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Bert is an experienced Digital Health and Innovation Leader. He successfully initiated and led multiple, transformational innovation projects with the goal to shape the future of clinical trials, to make trials more attractive to participants and to improve the...
Brought to you by Daniel Millet from GRIN One of the smallest DiCE partners is Norwegian circular tech start-up, GRIN. The company was founded in Oslo in 2018 based on the notion that if the world is going to reach any environmental targets, whether it’s CO2...
Moving Towards More Circular and Sustainable Digital Health Devices Brought to you by Erasmo Cadena, Lieselot Boone and Naomi Muindi from Ghent University (UGENT) The use of digital health devices has increased in recent years; however, their impact on...
Brought to you by René Luigies from Games for Health Human beings tend to stick to daily routines and old habits. This makes them feel comfortable and secure resulting in a particular behaviour of a person or a group of persons. Behavioural science primarily seeks to...
Brought to you by Mª José Hernández, Rosa Almeida and Elisa Sáez from the INTRAS Foundation Engaging end-users of digital health devices in the reverse logistics process fosters solidarity by encouraging the responsible use of health resources as well as proper...
Brought to you by Borut Bernat from EKOSIJ Aiming to educate the Slovenian population about hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (EEE), the negative environmental impacts of improper disposal and the benefits of recycling, ZEOS (and...
Brought to you by Andreas Wieland, Attila Márton, Christiane Lehrer from Copenhagen Business School and Camille Rønn, Daniel Fürstenau from IT University of Copenhagen The transition to sustainability has increasingly become a focal point in various sectors,...
The project’s first year illuminated the path to circular design in digital health devices while simultaneously pushing the boundaries of sustainability in health care. The Consortium’s efforts were driven by a shared commitment to reducing environmental impact and...
Myriam Ertz is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Director of LaboNFC, and Tier-2 Canada Research Chair in Technology, Sustainability, and Society. She is a recipient of MDPI’s Social Sciences 2020 Young Investigator Award...
With over 15 years of experience in sustainability science, Daniela Pigosso is passionate about advancing the knowledge and practice of sustainable design, rebound effects and circular economy. As Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), she...
DiCE, OVAM, and Bebat joined forces ahead of the publication of “Onderzoek rond eenmalige medische apparatuur die batterijen bevat” to bring industry professionals and policymakers together for an interactive workshop and networking event at UZ Gent. Dutch speaking...
A pharma executive gone digital. Medical product development executive (medicines and tech) with 18 years of experience within global pharma, based in Europe and US. Several successful NDA, sNDAs and MAA within diabetes and cardio metabolic disorders as well as CE...
Dr. Harald Desing studied mechanical engineering at Technical University of Munich and tested his skills in industry and development cooperation. He finished his PhD at Empa and ETH Zürich on conditions and opportunities of a circular...
Cristina is a Partner at ERM with experience in change management, program & project management, facilitation and coaching as well as multi-stakeholder engagement. She supports ERM clients in large, complex sustainability journeys, energy transition projects and...
Fundación Ecolec is a not-for-profit organisation that manages the extended producer responsibility of producers of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) in Spain. As such, it ensures the collection and proper recovery and recycling of wastes arising for EEE,...
Upon invitation of World Resources Forum, DiCE partners headed to Geneva for their second presential consortium meeting and live workshops in the first week of September. During the two-day long meeting, participants received a comprehensive update of all work...
TU Delft, is the oldest and largest technical university in the Netherlands aiming to make an impact for a better society. The university offers 16 bachelor's and more than 30 master's degree programs across eight faculties. https://youtu.be/xPiqgfq7ItA We...
The World Resources Forum (WRF) is an international non-profit organisation mobilising concerted action to promote sustainability and fairness in the global use of natural resources. Through their multi-stakeholder conferences and projects, they strive to scale up...
Shortly after three successful Sustain-a-thon sessions in Belgium, Spain and Slovenia, DiCE partners (Games for Health, LiCalab, Intras, Regional Development Agency of Podravje - Maribor) have reunited to kick off the next phase: design sprints. Following from...
CBS is a globally recognised business school, focusing on high-quality interdisciplinary research and education as well as addressing critical complex challenges. https://youtu.be/esxdGjXwo8A We asked Attila Márton, Digital Ecologist and Associate Professor in...
The third sustain-a-thon of DiCE, organised by Games for Health and INTRAS Foundation took place in Valladolid, Spain on April 13th. This participatory activity, similarly, to the previous events, aimed to explore how...
If all e-waste collected in Slovenia in 2022 was loaded onto lorries, the line would stretch as far as 30 kilometres. Zeos, a non-profit organisation founded by Slovenian producers and retailers of electrical and electronic equipment, has been ringing the alarm bell...
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Well-designed health devices can save human lives. However, they also make a large contribution to the expanding quantity of global (e-)waste and thus climate change, which the WHO describes as “the biggest health threat facing humanity”. Circular strategies for these...
On Thursday, 23 February, DiCE partners, LiCalab and Games for Health organised the first sustain-a-thon of its kind in Belgium. The event focussed on two questions: how do we reduce the impact of medical e-waste on the environment and how do we develop circular...
Launched in October 2022, the Digital Health in a Circular Economy (DiCE) project, led by Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, aims to address the issue of increasing digital health waste. It will do so by targeting every point in the lifecycle of digital health devices from...