Authored on 06/17/2024 - 14:20
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„Życie Uczelni” information bulletin of the TUL

The Hackathon HCK NA Health was organized by the Careers Office of the Medical University of Lodz, in cooperation with Lodz University of Technology, FUMED Foundation for the Medical University of Lodz, and the Student Government of UMed. The Careers Office of Lodz University of Technology, in collaboration with the TUL Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, also co-organized the event.

Written by mgr Irmina Kwiatek, TUL Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

During this year's, third edition of the event, students from Lodz University of Technology, the Medical University of Lodz, and the University of Lodz were confronted with new challenges. With the guidance of experienced mentors, who shared their knowledge on topics related to technologies, medtech, and opportunities related to starting up businesses, students worked on innovative solutions addressing problems submitted by the companies sponsoring the event. One of the Hackathon mentors was Marcin Wasiak from the TUL Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

The idea behind the Hackathon HCK FOR HEALTH was to have groups of students complete several tasks over the course of a few days. On the first day, students attended online workshops such as Career Prospect in Łódź 2024, an offering from the sponsors and partners of the event: Thinking Tools on tools for creating innovations,
Business Innovation Tools on business modeling, and Pitch Perfect on presenting innovations.

In the following days, students, under the guidance of mentors, worked on developing solutions for the challenges posed by the companies sponsoring the event.

The Finals

In the finals, held on June 9, 2024, the ten participating teams presented their solutions. Upon the vote of the jury, which included the Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, dr inż. Zbigniew Szamel, it emerged that it was the students of Lodz University of Technology who co-authored the best solutions and took the first three awards.

In third place were the students of the Faculty of Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Control Engineering (Aleksandra Bielińska, Tymur Huselnykov, Vladyslav Fedirko, Ernest Ilchenko, and Andrii Bialkovskyi from the MediVOX team) who, completing the task set by the Medical Magnus company, designed a tool for collecting feedback from patients.

The second award was granted to the SUPLI team (Bartosz Nowicki, Stanisław Marciniak, Krzysztof Muszyński, Wojciech Mokwiński), completing their degrees at IFE, who designed a mobile app allowing users to personalize nutrition programs and diets.

The main, first award, was awarded to another group of IFE students, the AppWave team (Mateusz Cieśliński, Mateusz Galiński, Jakub Dulas, Antoni Łubisz, Filip Fajfer), who, for PZU Zdrowie, developed a prototype of a solution to help reduce the number of failed medical appointments.

The students were awarded a total of 21 thousand złoty.