ehSemi – 2nd Seminar of Students in Digital Technologies and Health/Wellbeing takes place on 3rd February

The 2nd students’ seminar on Ehealth and Wellbeing aims to be a forum of discussion for students who develop research leading to innovative digital media solutions to improve people’s health, wellbeing and quality-of-life.

This seminar is an initiative from the E-health & Wellbeing group of DigiMedia and in 2022 it will have the 2nd edition (access the 1st edition website here). The keynote speaker will be Doctor Joana Feijó, Business Development Director of the Health Cluster Portugal (HCP), who will also run a workshop in “Health Technology Transfer models and case studies” in the day before.

Registration is now open in the FORM

SCOPE

The seminar aims to bring together students and researchers who follow user centric approaches in any of the phases of the R&D cycle (understand, design, prototype and validation). This seminar welcomes extended abstracts reporting ongoing or consolidated R&D studies targeting all user populations, including those with specific health conditions. The participants are also invited to attend a workshop on “Health Technology Transfer models and case studies”, which will precede the seminar.

WORKSHOP | HEALTH TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER MODELS AND CASE STUDIES

Technology transfer can take place between universities, businesses and governments, either formally or informally, to share skills, knowledge, technologies, manufacturing methods, and more. This form of knowledge transfer helps ensure that scientific and technological developments are available to a wider range of users who can then help develop or exploit it.

The commercial exploitation can involve the creation of joint ventures, licensing agreements and partnerships to share the risks and rewards. This can also be coupled with the raising of venture capital.

An important part of tech transfer is also the protection of intellectual property (IP) associated with innovations developed at research institutions. This can mean licensing patented intellectual property to outside businesses or the creation of start-up companies to license the IP.

In this workshop discussions will revolve around the Technology Transfer frameworks and good practices that have proven be successful in different innovation ecosystems. It will be applied a Technology Transfer model based on a three step process to different use cases: the registration of patents, copyrights, trademarks & designs; the proof-of-concept and the securing of seed funding.

Doctor Joana Feijó

Business Development Director
Health Cluster Portugal

Joana Feijó holds a degree in Microbiology from the Catholic University, a master’s degree in Basic and Molecular Biology and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from ICBAS. Near 20 years of her professional career were spent in the private sector working on business strategy, product development and commercialization in the Healthcare industry. From 2015-2018 Joana has been developing a tech start-up on the Tourism area aside with consultancy projects on the Healthcare sector. Joana worked at CRITICAL Group between 2009-2015, where she has passed through different companies: from Critical Health & Oncaring, through Critical Software and Coimbra Genomics. Before joining CRITICAL, Joana has worked 3 years at ALERT Life Sciences Computing, as the Director of Clinical Content and Functional Analysis Dept. During those years, she has worked on the company internationalization to the BR, USA, UK and NL markets. Joana is now part of the Health Cluster Portugal (HCP) Executive team as Business Development Director.

FEES

Seminar Registration until Jan 14-2022:
15€ student | 25€ SC member | 30€ others

Workshop Registration until Jan 14-2022:
50€ student or SC member registered in ehSemi
70€ student or SC member not registered in ehSemi
70€ others registered in ehSemi
90€ others not registered in ehSemi

REGISTRATION

Please go to the form to make your seminar registration.

More information available HERE

For questions please contact deca-ehealthseminar@ua.pt

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