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UBORA

Euro-African Open Biomedical Engineering e-Platform for Innovation through Education

The project aims at creating an EU-Africa e-Infrastructure, UBORA, for open source co-design of new solutions to face the current and future healthcare challenges of both continents, by exploiting networking, knowledge on rapid prototyping of new ideas and sharing of safety criteria and performance data. The e-infrastructure will foster advances in education and the development of innovative solutions in Biomedical Engineering (BME), both of which are flywheels for European and African economies. It is conceived as a virtual platform for generating, exchanging, improving and implementing creative ideas in BME underpinned by a solid safety assessment framework. Besides the provision of resources with designs, blueprints and support on safety assessment and harmonisation, specific sections for needs identification, project management, repositories and fund raising are also foreseen.

UBORA (“excellence” in Swahili) brings together European and African Universities and their associated technological hubs (supporting biomedical prototyping laboratories and incubators), national and international policymakers and committed and credible stakeholders propelled by a series of Summer Schools and Competitions. Through the UBORA e-Infrastructure, the biomedical community will generate and share open data and blueprints of biomedical devices, accompanied by the required procedures for respecting quality assurance, and assessing performance and safety. When properly implemented, as guaranteed by ordinary notification bodies, these biomedical devices can safely be used in hospitals and on patients. In a nutshell, UBORA couples the open design philosophy with Europe’s leadership in quality control and safety assurance, guaranteeing better health and new opportunities for growth and innovation.

Partners:

  • University of Pisa – Italy (ABEC member and Coordinator)
  • Royal institute of technology – Sweden
  • Technical University of Madrid – Spain
  • Uganda Industrial Research Institute – Uganda (ABEC member)
  • Kenyatta University – Kenya (Contact point for ABEC)
  • University of Tartu – Estonia
  • AgileWorks – Estonia

 

For more information, click here

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 731053

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