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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . We will publish soon the program, with classes on Additive Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, and many other cutting-edge technologies. Stay tuned!

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.

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 Here

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!