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On the 23th of January, the Karolinska Institutet held a poster presentation on the BigO project during the matchmaking event for Stockholm’s Food Sustainability Network.  This event was coordinated by KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The workshop included Swedish food enterprises and start-ups, public health authorities, policy makers and scientific personnel. All of these…

On October 3rd, 2019, Ellinogermaniki Agogi (EA) hosted around 60 first year students from the Palio Psychico High School at EA premises along with a group of accompanying teachers. During the 3.5 hours visit EA had the opportunity to present a group of innovative educational activities to the students. In addition, they discussed the participation…

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Professor Evangelia Charmandari of the Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens was an invited speaker at the 3rd International Congress on Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Diagnosis and Therapy on the 10th of January. The conference was organized by the Hellenic Society of Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Diagnosis and Therapy (EEPHARM). Prof. Evangelia Charmandari presented on ‘Novel e-health applications…

A new school joined the BigO adventure. In November and December, the NTI gymnasiet in Uppsala organized a student project using the myBigO app. NTI is an IT high school where students have a focus on technology and natural sciences, therefore, the project focused on the app and its use in research. The teachers asked…

Students from IEGS helped researchers to identify food advertisements in neighborhoods in Stockholm as citizen scientists. All advertisements in two areas of Stockholm (Skärholmen and Östermalm) were captured by the use of the BigO mobile phone technology. The data collection was done together with students and teachers from Internationella Engelska Gymnasieskolan Södermalm (IEGS). Petter Fagerberg, who is doing his Ph.D. work in the context of the BigO project explains his work that is now published in a highly ranked scientific journal. This is the first scientific paper that is based on data collected in a citizen scientist project at a participating @school.

Leandros Stefanopoulos from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki presented his newest paper about BigO at the MobiHealth Coference. This International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare took place on November 14 and 15 in Dublin.

4th grade primary school students from the Ellinogermaniki Agogi school in Athens participate in the BigO project. The students wear smartwatches that record their physical activity and sleep duration. At the same time students record their meals for two weeks on specially formatted log sheets and take pictures of them. After collecting all the data, they are discussed in class.

Since the start of BigO program in schools and clinics, the number of students contributing to the program and the amount of collected data has increased significantly. Children and adolescences from Greece, Sweden and Ireland have been asked to take pictures of meals they consume and food advertisements they encounter. Furthermore, steps and activity counts per geographic location or “geohash” are measured and visualized.