EssentialTech Centre

How can sensor technology impact healthcare and global health? This was the question explored at the University of Cambridge Sensors Day 2021.

EssentialTech’s Director Klaus and Deputy Director Sol were both on hand with keynote addresses. Klaus’s presentation focused on how technologies designed for high-income countries are often unable to deliver if simply deployed as-is in low- and middle- income countries – but that when you account for context, needs can be better met anywhere.

Soli provided insights into the importance of local manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa for essential medical products. This would help alleviate the reliance on international supply chains, whose fragility has been exposed by COVID. 👇

Learn more here: https://cdt.sensors.cam.ac.uk/events/sensors-day-2021

La toute nouvelle Convergence, qui rassemble les acteur-ices engagées dans la durabilité sociale ou environnementale sur le campus de l’EPFL propose son tout premier événement le samedi 16 octobre, La Rentrée de la Durabilité !

Nous serons de la partie avec l’animation d’un workshop dès 13h, rejoignez-nous, les inscriptions sont encore ouvertes !

La Convergence brings together actors involved in social and environmental sustainability on the EPFL campus. Its very first event, La Rentrée de la Durabilité, will happen this Saturday, October 16.

We will be there with a workshop starting at 1 p.m., so join us. Registration is still open!

Registration to the event 👉 https://linktr.ee/laconvergence
More information 👉 https://www.instagram.com/la.convergence/

This is Jhon Harly and he’s hard at work stocking the stands on campus with the latest edition of EPFL’s Dimensions magazine...

And this edition has not 1 but 3️ articles featuring EssentialTech. Our Director Klaus Schonenberger was profiled in “my object”, X-ray technology and its "human imprint; there's an article about the Robustnest incubator from our GlobalNeoNat team; and Cara Tobin discussed the challenges of water and sanitation in in an article on water pollution - part of the front page feature series. (This edition is green in more ways than one 📗!)

Congratulations to EPFL’s Mediacom for their hard work on this mag👏. Thanks for helping us share our perspectives, research and innovative solutions to help improve peoples' lives around the world with essential technologies!

Special thanks to Jhon H.V.M. for the photograph!

What do action 💓 and 🚀have in common? It's not JUST that our Smart PPE looks like a space suit!👩‍🚀 With humanitarian needs at record highs since WW2, we must leverage all the best essential technologies to meet these needs. Recognizing that their technology and expertise is relevant, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) launched (🚀pun not intended) the DLR Humanitarian Technology Initiative, HumTech to "encourage its researchers and engineers to work more closely with the humanitarian sector and to jointly develop technology support projects." We are proud to have our Humanitarian lead Grégoire Castella presenting at this year's DLR HumTech Day! 👏👏👏
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UN World Habitat Day is all about the basic right to adequate shelter 🏘️ 🏠🌍. In Haiti, you have to ask: How do you begin to address that in a country where tropical storms, earthquakes and hurricanes meet with poor infrastructure and political unrest? EPFL EssentialTech Centre’s Kay Nou Tek initiative uses digital tools to support vocational training and sustainable construction. 👇👇👇Solisyon Entelijan !
Local partner: Université Quisqueya. Supported by Swiss Development & Cooperation.
See 👀:
https://kaynoutek.medium.com
www.facebook.com/Kay-Nou-Tek-107699791543918/
www.youtube.com/channel/UCqB6XDFlIXEjnhblWlxQgPA

🙏 GRAZIE 🙏 to the Lugano Commodity Trading Association for the invitation to share EssentialTech Centre's mission! Nathalie Morandini - Siegrist spoke at the Sept 29 Commodity Roundtable about our work bringing solutions to meet needs in low- and middle- income countries, combining innovation and entrepreneurship.

Thanks EPFL for the great article on RobustNest (GlobalNeoNat project). Congrats to our team Christine Gaulis Silvan Suter Michel Rochat, as well as all our vital partners.

This incubator is getting ever-closer to production and saving infants' lives!

👉 https://lnkd.in/gY5cKNdS

RobustNest, an incubator designed especially for Sub-Saharan Africa The project designed at ECAL for the GlobalNeonNat project led by EPFL's EssentialTech Center is garnering attention – and awards – at international design shows.

Why design PPE for Ebola in 2021? Because we've learned it's always important to be prepared for the next epidemic. Case in point: According to the WHO, Congo is currently experiencing an Ebola outbreak while still fighting, like the rest of the world, COVID-19. EssentialTech's state-of-the-art Smart PPE will literally change the face of PPE.

On World Peace Day, EssentialTech's Mariazel Maqueda López calls upon organizations working in peace promotion to break sectorial silos and bridge interdisciplinary capacities to complement expertise and accelerate the achievement of sustained peace for all. Read the article here:

EssentialTech Centre on LinkedIn: Reflections on World Peace Day: PeaceTech’s role among solutions What does peace mean to you? On World Peace Day, EssentialTech's Mariazel Maqueda López, Head of the PeaceTech Division, shares thoughts. EPFL (École polytechnique...

Equal pay is intricately linked to gender-based violence. 😔 How? In the workplace, harassment, abuse and violence contribute to women taking leave or changing jobs, resulting in gaps and lowering salaries over the course of their careers. Conversely, being paid a fair wage empowers 💪 those in abusive relationships to know they can leave. Among the many reasons why we can’t wait 257 years to achieve gender wage parity (that’s how long it’d take at the current rate). This Sept 18 UN International Equal Pay Day, we’re thinking 💡 about .



Images © ICRC

enterprise Okalihera in helps local entrepreneurs become taxi drivers. In exchange, they take pregnant women to health facilities for free. 200+ women helped in 2019 !

Students from The Graduate Institute, Geneva interviewed Michael Hobbins from EssentialTech’s Oka Taxi project to learn how the approach means sustainable impact.

SolidarMed and Swiss Solidarity support this project.

👉 Watch here: https://youtu.be/zRmlJpW14cU