Sprint projects

The Healthy Start Sprint projects are short term high impact projects, financed by the Healthy Starters Fund. Healthy Start invited researchers and their external partners in 2023 to submit proposals for projects that foster societal impact or educational innovation related to the six Healthy Start ambitions. These ideas varied from podcast to theatre production and from co-creation labs to VR.

Unmasked

A Gamified Solution to Study Pornographic Stereotypes

Developing a prototype of a mother’s milk preparation robot

A robot to assist nurses and nurse assistants in a safe and accurate preparation of mother’s milk.

NeoHomeMotion

Secure Home-Based Assessment of Infant General Movements, for Early Detection of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Poverty

From stigma to expertise

Touching Minds

Bridging Research, Art, and Outreach with 3D-Printed Brain MRIs

Promoting a sociotechnical approach toward adolescent relationships and sexuality in the digital age

A transdisciplinary collaboration toward scientific and societal agenda setting.

From coffee bean to improved preterm breath

Overcoming barriers to caffeine access in Sub-Saharan
Africa

Telecare together

Improving Pediatric Palliative and End of Life Care at home.

Virtual Reality for Resilience

Understanding Multi-Problem Youth’s Priorities in Using VR to Train Social Skills and Resistance to Criminal Behavior, Aggression, and Substance Abuse

Enhancing well-being and personal development for medical students

Promoting equity and sustainable employability

PISA study

Accessibility of mental healthcare is poor, with substantial waiting lists for youth with suicidal thoughts.

Cradled in Safety

New life is fragile. While every newborn is at risk for a life-threatening bacterial infection (sepsis), some carry particular risk.

Play it, Move it, Improve it

Towards a novel approach for physical therapy at the children’s hospital: integrating Mixed Reality makes physical therapy more engaging and enjoyable.

SPARK

In this transformative project, convergence researchers, children (aged 8-12 years) and (mental) health care professionals explore three important challenges of child participation in research.

AI- based Digital Health Assistants

We will co-create an ethically legitimate LLM prototype digital health assistant that can support youth in healthy behaviors and essential skills, and provide crucial knowledge on Inclusive Human-Centric AI for youth mental health.