EIT Health supports the EIT, a body of the European Union, in organizing the Ageing Brain Summer School. The summer school is organized by medical students and focuses on training students to develop solutions for issues related to brain aging through an innovative and entrepreneurial approach. It involves group work bringing together basic researchers, clinicians and industrial partners to design solutions for real-life problems using design thinking methodology and technology. The summer school is aimed at master's students from fields like medicine, biology and engineering.
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CLC Belgium/Netherlands
CLC Germany
CLC Scandinavia
Innostar Portugal
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COLLABORATION WITH EIT HEALTH PARTNERS
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Ageing brain
Because…
• demographic changes enhance normal and pathological brain ageing
• neurodegenerative disease: dementia & motor disability
• novel treatments, technological solutions, healthcare management
We will train our students to:
• be driven by the needs of the citizens and patients
• work on creative solutions
• embrace innovative technology
• develop entrepreneurial skills
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Unique aspects
Ageing Brain Summer School
Long-standing track-record student-driven summer schools (> 14 years)
Organized by medical students, supported by central admin team
Embedded in U4 Ageing Brain strategic partnership, now scaling to full
Development of knowledge, research and technological skills
Group work: basic researchers & clinicians with industrial partners
‘Design thinking’ methodology & innovative technology
Competition for best solution to set of real life problems (business idea)
4 ECTS
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TARGET GROUP: MASTER LEVEL STUDENTS
Medicine, (medical) biology, technical medicine,
(biomedical) engineering, physics, and business & economics.
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Self-organized by med students
track-record student-driven summer schools
And a little help from us
Fitts extremely well with RuG and UMCG themes: Healthy Ageing and Ageing Brain
Cycle city and among happiest citizens in Europe
Blue patio: one of the venues in UMCG (poster walk)
every year UMCG hosts eight summer schools in the field of health and ageing
We have a strong partnership all along the knowledge triangle of committed, experienced and highly competent partners in academia, industry (Pharma, medtech, ICT, large and small), research centres, testing labs, incubators and accelerators etc. Shared activity of 7 academic and 5 industrial partners + NGO, EIT Health dimensions involving 10 partners from 3 CLCs & Innostars. CLC=co-location center
Being an EIT Health summerschool allows us to invite many guest speakers, from all academic, business and network partners and to include the citizen‘s perspective. We will contribute to the professional development of tomorrow‘s doctors and researchers and in some cases, entrepreneurs by providing students with a broad multiperspective view on the ageing brain, by including the medical as well as the technological and entrepreneurial perspectives.
To mention just a few examples:
Intro SS/EIT Health by Prof Gielen (Ghent)
Morning on fundamental aspects of brain ageing with contributions from Lisbon
Mechanisms of brain ageing Ana Sebastião NeuroinflammationDora Brites Protein aggregation Claudio Gomes
Morning on developing brain contributions from Lisbon, Ghent and Groningen.
Afternoon on PD and technological solutions for assessment and treatment with contributions from Newcastle and Groningen.
Basic researchers, clinicians and industrial partners will be brought together in multidisciplinary “design thinking” teams for group assignments that include a competition for the best solution to a real life problem (i.e. business idea)
Master-level students from medicine, (medical) biology, technical medicine, (biomedical) engineering, physics, and business & economics
Basic researchers, clinicians and industrial partners will be brought together in multidisciplinary “design thinking” teams for group assignments that include a competition for the best solution to a real life problem (i.e. business idea)
Master-level students from medicine, (medical) biology, technical medicine, (biomedical) engineering, physics, and business & economics
Long-standing track-record student-driven summer schools (> 14 years)
Shared activity of 7 academic and 5 industrial partners + NGO
Embedded in U4 Ageing Brain strategic partnership, now scaling to full
EIT Health dimensions involving 10 partners from 3 CLCs & Innostars
Development of knowledge, research and technological skills
Group work: basic researchers & clinicians with industrial partners
Design thinking methodology & innovative technology
Competition for best solution to set of real life problems (business idea)
The two-week program (see Appendix II) employs the four-layer structure as shown in Fig. 1. Each day a different topic is addressed. Each topic is approached from a pre-clinical, a clinical, a technology (e.g. self-management) and a health improvement perspective. Attention is paid to integrate relevant themes such as ‘big data’ (Lifelines (large biobank and cohort study) fieldtrip) and ‘overcoming functional loss’ (multiple lectures). Thorough hands-on training to strengthen the entrepreneurial attitude of the participants is integrated throughout the two-week program, by group work individually supported by stakeholder representatives and by means of a competition for best ideas and solution (see also Section 1). This will improve innovation literacy of the students, as well as their citizen-centeredness and openness for entrepreneurial solutions. Due to a better market understanding of health and ageing, students will build a network that will foster academy/industry/healthcare collaborations as well as increase their chances on the job market (both in hospitals and health care institutes, industry and SMEs).
Layout program supports our goals. Each daily topic is approached from a pre-clinical, a clinical, a technology (e.g. self-management) and a health improvement perspective. Intense program with various group activitites ensures that professional and personal bonds are made for a lifetime. Students will build a network that will foster future collaborations as well as increase their chances on the job market, making this a school that benefits students as well as society.
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The two-week program (see Appendix II) employs the four-layer structure as shown in Fig. 1. Each day a different topic is addressed. Each topic is approached from a pre-clinical, a clinical, a technology (e.g. self-management) and a health improvement perspective. Attention is paid to integrate relevant themes such as ‘big data’ (Lifelines (large biobank and cohort study) fieldtrip) and ‘overcoming functional loss’ (multiple lectures). Thorough hands-on training to strengthen the entrepreneurial attitude of the participants is integrated throughout the two-week program, by group work individually supported by stakeholder representatives and by means of a competition for best ideas and solution (see also Section 1). This will improve innovation literacy of the students, as well as their citizen-centeredness and openness for entrepreneurial solutions. Due to a better market understanding of health and ageing, students will build a network that will foster academy/industry/healthcare collaborations as well as increase their chances on the job market (both in hospitals and health care institutes, industry and SMEs).
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The ABSS focuses on the cross-cutting topic “Ageing with a healthy brain”. Ageing poses an increasing burden on European societies. Currently, treatment of age-related diseases is highly demanding in time and money. The on-going demographic ageing of the population will require substantial reorganization of our health care budgets and infrastructure of hospitals and nursing homes. Particularly, neurodegenerative diseases resulting in dementia and motor disability urgently require our attention. Future brain research and innovation should aim at development of novel drugs, advanced diagnostics, adequate clinical care and technology to deal with this societal challenge. Therefore, education and training of future healthcare professionals, scientists, entrepreneurs and policy makers in our Summer School Ageing Brain is focused on the early hallmarks and diagnosis of normal and abnormal brain ageing, the development of novel effective treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, novel strategies for clinical treatment, the management of elderly care and the development of novel technology to support the daily care of elderly afflicted by dementia and motor disability. We will challenge the participants of the summer school to address these issues with innovative technologies, creative solutions and entrepreneurial skills and by identifying the citizens’ and patients’ need with the ultimate goal of inventing novel solutions for these 21st century problems and bringing these to the market.
