Ben je docent, onderzoeker, student of op een andere manier geïnteresseerd in onze samenwerking? Elke maand organiseert een van onze programma’s een bijeenkomst over onderzoek en onderwijs van de EWUU alliantie. Je kunt moeiteloos deelnemen via Teams, pak je lunch, en dompel je onder in deze lunchlezing van 45 minuten.

Deze Lunchlezing staat in het teken van the EWUU Institute for Preventive Health.

Co-Creation as a Bridge Between Real-Life Needs and Technological Possibilities
In this session we will explore together how co-creation and participatory research can help connect digital health innovations with people’s real needs, contexts, and lived experiences. The session draws on insights from the LIFTS project, which promotes a sustainable healthy lifestyle among young people with lower literacy levels in practical education. A distinctive element of LIFTS is its use of four living labs where students, parents, teachers, carers, designers, policymakers, and researchers work together. 

What to expect 
Four PhD candidates of the LIFTS project will share their work on different dimensions of the LIFTS project: 

• Simone Ooms (Utrecht University): on how the mental health of students in practical education can be promoted, and how technology can contribute to a fitting and effective intervention. 
• Daniëlla van Uden (Wageningen University & Research): on how students in practical education can be meaningfully involved in research and how innovations can be sustainably implemented in schools. 
• Madelief Engels (Wageningen University & Research): on how technology can support healthier and more sustainable eating behaviour among students in practical education. 
• Maria Inês Ribeiro (Eindhoven University of Technology): on how personalised and AI-supported digital tools can encourage physical activity, co-designed with students and schools. 

The session starts with a short introduction to LIFTS and its co-creation approach, followed by discussion and an open Q&A.