Last May, Abel Hailegiorgis – the founder of Bamboo Things – came to Munich from Ethiopia to visit and work in a Bamboo Bicycle Club workshop. MTOWS supported him with networking and his daily life in Germany and he presented us his main project: the production of affordable bamboo wheelchairs. As […]
Yearly Archives: 2019
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Our last but not least project of the Global Health Challenge is about optimizing the life cycle of medical devices. What is the problem and who is suffering because of it? In this project we look more closely at the problem that many, otherwise functional, donated medical devices can not be used […]
In this post we’re introducing you to the team m3dical open library, which is a project that was developed during our Global Health Challenge. What is the problem and who is suffering because of it? The solution: Infrastructure of 3D printing labs in Africa working principle of the website Workflow conventional […]
In today’s post we bring you another project developed for our first edition of the Global Health Challenge: FAST, the First Aid Scooter Tech. What is the problem and who is suffering because of it? This development is a solution for a problem in many cities, in which due to the […]
Our first Global Health Challenge is over! We had our final pitch day in the beginning of July, after 2 months of hard work. Four teams came up with some amazing prototypes and presented their ideas in front of a jury consisting of Dr. Eblenkamp (head of MedTech chair at […]
Max Schlegel and Adrian Holste are two members of MTOWs who have been writing their Master Theses in Ethiopia from November 2018 until April 2019. In this interview they talk about their amazing stay there and they invite other students to live the same experience as them. How did the […]
On April 10th, five members of MedTech OneWorld Students (MTOWS) visited Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to follow up on our existing partnerships and get in touch with potential future partners. They were joined by Adrian and Max, two other members of MTOWS, who had stayed in Ethiopia for l six months […]
In the next semester, MedTech OneWord Students is launching the Global Health Challenge. Within 2.5 months, students will develop medical devices in the context of Global Health. Therefore, on the Pitch-Day, participating students will present their ideas for the projects they want to work on and find team members who’ll […]
Global Health (GH) Winter School was held from 12th to 15th February in Munich at the TranslaTUM. The goal of this seminar was to introduce the students in the field of Global Health in terms of research and political relevance. For the first time, medicine and engineering students worked together […]