This is already the IV international scientific and practical conference organised by the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering (‘FBMI’) of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. This time, it brought together scientists, medical and engineering professionals from Ukraine, Australia, the USA, Italy and the Netherlands to discuss the prospects for the development of rehabilitation technologies and share best practices in training qualified rehabilitation specialists.
‘The theme of our traditional conference was formed at the intersection of two challenges - the pandemic and the war. This conference aims to provide answers to the question of how our university, our faculty, by bringing together scientists from all over the world, can solve the problems caused by these challenges,’ said Ihor Khudetskyi, Head of the Department of Biosafety and Human Health at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering (FBME) of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
One of the foreign participants of the conference, Guido Hendriks, chairman of the Dutch company Gyromotics, which manufactures individual high-tech foot prostheses for adults and children, signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering and the Faculty of Chemical Engineering of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
‘We will help your specialists to improve in the field of lower limb prosthetics, to find new solutions to make the prosthetic foot have even more functions and give even more mobility and freedom of movement,’ said Guido Hendriks, Chairman of the Dutch company Gyromotics.
The fundamental and practical research presented by Kyiv Polytechnics at the conference is aimed not only at strengthening biosecurity as a component of national security, but also at creating effective use cases and providing practical assistance to our military and civilians who have lost their health in the war.