The team of the University of Pécs won an international innovation bronze medal with a virtual pet that helps children with diabetes. The team of four Brazilian students studying in the city achieved an excellent result representing the Medical School Institute of Transdisciplinary Discoveries (ITD) - UP reported.
Hackathon is a new and extremely popular type of competition in academic-scientific circles. Participants need to find an operational digital solution to a given problem in a short time. It usually takes a day to get from the idea through design and development to a working, presentable prototype that requires very active, intensive work.
The organizer of the health-focused hackathon was the pan-European health innovation and research organization called EIT Health. The region is represented by UP ITD in a group bringing together 150 universities, research institutes, and companies. Accordingly, the institute could hold the first health idea competition of the University of Pécs, the winner of which qualified for the European finals.
The issue of childhood diabetes, the treatment of which has many difficulties and thus leaves a wide scope for innovative thinking, has been chosen as the central theme. Dozens of teams - Hungarian and foreign students - entered the competition, and the jury finally chose the idea of four Brazilian students as the best one. They could qualify for the continental finals where, achieving major success, they finished in third place.
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