Designathon Ai in transdisciplinary research

Introduction

ECTS: 2.5 
Number of sessions: 2
Hours per session: 8 and 4

The theme of the Designathon 2025 is "Social Impact: how to make a real-world difference with your research?!"

As an emergent field, cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence technologies are evolving rapidly, with a tremendous impact on society and scholarship. Academia, however, is a notoriously slow field due to the high quality of dedicated thinking and scientific rigor. How to keep up with new developments, when research and publishing takes time and how do we adopt new ways of working? And how do we ensure that the research we do can be implemented in practice?
The skills required for this call for transdisciplinary collaboration and real-world testing and implementation. In this workshop we will work with a case study in collaboration with Changemakers consortium, using AI to better diagnose cancer. 
 

Designathon
During this full day hands-on cooking pressure session, we bring together PhD’s with various skills and expertise to collaborate on solving a specific challenge or problem within a limited time frame, using digital tools and creativity as an inspirational catalyst. Participants tackle specific issues and are challenged to look at the case study from different perspectives, get creative and share their knowledge. The designathon is hosted by an educator in collaboration with specialist co-facilitators.