Descripción
Abstract. The summer school is an international high-level academic trainingprogram that addresses the need to educate new generations in the design, use,
and adaptation of emerging technologies for the social inclusion of the current
elderly population in our countries, promoting their autonomy and healthy aging.
It was established in 2017 at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia,
in collaboration with IFMBE, CORAL, ABIOIN, and IEEE/EMBS, in Biomedical Engineering education with a high impact on undergraduate and postgraduate students across 16 countries, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada,
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala,
Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Panama. Over 300 students have participated in
the program, focusing on leveraging emerging technologies to enhance elderly
well-being. The participants have the opportunity to interact with the elderly in
combination with a strategic pedagogical such as lectures, workshops, case analyses, visiting living labs, and networking, and the main activity is to carry out a
Hackathon Challenge based on the elderly needs in a real study case from a multidisciplinary perspective, in a multicultural environment to develop technical and
soft skills that allow the students to explore different challenges to develop innovative technical and ergonomic solutions, by integrating emerging technologies and
addressing social needs. A multidisciplinary distinguished professor mentors this
learning model on the innovation phases of conception, design, prototyping, validation with the user, and business model, considering the standards, ethical, and
commercialization process to propose affordable solutions. Finally, the students
present a pitch to an expert panel for evaluation and awards.
| Período | 16 jun. 2025 |
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| Título del evento | Joint 20th Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering & 24th Polish Conference on Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering: NBC 2025 and PCBBE 2025, |
| Tipo de evento | Conferencia |
| Ubicación | Warsaw, PoloniaMostrar en mapa |
| Grado de reconocimiento | Internacional |