2024
October: Participation to the Festival della Scienza in Genoa with two initiatives: "Mi ingegno per la Salute" e "Voglio fare il Chirurgo". Nearly 3000 people could try some of our prototypes.
October: Seminar and lab visit for Bioengineering e Robotics Engineering masters' students within the Biomedical Robotics class
October: Attendance to the Italian Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM; Alice Catalano)
June: Participation to the Annual Meeting of the Society for Simulation in Europe (Serena Ricci)
June: Participation to the Summer School organized by the Pediatric Specialty School of the University of Genoa (speakers: Mara Coduri, Andrea Calandrino)
June: Serena Ricci wins the Galileo Galilei International Prize by Rotary for her experience in the Simulation field
May: The JETS Lab and the students of the "Simulation in Medicine" course visited the Simulation Center and the 3D Innovation Hub of the Humanitas University (Milan)
May: Seminar and visit to the Lab for students of the Degree Course in Cardiovascular Pathophysiology Techniques and Cardiovascular Perfusion withing the course of Electronic and Computer Bioengineering.
May: Pathways for Transversal Skills and Orientation (PCTO) aimed at secondary school students
April: Exercises for the Medical Simulation course (Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Engineering). Instructors: Serena Ricci, Claudia Presicci, Mara Coduri, Luca Testa. Duration: 12 hours
April: Internship for Bioengineering students, within the "Research Track" course. Students: Sara Benevieri Innocenti, Benedetta Sofia Barroero Pardocchi, Elisa Cornazzani, Maia Zappia
April: Research Grant, title: "Use of new technologies for training and evaluation of medical-surgical skills through medical simulation. Duration: 4 months. Researcher: Luca Testa
February: Participation in the IRST Lego League organized in Italy by the Civic Museum Foundation of Rovereto - as judges (Alice Maria Catalano)
February: Visiting resercher Giulio Dagnino from the University of Twente, Netherlands
February: Second edition of the Course in Medical Simulation, within the Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Engineering.
January: Approval by the DIBRIS Ethics Committee - Evaluation of the usability and effectiveness of mixed reality systems for the training of medical personnel.
2023
December: Framework agreement signed with the company Simulkare to carry out joint projects on topics related to advanced simulation in medicine
November: PhD Position in Robotics and Intelligent Machines: Alice Maria Catalano
November: Seminar about medical simulation in medicine for UniGe senior
November: Seminars about Advanced Simulation in Medicine for the Biomedical Robotics course (Robotics Engineering and Bioengineering)
October: the lab attended SIMMED 2023 in Genova and won the best abstract "The use of simulation in Virtual Reality to treat psychopathologies: where do we stand?"
October: Intervention for NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) during the Innovation Days titled: “Combining sensors to VR Applications”
September: Webinar titled "Immersive Technologies, Virtual Reality and Medical Simulation, where do we stand?" organized by the Italian Society for Simulation in Medicine (SIMMED)
June: Collaboration with the Biomedical Robotics Laboratory of the Italian Institute of Technology to validate a low cost simulator of the Da Vinci robot
June: Internship for Bioengineering students, within the “Research Track” course. Studentis Alessia Gestro, Elisabetta Maria Malandra, Marta Pisoni, Mariam Rizki, Mehrab Keramati Sheyjani, Federica Tignonsini
June: Participation in the Congress of the National Bioengineering Group (Serena Ricci)
June: Participation in the Annual meeting of the Society for Simulation in Europe (Serena Ricci, Mara Coduri, Andrea Calandrino)
May: Renewal of the joint laboratory SimAv - DIBRIS
May: Seminar within the Academy for Healthcare Management - AMAS, Serena Ricci
May: Participation in the Robotics Olympiad (Mara Coduri, Alessandra Oliveri)
May: Pathways for Transversal Skills and Orientation (PCTO) oriented to secondary school students.
