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? Eligible teams have to submit the extended version of their project before the 28th of August, prepared according to this template. For any questions, please write an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

The call for ideas for the next design school are on-line! The Design School will be held at Kenyatta University from 23rd to 27 October 2017. This year the contest is an integral part of the UBORA Eu Project, and is open to students from ABEC members and UBORA consortium. The abstract must be submitted before 8th of April 2017, and must be focused on reducing child mortality. For the 24 best-ranked projects travel and full-board will be provided for one team member to attend the Design School.

The instruction to submit the abstract can be found here. Please, help us in disseminating this initiative printing the flyer and post it on the wall of your department! 

Dear Innovators’,

 The submission guidelines for the Innovators’ Summer School 2016 are now available on-line. The theme of the school, the eligibility criteria, and the procedure for project submission are described here. The abstract template can be downloaded at this link. Respect to the past editions, a video demonstrating your project is also requested! Summer courses come in all kinds of different forms and degrees of complexity, so it’s a good idea to decide what exactly you are looking for before applying. If you are looking for an easier summer learning experience, pick a subject familiar to you and study it in greater depth. For a more challenging approach, choose a new subject or the one you have been struggling with during the past year.

Take a single class and focus on it, in order to avoid the feeling of being overwhelmed by new information, try the best essay writing service for your projects. Consider how many hours you want to spend in class every day. Generally, the average daily learning duration is 4 hours. Most programs last 1 to 4 weeks. Keep in mind that science modules usually require more contact hours than arts and humanities modules.

Some summer school classes require students to read additional materials before class, while others expect you to conduct extensive reading before the beginning of the course. Teachers suggest articles or book chapters to support classroom discussions. Brush up on your speed-reading and make sure you organise in advance. You may also have to prepare summaries, essays, short presentations, and so on. Summer courses are shorter than regular academic modules, so teachers will focus on the most important aspects of a subject. This might make your work easier for language or art classes, but technical or science-oriented courses could get intense, as skipping stages makes it more difficult to follow the steps of a logical argument. The submission deadline is August 31st 2016. You are kindly invited to submit your projects!

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 OBORA 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.