Paris, Compiègne, June 18-22 2018
The French-Canadian BIOMEDInnov Summer School will take place June 18 to 22, 2018, and will engage students designing innovative new technologies for health and medicine. The program focuses on needs-driven design to develop clinically relevant biomedical technologies. Travelling to France to attend the summer school are 22 students (from all universities) and 6 researchers from the University of Waterloo who were involved in the international exchange.
The
program
is
supported
by
a
130,
000
EUR
FormInnov
grant
to
the
researchers
at
the
Sorbonne
University
(UPMC),
UTC,
and Centre
d’études
littéraires
et
scientifiques
appliquées (CELSA) and
the
University
of
Waterloo.
The
five
day
program
consists
of
research
presentations,
workshops,
lectures
and
seminars
by
professionals, French
and
Canadian
biomedical
start-up
companies,
and industry
sponsor Medtronic.
Stakeholders including
clinicians
and
patients
are
invited
to
share
their
experience,
define
their
needs
and
issues,
and
will
engage
with students
as
they
work
together
on
an
innovation
project
in
a
hackathon
format.
Workshops
will
cover
engineering
design
and
design
thinking,
agile
methods,
prototyping, technology
acceptance,
standards,
regulations,
economics,
entrepreneurship,
and
legal
and
ethical
aspects
of
biomedical
devices.
The
event
will
conclude
with
a
bio-hackathon competition
that
puts
into
practice
the
knowledge
and
skills
learned
through
the
week.
The
Waterloo
participation
in
the
summer
school
program
is
sponsored
by
CBB
through
an
International
Research
Partnership
grant.
Mitacs
has
awarded
some
students
from
Waterloo
Globalink research
awards
that
will
accommodate
their
travel
for
their
research
experience
in
France,
including
the
summer
school