  • Dissemination events management service
  • Web-based registry of BME engineers, and Innovators and HoDs of BME in Africa.
  • Monitoring and Evaluation of ABEC activities
  • Situational analysis on the scope of published research in BME in Africa.
  • Biomedical Education

  • BME education harmonization
  • Supplemental training (Certificate courses)
  • Academic mobilities (student & staff)
  • Publicize scholarship and fellowship opportunities
  • Build strategic collaborations
  • Consultancy services
  • Facilitate the creation of registries of the HoDs of BME and Engineering associations in Africa for easy coordination
  • Facilitate the registry of Universities that offer BME in Africa.
  • Innovations & Entrepreneurship

  • Design competitions & Innovation summer schools
  • Open-source platform for innovation design (UBORA)
  • Business incubation and accelerator hubs
  • Web-based platform to showcase Africa’s innovations to leverage support & collaborations
  • Web-based platform for Publicizing funders and opportunities for innovation.
  • Build strategic collaborations
  • Consultancy services