Innovative Technology for Healthy Living

The master’s programme in Innovative Technology for Healthy Living is a collaboration between EIT Health Partners from academia, research centres and industry. The programme will foster a new generation of master’s graduates with advanced skills and approaches within health-related engineering and innovation. The overall aim of the programme is to equip students with the skills to develop technical and business solutions for healthy living and active ageing. Their work will encourage good health habits in the general population and promote the future wellness of all citizens. A major goal is to enable future scientists and entrepreneurs to create engineering and business solutions that make it possible for citizens to monitor and manage their own health by being informed and skilled in making wellness-driven choices. The academic faculty involved in the design of the programme has the knowledge and experience to develop, plan and implement sport and exercise activities for individuals (athletes, non-athletes and those with more sedentary lifestyles), and monitor the effects or the impact of such involvement and participation on their health and well-being, using evidence based on anthropometric, biomechanical, biochemical, physiological and psychological parameters. Today’s rapid developments in sensor technology, mobile data acquisition, improved risk assessment methodologies combined with Big Data analysis allow the development of pervasive and personalised solutions. The potential with these personalised solutions can span all levels, from cellular through organismic to systemic.The curriculum includes not only traditional theoretical and practical training gained from the scientific knowledge of the partners involved, but also courses that implement active learning and teaching strategies, team collaboration, aligned teaching, ideation, project management and entrepreneurship skills gained outside the university setting. Challenges within the multidisciplinary areas associated with healthy living and active ageing, and that relate directly to innovation and entrepreneurship, include personalised lifestyle plans. The programme combines advanced scientific education, entrepreneurship training, innovation workshops and round tables, learning-by-doing education as well as offering mobility schemes tailored to the individual student.