ENERGHY - Energising Global Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Dates

28 June - 15 July 2021

Preu

875€ + University Taxes

Dedicació

Full Time

Modalitat

Online

Llengua

English

Crèdits

5 ECTS

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The digital revolution has the potential to improve health and empower patients, but it could also increase health inequities, shaping the economy and the society.

ENERGHY Summer School is a toolbox and a fresh experience to change perspective for a new generation of global health innovators. Designed to empower postgraduate students, researchers and young professionals to create new business models with global citizen-centric solutions aimed at democratizing health for all. 

What will you learn?

You will develop an entrepreneurial mindset; acquiring innovation, management and communication knowledge and skills to create a start-up. 

Uniqueness

• Motivated by the Sustainable Development Goals.
• “Learn-by-doing” with open discussions with entrepreneurs, tech transfer experts, spotlight speakers, real challenge-based workshops, real-life cases, challenge-based workshops, coaching, online toolbox and final pitch award. 
• Leverages talent putting together top hospitals, research, academia, tech transfer and industry partners from across Europe to jointly work on a unique course offer on global health transformation.
• Worldwide reach, with participants from around the globe and different backgrounds to enrich perspective and networking.

The ENERGHY partnership includes the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), University of Barcelona (UB), NUI-Galway BioInnovate Ireland, Sanofi-Espoir Foundation, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (HSJD) and Médecins sans Frontières (MSF).

 

 

 

 

Day 1 - Challenges in Global Health

• MORNING | How can innovation help reach the SDGs | Introduction to challenges
• AFTERNOON | Push creativity up, teambuilding.

Day 2 - Needs led Innovation

• MORNING | Challenge-based Field Visits to Sanofi Espoir, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu and Médecines Sans Frontières
• AFTERNOON | Problem statement definition 

Day 3 - Innovation for Health Equity

• MORNING | Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation: health access and equity through innovation buisness models 
• AFTERNOON | From research to innovation for impact

Day 4 - Moving to smart health

• MORNING | How to take discoveries out of the la: Intellectual property and transfer policy
• AFTERNOON | Needs driven innovation: Biodesign | Medical Technology Innovation

Day 5 - Innovation & Entrepreneurship: searching for opporunities

• MORNING | Start-Up financials; ups, downs, pitfalls and watch-outs of successful start-ups
• AFTERNOON | Opportunity validation

Day 6 - Market Discovery Validation: building successful value propositions

• MORNING | Customer discovery and profiling
• AFTERNOON | Valude proposition design and validation

Day 7 - Startup your business: Product Development and Business Design I

• MORNING | Patient validation | Prototyping: Minimum Valuable Product
• AFTERNOON | Spotlight talk Urban Health

Day 8 - Startup your business: Product Development and Business Design II

• MORNING | Expert Validation
• AFTERNOON | Business Model Generation

Day 9 - Start-Up your business: Financials and Investment

• MORNING | Understanding start-ups financials: from cost structures to revenue models
• AFTERNOON | Partnership business management and what investors want | Innovator Toolkit

Day 10 - Final Pitch Coaching

Flipping the pitch in collaboration with EIT Health Alumni | How to pitch a project

Day 11, 12, 13 - Pitch elaboration

Video pitch elaboration | Learner evaluation | Alumni registration

Day 14 - Pitch and awards ceremony

 

 

ENERGHY Summer Scool is a toolbox, experiential learning and the ground zero of a radical mindset transformation towards a new generation of young global health innovators. 

The course will lead learners from science to market leveraging:

• Live cases with entrepreneurs, tech transfer experts and spotlight speakers to increase awareness on Global Health challenges and how innovation is playing a main role to tackle Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• Challenge-based workshops and team work, in which a real Global Health challenge will be proposed by ENERGHY Partners for learners to develop in teams an innovative and sustainable business model guided by coachers.
• Challenge-based visits to Médecins sans Frontières, Sant Joan de Déu Pediatric Hospital, Sanofi-Espoir and Barcelona Health Hub in Barcelona (½ day visits) to interact with hands-on innovators.
• Online Toolbox on entrepreneurship
• Network stimulation
• Final Pitch and Awards
• Post-programme mentoring of the 3 best projects with 6 months access to NUI-G LaunchPad or StartUB! Sprint

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the need for innovation to tackle main Global Health challenges and reach Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• Apply an entrepreneurial mindset to drive Global Health innovation.
• Analyse innovative business models for better access, equity and sustainability in healthcare.
• Develop effective strategies to fully leverage digital transformation in Global health.
• Develop a critical mindset by acquiring entrepreneurship and management knowledge and skills to start-up a business.
• Develop effective communication skills to deliver a winning pitch.

 

Skills addressed

• Management & Leadership: developing positivity, creativity, teambuilding, collaboration and emotional intelligence to create targeted solutions.
• Inter-professional & Multidisciplinary approach: interacting with faculty and participants from different geographical, educational (i.e. life/medical science, public health, bioengineering, social sciences) and professional backgrounds (academia, research, healthcare, medtech, tech transfer).
• Entrepreneurship & Innovation : identifying uncovered needs and designing innovative and profitable business models.
• Critical Thinking & Decision Making: increasing awareness on the challenges and deliver effective solutions through co-creation, opportunity validation, customer discovery, minimum valuable product and business model definition, iteration and pivoting process.
• Interpersonal & Citizen-oriented: bringing together as a team a citizen-centred solution to the market.
• Needs-driven innovation: applying design thinking and business model canvas methodologies.
• Communication: performing a convincing pitch.

Participants

ENERGHY is addressed to:

• MSc and PhD students
• Postgraduates
• Postdoctoral researchers
• Young entrepreneurs and professionals interested in Global Health coming from different disciplines.

Motivated to lead change in Global Health and coming from different disciplines. 

Application

Please complete the Application Form. 

The notification of admissions will be done on a monthly basis.

Applications received between the 1st and the 23rd of the month will be communicated on the last day of the same month.

Applications received between the 23rd and the last day of a month will be communicated on the last day of the following month.