The year ahead will be full of activities within Mechatronics in Healthcare, an international collaboration initiative funded by HK-Dir (the Norwegian Ministry of Higher Education) through the UTFORSK program.
This project brings together academic partners from Norway, Brazil, Japan, and North America, with a shared goal: to enhance the quality and relevance of engineering education — particularly mechatronics programs applied to healthcare.
Our activities range from program-specific initiatives at OsloMet and the University of Brasilia, to events and opportunities open to a broader community of stakeholders, especially in Norway and Brazil.
As one recent example, we re-purposed laboratory activities to focus on healthcare applications, using educational exoskeletons from Auxivo alongside teaching-oriented tools from MathWorks — bringing real-world healthcare challenges directly into the classroom.
If you’d like to learn more or get involved, feel free to reach out via this form or by email directly with the project coordinators: Antonio Padilha Lanari Bo and Roberto de Souza Baptista.