ABEC's Updates: Stay Informed
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At the half of the summer school, we can make a balance: 24 students divided in 8 groups working hard for their projects. Here you can find other pictures, Stay tuned!
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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
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The Innovators’ Summer School (ISS) is an initiative of UNECA (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa), and annually organized by ABEC. The ISS 2015 programme will focus on building the technical skills of students from 13 African universities on the application of mobile telephony in the design of medical devices. At the end of the programme, students and researchers would have been empowered with modern critical skills and techniques on how to enable smartphone to serve as a life-saving medical device.
Smartphones are multi-use multi-capability devices that are increasingly affordable, and have been used in Africa to promote financial inclusion. Mobile phones present enormous possibilities in the healthcare sector in terms of connectivity, visualization, sensors, storage, etc.
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The Scholarship applications for the African Biomedical Engineering Mobility are now open! A total of 10 PhD, 9 Master’s and 3 staff mobility award are expected to be made in the first round.
The application deadline is the 13th August 2017. For more information visit the ABEM website.
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Dear participants,
the results of the second stage of ABEC Design competition 2019 are online! For the 40 best-ranked projects full-board will be provided for one team member to attend the ABEC Design School 2019 to be held at Uganda Industrial Research Center in Kampala, Uganda, from 7th to 11th October 2018. For the first 28 projects developed by teams from African Institutions, travel grant, from one team member, will be also awarded.
Priority for enrollment will be given accordingly to the final ranking, up to a total of 40 participants. All the participants will be personally contacted by our Management Office, for detailed instructions, regarding travel and accommodation. Finally, we will invite ALL of you to participate in the UBORA e-infrastructure to further develop your projects, which will take you through the design, classification and fabrication process. You will be able to co-create with other designers with the help of mentors from industry and academia. We hope to count on you as pioneers for the design of safe medical devices to enable access to quality healthcare for all.