Alumni meeting
Online DEAN Alumni Events - November 30, December 10 and January 12
On November 30, December 10 and January 12, WUR alumni are invited to join alumni in Canada, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and America as part of special online events for our DEAN communities in the countries.
Technological innovations are essential in the transition to a resilient, safe and sustainable future. Last month, the Federation of Dutch technical research universities (4TU) organized the Techrede which was a call for innovation, action and cooperation to address the pressing challenges the world faces. The DEAN online world tour continues with three global virtual events highlighting unique changemakers among our TU researchers who are addressing this call by transforming healthcare, energy and food production.
During these special interactive gatherings you will have a chance to learn more about what your universities are doing to change how we will live not only tomorrow but today while exploring the roles we can all play in realizing a better future. Join one or more of the events below to also meet fellow alumni from DEAN communities in Canada, France, Germany, the Nordics, Spain, Switzerland, and the USA. Whether it’s breakfast, lunch or dinner in your time zone it’s food for thought and we hope to see you!
More information about the sessions can be found below.
Programme
Monique Tabak (UT): Offering not just more care but targeted individualized care!
DATE: 30 November 2020
LANGUAGE: English
Please note that we have a maximum capacity of 100 participants for this activity, if necessary a waiting list will be created.
Using ICT in healthcare – eHealth – is a promising strategy to improve healthcare worldwide. Every individual, dealing with a condition presents a distinctly unique case, highlighting the need for personalized eHealth technology. How can we benefit from monitoring data and smart analyses to make timely decisions and provide personalized care when needed? Imagine for example a virtual world of eHealth where care is offered by your virtual coach or within a virtual body. Researchers from the University of Twente’s TechMed Centre use the eHealth House to develop such new forms of smart eHealth technologies. In this simulated living lab, technology is tested in a realistic but controlled setting. UT researcher Monique Tabak gives us a peek into the innovations we can expect to see soon in the real world.
Gerdien de Vries (TUD): sustainable behaviour
DATE: 10 December 2020
LANGUAGE: English
Please note that we have a maximum capacity of 100 participants for this activity, if necessary a waiting list will be created.
More information will follow soon.
Koen Klompe (WUR): Producing more with less and better!
DATE: 12 January 2021
LANGUAGE: English
Please note that we have a maximum capacity of 100 participants for this activity, if necessary a waiting list will be created.
Automation and robotization were until recently primarily used in industry but that knowledge can now also be used in agriculture. Satellite navigation, robots, AI, infrared cameras, drones and sensors in the ground means that cultivating on a micro plot scale is quickly becoming a reality. We are only at the start of what is possible in agriculture with technology precisely measuring what happens in a plant. Is it sick and does it need treatment? Is it too dry and does it need irrigation? Is it a weed that should be removed? Discover how these elements are coming together at Wageningen University’s Farm of the Future with the farm’s manager Koen Klompe also a practical researcher on sustainable arable farming.