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BigO had a strong presence at the ECOG 2019 conference on November 13-16 at Katowice Poland. The conference brought together professionals from all around Europe dealing with childhood obesity and overweight. In collaboration with the ECOG’s board, BigO organized a plenary session to inform the audience around “Smart technologies and BigO data to help policy…

Last October, the International Conference On Smart Living and Public Health (ICOST 2019) took place in New York City, USA. This conference was fundamentally oriented to Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Public Health and Urban Living. On October 15, BigO was represented by Sergio Guillen, Deputy Project Coordinator of ACTIVAGE and Chief Innovation Officer of…

The clinical team from Childrens’s Health Ireland (Temple Street, Dublin) attended the FENS meeting in Dublin. FENS is the European Nutrition Conference, one of the biggest conferences on Nutrition in Europe. The team presented data from their mHealth and BigO feasibility study.

October 24th was World Anti-Obesity Day. To mark that day, teachers of 1st EPAL Kalamarias (Department of Agriculture, Food & Environment) lectured about obesity. They presented facts about obesity, for example, that it is related to several mental and physical health conditions. In addition, students were informed about the BigO project. Teachers instructed the students…

Last week, 19-21st September, the 58th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) took place in Austria. Athanasia Tragomalou (Resident in Pediatrics) was the representative of BigO and  presented an ePoster on a clinical pilot study of BigO: “BigO: The use of novel technologies for the management of childhood obesity – A…

Hello, we are five students (Dries, Naomi, Lisanne, Marije en Tessa) from Het Streek Bovenbuurtweg (Ede, The Netherlands). We are in our fourth year of pre-university education. For our O&O class we were given the assignment to put together a lesson program consisting of two lessons, based on the BigO-app. We had to give those…

On June 6th, 2019 researchers from the BigO project were present during the annual meeting of the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) in Prague. During this conference, the BigO researchers presented the project during the symposium entitled: ‘Use of Behavioural Big Data and Citizen Science to enrich scientific data on (un)healthy…

On 22-24 May, 2019, the BigO consortium partners gathered in Thessaloniki. The meeting was focused on the evaluation of data collection at the schools (EA, EKP, IEGS) and the clinics (BRFAA, Mando, TSCUH) while using the myBigO app and portals. In addition, plans were made to increase participant involvement and boost data collection in the coming…

Assistant Professor Ioannis Ioakeimidis (KI) and Professor Anastasios Delopoulos (AUTH) were invited to present in JRC’s Marketplace for Best practices in Ispra, Italy at May 14-15, 2019, focusing on behavioural analysis of eating and physical activity behaviours at schools. During the 2 day event, the two representatives had the possibility to present current advances in…