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Last week, 4-6 November, the 22nd Infocom World 2020 conference took place. The conference dealt with the challenges, opportunities and changes that 5G technology brings. It was titled “Transforming Greece: The 5G and Fiber Enablers – The Future is Now!”. During this conference, partners from BigO got the opportunity to contribute with a presentation and…

Saterday 7 November (11.00-15.30 CET) a presentation is organized, called: “Schools as sites for Food System Transformation”. This event is organized in the context of the Open Classroom Conference 2020 “New challenges for school change”. Which is aiming to highlight the concept of Open School Culture. The goal of the session is to explore new…

BigO is still recruiting new schools to join the project. Therefore, the number of citizen scientists contributing to the BigO program keeps increasing. At this moment, 5000 citizen scientists are registered in the MyBigO app. These citizen scientists come from all over Europe. In total, 74% of the children are from Greece and 24% from…

A new scientific publication on the use of a smartphone app for monitoring dietary habits in the journal JMIR mHealth and uHealth. The paper is titled, “Formative Evaluation of a Smartphone App for Monitoring Daily Meal Distribution and Food Selection in Adolescents: Acceptability and Usability Study”. This study aimed to evaluate a newly developed mHealth…

On 9-11 October the 13th State of the Art Adolescent Health/Medicine Course took place. BigO got the opportunity to contribute to this virtual conference. The oral presentation given, was titled, “BigO: Collecting Big Data with the use of New Technologies for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence-A Clinical Study in Greece”.…

Last week, the Department of Nutrition & Dietetics of the International University of Greece organized the 13th Macedonian Conference on Nutrition and Dietetics. More than 500 delegates attended this online conference. The first day of the conference, Christos Diou presented the BigO project. He discussed the methods and prospects of BigO for use in public…

Begin September, the European and International Congress on Obesity took place in the form of an online interactive event. During this conference, BigO had the opportunity to present several e-posters. Including a poster about the app itself, titled: “The BigO application: usability and engagement among adolescents and children with obesity”. This e-poster discusses the BigO…

Last week, the European and International Congress on Obesity took place in the form of an online interactive event. During this conference, BigO had the opportunity to present four e-posters. Including the following: “BigO: Novel technologies for the management of childhood obesity – The case of a clinical study in Greece”. The e-poster discusses the overall…

On 1-4 september, the European and International Conference on Obesity 2020 takes place. One of the BigO partners, Grace O’Malley from University College Dublin, is co-hosting this online conference. During ECOICO2020, BigO has the opportunity to present the following e-posters: For further information on the conference, you can click here to visit the website and…