Corina Cimpanu: Smart Health, Smart Earth
The proposed interactive workshop explores how digital health innovations can drive sustainability in healthcare. Participants act as “Green Health Innovation Startups,” designing e-health projects—such as telemedicine platforms, remote patient monitoring, or digital record systems—that reduce resource use, emissions, and waste while improving patient access and care quality. Through a gamified format, teams face real-world scenarios and surprise challenges, using mini project plans to balance innovation, feasibility, and measurable sustainability impact. A fast-paced “Pitch Battle” lets teams showcase their projects in 60 seconds, with participants voting for the most innovative, sustainable, and well-managed solutions.
The session combines project management principles with creative problem-solving, ethical decision-making, and sustainability metrics, showing how smart design can simultaneously enhance healthcare delivery and environmental responsibility. Participants leave with practical strategies to embed sustainability in digital health projects, tools to measure impact, and an appreciation of how innovation can heal both patients and the planet.
Staff Academy workshops
The INGENIUM Alliance organises Staff Academy workshops to share, transfer and showcase selected innovative pedagogical methodologies from the partner Universities. Each Staff Academy event has ten individual sessions, lasting an hour, with one from each partner university. The Staff Academy sessions are based on proposals submitted by Alliance staff implementing innovative learning methodologies or wishing to develop them in cooperation with INGENIUM partners.
Staff Academy workshops allow participants to gain and enhance their teaching and facilitation skills by providing additional time for hands-on learning and interaction with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and fields. It will also provide an appropriate framework for knowledge sharing and transfer, offer new networking opportunities, and open avenues for enhanced cooperation with the Alliance.
