12th Medtec Summer Academy: Medical Technology in the Heart of Waldviertel
19 August, 2024
Intensive workshops and expert exchanges characterized the MedTec Summer Academy for medical technology students from all over the world in the Waldviertel. It was organized by the Technikum Wien Academy.
This year, the MedTec Summer Academy took place for the 12th time in the heart of the Waldviertel. From June 30 to July 6, students, lecturers and industry and research partners met at the Kunsthaus in Horn. The MedTec Summer Academy is open to all Bachelor’s and Master’s students from the field of medical technology.
Current issues in medical technology
30 selected students spent a week working intensively on current issues from various areas of medical technology. The focus was on workshops for working on company projects, supplemented by keynote speeches, opportunities to exchange ideas with experts from industry and research and a varied supporting program.
This year’s participants came not only from Austrian universities of applied sciences and universities, but also from Germany, South Africa and Ukraine. Thanks to the cooperation with the OEAD cooperation office in Lviv and the Association for the Promotion of Biomedical Engineering in Europe, five Ukrainian students were once again able to take part in the MedTec Summer Academy. This initiative is intended to promote future cooperation in the field of medical technology and medical IT with the Ukrainian Catholic University and further advance the international orientation of the MedTec Summer Academy.
Highlights and special guests
The highlights once again included special guests:
Philipp Hainzl – LISAvienna
Michaela Malaskova – Health Hub Tirol
Silvio Di Nardo – HSLU Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Matthias Scherer – AGES
Roman Schlintner – Saphenus Medical
Alexander Mildner – Sportmed Austria
Matthias Nemec – Lohmann & Rauscher
Poppy Abeto Kiesse – GS1
Harald Riedl – Vamed
Dominic Schum – Medel
Andreas Karolyi – Otto Bock
The projects of this year’s Summer Academy were provided by the following companies and institutions, among others:
Lohmann & Rauscher Austria
Saphenus Medical Technology
ImageBiopsy Lab
Sportmed Austria
Research project BERTL (UAS Technikum Wien)
MedTech MR research project (UAS Technikum Wien)
Organization: MedTec Summer Academy, Technikum Wien Academy and Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering
The MedTec Summer Academy is organized by the core team of the MedTec Summer Academy, the Technikum Wien Academy and the Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering (ÖGBMT). The program is funded by Government of Lower Austria (Land Niederösterreich) and supported by numerous top-class partners from industry and research.
The MedTech-mR project is funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) in the COIN programme line with funds from the Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW). The BERTL (Barrierfree dEsign foR Teaching and Learning) project is funded by MA23 – Economy, Labor and Statistics of the City of Vienna.
Further links:
Procedure and content of the MedTec Summer Academy
Research project MedTech MR (UAS Technikum Wien)
Research project BERTL (UAS Technikum Wien)
COIN Cooperation & Innovation – FFG
Query note:
FH-Prof. DI Dr. Johannes Martinek
Head of department
T: +43 1 333 40 77 – 2291
H: +43 664 619 25 76
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