Bicocca Social Innovation - Hacking Health Milano - Badge
Name
Bicocca Social Innovation - Hacking Health Milano.
Issuer
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca.
Issued since 03 October 2017.
Description
The holder of the Bicocca Social Innovation - Hacking Health Milano Badge has elected to take part in the Bicocca-Hacking Health Milano project as part of his/her studies at Milano-Bicocca University. This programme is a highly innovative career guidance project that provides learning through multidisciplinary experiences and public engagement actions. Students taking this option will have a strong interest in social and technological innovation, intellectual curiosity, and a readiness for debate and the joint implementation of expertise from different disciplines. Hacking Health is an innovative, international programme founded in Canada that in little more than two years has involved more than 7,000 people in 30 different cities across the world. It was developed as an open-innovation and co-design project in health-care, and is coordinated by the Hacking Health Milano Committee in collaboration with the Career Guidance Commission of Milano-Bicocca University (which also awards the 'Bicocca University Prize') and other partners, including Polihub, the business incubator of the Politecnico di Milano. The programme is sponsored by the City of Milan Local Authority and the Lombardy Region. The holder of this Badge has taken part regularly in programme activities and demonstrated commitment, responsibility and dedication over time. The programme involved: 3 non-consecutive Workshop days, during which multidisciplinary groups of students from various university courses were set up. Over a period of 5 months, the groups employed a psychosocial and Service Design approach in the analysis of data collected from ethnographic observations and interviews carried out in various hospitals in Lombardy. The workshops resulted in a series of co-produced materials, such as “User Journeys and “maps clusters of relevant topics and problems, and the drafting of case studies and insights; 1 day of Thematic Discussion rounds, in which participants worked jointly with doctors, patients, care-givers, designers and other actors in the health eco-system to transfer the case studies and insights into specific requests for solutions to the concrete problems that had been identified. These requests became, then, the challenges for the Hackathon; a non-stop Hackathon weekend, where multidisciplinary groups interested in a particular project idea applied a Human-Centered approach to the development of realistic proposals and devices responding to the problems specified in the challenges. The groups produced prototypes of tools or digital services responding to the needs of the health system representatives.
Badge Criteria
The Bicocca Social Innovation - Hacking Health Milan Badge is an activity Badge. It is awarded to students officially enrolled on a course at the Milano-Bicocca University who have: played an active part in the programme for at least 4 of the 6 classroom study days; completed the workgroup activities in the period between the study days and realised the goals agreed with the mentor. The number of participants is limited and may change from year to year. If the number of applicants should exceed the maximum permitted, the University will select participants on the basis of the following criteria: proportionate representation of different degree courses (in order to maintain the multidisciplinary requirement), the probability of completing the programme before graduation, and any other previously agreed parameters considered useful. Participation in the programme is free of charge and does not require any prior expertise or skills.
Skills
The holder of this Badge has demonstrated that he or she possesses and knows how to use the following SKILLS: ability to analyse problems: interpretation of complex social situations, identification of priorities and criticalities; methods to analyse and understand sets of qualitative data, such as ethnographic diaries and interviews; self-sufficient use of co-design tools and techniques for problem-solving; use of contemporary digital and other communication and representation languages; In addition, the holder of this Badge has shown a practical command of the following SOFT SKILLS: multidisciplinary team-working, including with professional partners; relational and problem-solving capabilities; personal and professional design-thinking and goal-focus; ability to mediate and identify common positions; individual and group empowerment. The holder of this Badge has also acquired KNOWLEDGE regarding: methodologies of participative research and public engagement; the importance of technology and digital systems in the integration of learning from different disciplines; the benefits of a multidisciplinary and team view of health and care issues; the value of “bottom-up solutions to complex social problems; the importance of investing in personal and collective design-thinking in a Life Design approach; the significance of teamwork (interdisciplinary, intergeneration, interethnic) to generate social innovation.
Tags
Socialinnovation, HackingHealth, Multidisciplinaryapproach