Students and companies meet in the 2nd Talent Forum in Biomedical Engineering

Picture from last year’s meeting, held in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the UB.
Picture from last year’s meeting, held in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the UB.
Academic
(13/03/2018)

More than 250 students and graduates in Biomedical Engineering and more than twenty companies and institutions of the sector will take part in the second edition of the Talent Forum in Biomedical Engineering, to be held on Wednesday, March 14, at the Barcelona East School of Engineering (EEBE) of UPC, in Building A in Campus Diagonal Besòs (av. Eduard Maristany, 16, Barcelona). The activity will be organized by the UPC, the UB and UPF, together with the Spanish Federation of Healthcare Technology Companies (FENIN) and Catalonia Bio & Health Tech, and it aims to gather students and graduates in Biomedical Engineering together with companies from the sector.

Picture from last year’s meeting, held in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the UB.
Picture from last year’s meeting, held in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the UB.
Academic
13/03/2018

More than 250 students and graduates in Biomedical Engineering and more than twenty companies and institutions of the sector will take part in the second edition of the Talent Forum in Biomedical Engineering, to be held on Wednesday, March 14, at the Barcelona East School of Engineering (EEBE) of UPC, in Building A in Campus Diagonal Besòs (av. Eduard Maristany, 16, Barcelona). The activity will be organized by the UPC, the UB and UPF, together with the Spanish Federation of Healthcare Technology Companies (FENIN) and Catalonia Bio & Health Tech, and it aims to gather students and graduates in Biomedical Engineering together with companies from the sector.

The bachelorʼs degree in Biomedical Engineering, which applies the concepts, principles and methods of engineering to problem solving in biomedicine, was launched in the academic year 2009-2010 and has now five graduate promotions. This is one of the youngest engineering degrees with one of the highest university entry scores among the engineering studies that are taught in Catalonia, which is over 12.

Also, the sector of biomedical engineering has become a strategic socioeconomic activity with a great impact on modern medicine. According to the Informe sectorial de biotecnologia i biomedicina (sectorial report on biotechnology and biomedicine), conducted in 2013 by Barcelona Activa, the sector of medical technology accounts for a global business amount of 187,000 million euros, and Europe gathers a 33% out of that, with an annual growth rate of 5%. Catalonia accounts for the 40 % of the Spanish market, with a business volume of about 1,200 million euros.

In this sense, Biomedical Engineering Graduates are essential in the development and innovation of the healthcare technology sector, with an interdisciplinary training that brings the knowledge and skills of engineering with those of medicine.

This forum has the support of the Employment Service of Catalonia (Servei dʼOcupació de Catalunya, SOC) of Generalitat de Catalunya.