April: Exercises of the course Simulation in Medicine (Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering). Exercisers: Serena Ricci, Claudia Presicci, Mara Coduri, Alessandra Oliveri, Duration: 10 hours
April: Research Fellowship, title: Use of new technologies for medical-surgical training. Duration 4 months. Fellow: Alessandra Oliveri
March: Multiplier Event of the ERASMUS+RODEO project, for high school students and teachers
February: Start of the Course in Simulation in Medicine, taught by Serena Ricci, within the Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering
February: Start of ELVIS prototype validation activities - Educational Laparoscopy with Visual Instructive Simulation and Robotics
February: Webinar for SIMMED IMSH Society viewed by the Physician and Engineer (Serena Ricci)
January: Workshop at the International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare: Virtual and Augmented Reality for simulation: a tech guide for healthcare professionals (Serena Ricci, Mara Coduri)
2022
December: Seminar for the Bachelor of Science in Pediatric Nursing courseSimulation in Medicine. Techniques and Technologies for Learning Medical Skills (Serena Ricci, Mara Coduri, Andrea Calandrino)
December: Ethics Committee approval DIBRIS ADRIS - Accessible Driving Simulator. Usability evaluation of a virtual reality-based driving simulator for training and evaluation of driving skills (Head Maura Casadio)
November: Joint Ph.D. in Pediatric Sciences on topics related to neonatal emergency management. PhD student: Andrea Calandrino
September: Giulia Addiego Mobilio won the GNB award with the thesis: "Development of a mixed-reality system for learning neonatal first aid maneuvers," developed at the JETS laborario.
September: Internship for Bioengineering students, as part of the "Research Track" course. Students: Michele di Lucchio, Beatrice Lastrico, Letizia Cerutti, Monica Parodi, Emanuele Aimi
July: Participation in the School of Neuroengineering with laboratory activity: "Vision-Based Haptic Guidance in Robot-Assisted Endovascular Applications." In collaboration with Giulio Dagnino
June: Internship for students belonging to foreign universities. Students: Cameron Chan (City University of New York, USA), Alin Gabriel Neculae (Politehnica University of Bucharest, RO)
June: Participation in the Annual meeting of the Society for Simulation in Europe (Serena Ricci, best oral presentation award)
May: Mara Coduri wins "Best Abstract" R STEVE: mixed reality simulator for trauma management"
May: Workshop at SIMMED National Congress: "The use of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality for the realization of high-fidelity scenarios" (Andrea Calandrino, Mara Coduri, Serena Ricci)
March: Signing of an academic cooperation agreement with FH Technikum Wien, Austria, on topics related to the use of new technologies to improve medical training.
February: Kick off Erasmus+ ROaD Education project.
February: RTDa position under the National Research and Innovation Operational Program 2014-2020. Researcher: Serena Ricci
January: PhD fellowship under the National Research and Innovation Operational Program 2014-2020. PhD student: Mara Coduri
2021
December: Start of ROaD EducatiOn Erasmsus + KA220-SCH project - Cooperation partnerships in school education
October: Participation in the Science Festival with a workshop in collaboration with DISC (Oggi il Chirurgo sei tu!) and a seminar (Medici 2.0, Serena Ricci and Giacomo Borgonovo)
September: Talk for NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) during Innovation Days entitled: "Combining sensors to VR Applications"
July: Television report for STEM, Rai cultura
June: Speech at SIMMED National Congress: "Technical aspects of implementing Telesimulation in the post-COVID "new normal.""
May: First Lab Meeting of SimAv attended by Center staff and members of the research labs
March: Speech for School of Robotics within the FutureTech 2030 project.
January: Speech titled "Bioengineering at the service of medical education: the SimAv project" during the meeting "Young Biomedical Engineers on the Way" organized by the Order of Engineers of Genoa.
2020
December: Speech at The Forum Risk Management in Healthcare within the working session organized by SIMMED entitled: Simulation in Medicine in the Time of Covid. Title of the talk: New technologies in simulation. Speaker: Serena Ricci
October: Seminars on advanced simulation in Medicine, within the Biomedical Robotics (Robotics Engineering) course
May: DIBRIS Ethics Committee approval Evaluation of the usability of virtual and mixed reality systems for training medical personnel
January-March: Interventions on the topic during orientation projects, particularly for PCTO (formerly Alternanza Scuolo Lavoro) activities carried out at SimAv with high schools
2019
November-December: Biomedical Robotics Exercise (Master's degree courses in Bioengineering and Robotics Engineering). Tutors: Serena Ricci, Giulia Ballardini. Duration: Approximately 20 meetings of 4 hours.
November: Speech at The Forum Risk Management in Healthcare within the working session organized by SIMMED entitled: Changing Healthcare. Talk title: Bioengineering and innovation in simulation. Speaker: Serena Ricci
October: Serena Ricci wins the "I'll Tell You About My Project" award organized by Friends of the Science Festival. Project title: "eBSim Low Cost Birthing Simulator."
October: Three Seminars on Advanced Simulation in Medicine, within the course Biomedical Robotics (Bioengineering and Robotic Engineering)
September: Research Grant funds PO_FSE 2014/2020 title: Development and validation of new advanced simulation technologies for training and planning of diagnostic and operational interventions in medicine. Duration 2 years. Assignee: Serena Ricci
May: Laboratory Establishment