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SDG Summer School 2021:\u00a0Open Source Health Solutions<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Key Information<\/h2>\n

Dates<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a05 July \u2013 30 July 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: Geneva SDG Solution Space, in the heart of International Geneva, and at partner sites around the world.<\/p>\n

Theme:\u00a0<\/strong>Tackling health challenges set by partner organisations with open-source hardware and software solutions.<\/p>\n

Partners:<\/strong>\u00a0University of Geneva is teaming with the University of Paris and Yonsei University in Seoul.<\/p>\n

Format:<\/strong>\u00a0Students working in multidisciplinary teams guided by mentors from several Universities and International Organisations.<\/p>\n

Applicants:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Highly motivated high-school, undergraduate and Master students\u00a0are welcome to apply. You must be 16+ on 1 July 2021.<\/p>\n

Qualifications:<\/strong>\u00a0Students from all backgrounds are welcome, including science and technology, media and design, public health and business.<\/p>\n

Application:\u00a0<\/strong>opens 28 April and\u00a0closes 14 June<\/strong>.\u00a0[Link to application form]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Participation fee:\u00a0<\/strong>2000 CHF,\u00a0reduced fee of 1000 CHF for high-school students and 500 CHF for UNIGE students.<\/p>\n

Prizes:<\/strong>\u00a0Top teams can apply to our SDG Accelerator programme to support further development of their project.<\/p>\n

Certificates and credits:<\/strong>\u00a0All eligible participants obtain certificates of completion and successful completion of the SDG Summer School is equivalent to 6 ECTS. Students should verify with their Academic Advisor if their Faculty can recognise the credits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Educational Concept<\/h2>\n

The SDG Summer School is inspired by the growing sense of urgency worldwide to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs by 2030. We believe that we can enable today\u2019s youth to play an active and meaningful role in tackling these goals, through intensive hands-on team-based innovation challenges. In the SDG Summer School, teams of university students, in close collaboration with International Organisations in Geneva, conceive ways to use crowdsourcing technologies and low-cost open-source hardware and software solutions to achieve concrete steps towards the SDGs, at a local, regional or global level. The SDG Solution Space contains a fully equipped Fab lab with digital fabrication technologies.<\/p>\n

In the 2021 edition of the SDG Summer School, we are looking to build on the achievements of previous generations of students who have worked on Open Source Health Solutions, including:<\/p>\n

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  • Prototyping a hardware device<\/strong>\u00a0to help the seeing-impaired navigate city streets<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Developing a phone app<\/strong>\u00a0that supports early-stage cervical cancer detection<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Assisting health researchers with\u00a0rapid analysis of Covid publications<\/strong>\u00a0by developing a crowdsourcing tool<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Creating a business model<\/strong>\u00a0that provides women with free access to environmentally safe menstrual health products<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Mapping open source diagnostic tests<\/strong>\u00a0and local manufacturing of diagnostics in the Global South<\/li>\n
  • Developing a breathing game controller<\/strong>\u00a0for and with people in Geneva<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Mapping human-animal interactions<\/strong>\u00a0to prevent the next pandemic<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Creating an information package\u00a0on non-communicable diseases for an existing WHO open source app<\/li>\n
  • Developing a set of solutions to\u00a0make playtime in school more inclusive for children living with disabilities<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    All accepted participants will receive intensive mentoring and coaching to help transform these early-stage prototypes into impactful solutions and will become part of a global online community of young civic innovators. The SDG Summer School includes, to the extent Covid restrictions permit,\u00a0interactions with UN Agencies, International Organisations, NGOs, and other partnering organisations in Geneva.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Contact Us<\/h2>\n

    For all inquiries about the 2021 SDG Summer School, contact\u00a0info@gt-initiative.org<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    For more information please open this link<\/p>\n

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