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  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 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!